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From: Gary J. Rentschler
Date: 09 Oct 2005
Time: 18:40:01 -0500
Remote Name: 151.201.249.117
Meghan - hope you are enjoying your SLP program in NY (my home state). Your question is excellent... leanring to accept that you stutter is a core element in overcoming its potentially devasting effects. But embracing the part of you that provides so much embarrasment is very difficult and some people never reach that point. However, once you do you usually need to realign much of your thinking.. for me, I learned that when someone didn't like me it was rarely because of my stuttering, and almost always about some other part of me that I, personally, didn't really care that much about. I learned that the only person holding me back from doing what I wanted to do was me, not my stuttering. I was my own biggest handicap! And I found that my stuttering was a far bigger issue for me than it was for just about anyone else. I've created a website for my students working with me in the stuttering clinic where I teach... hope you might be interested in checking it out.. www.stuttering.duq.edu Best of luck, thanks for writing. :-)