Is Stuttering a Disability?

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Terrrrrific Speech!

From: Russ Hicks
Date: 02 Oct 2006
Time: 00:07:59 -0500
Remote Name: 71.252.204.114

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Hiya Beautiful! ..... Gosh you get better lookin' every time I see your picture Anita! ..... Outstanding speech! I wish I could have been to the IFA conference to hear it! Maybe one day I'll make it across The Pond... ..... We're really working with a Catch 22 on this disability issue. Most of us (and you and I are included, along with people like Alan Badmington) who can really campaign for disability rights, realize that stuttering is no longer a disability FOR US. Therefore the more capable we become to campaign, the less credible we become on the issue. Alan can stand up and talk perfectly fluently for hours and tell stories about how awful it WAS, but people simply have to BELIEVE what he says about his crippling disability. Even with my own obvious stuttering, it's quite clear that I am far from disabled. To demonstrate how truly disabling stuttering can really be, you have to persuade the most reluctant people to demonstrate what they fear most. "Go ahead and pick up that snake!" they tell me. "We need you to show people how scared you are of doing that!" Are you out of your ----ing mind? NO WAY am I gonna do that! ..... Lots of good food for thought there, Anita! Great paper! ..... I'll buy you a beer in Atlanta! ..... Russ ..... PS, read Ellen-Marie Silverman's ISAD paper entitled "Mind Matters" on a very interesting concept on Experience and Beliefs. That may help explain how some of us are truly disabled and some of us clearly are not. "It's all in your mind..."


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