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From: Anita
Date: 18 Oct 2006
Time: 16:14:12 -0500
Remote Name: 81.228.218.44
You make a good point here. That's exactly why our problem is so complex. When you're blind, you're blind. The person you meet doesn't make your blindness better or worse. But with stuttering it's a totally different thing. Your reaction can make me stutter more (or less. A high noise level makes me stutter more. A sudden situation can put my speech on hold completely. Therefor a blind man in our group says he would rather speak fluently than have his vision, as he learned how to live in a dark world, which is constant, but he cannot cope with his speech which is unpredictable. As some people say: "I don't stutter when I sing." I can make a speech on stage with hundreds of people and all kinds of media around me and don't stutter a single word, but as soon as I leave the stage I stutter like never before. That doesn't seem to make any sense, but those are facts. That's why stuttering is so hard to treat, understand and cope with. Do let me know if I still don't make sense. Not even we can understand it... Anita