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From: Lou Heite
Date: 09 Oct 2006
Time: 21:47:58 -0500
Remote Name: 24.237.249.158
It's most fair for people to define success for themselves, but each culture also has a paradigm for success that the great majority of people in that culture pretty much agree with. Moreover, people can be variously successful depending on which yardstick they happen to pick up on any given day. I suspect that the percentage of successful persons who stutter is fairly high and probably not very different from any other definable population - depending on what you measure by. Since a huge portion of the expected population of stutterers in the US is outside of the reach of stuttering organizations and therapy, one can only guess about how many of them are happy with their lives. The thing that I wanted to bring out in this article, though, is that by standards that experts, mostly in sociology and psychology, have adopted to distinguish between oppression and (hm) bad luck or whininess for want of a better term quickly, the population of stutterers generally does meet the criteria for being an oppressed group.