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From: A.B. -The person who wrote the email
Date: 14 Oct 2006
Time: 15:01:34 -0500
Remote Name: 65.26.35.73
Hi Louise and Russ, I am the person who posted that email on STUTT-L, with which you opened the paper. Louise, excellent paper indeed. What appealed to me more that it is so much realistic and pragmatically presented! Two thumbs up! Russ, as always I do appreciate the support I get from all the wonderful members of STUTT-L group. I however am curiously intrigued by a question, why do you think that "this person" ( me of course :-)...) has a "major identification problem"? Please help me out here by elaborating more on it. I for one, do not think likewise. Don't worry I am not at all offended by it, but certainly do not agree with it either. You quoted a few sentences, but do they really give a complete picture? By saying this, are we not stereotyping a stutterer? As I perceive, when it comes to defining a person, who has identification crisis/problem (may be I am wrong! :D)- is not able to identify with the real "himself"/"herself". Who runs away from the reality. I believe I am a level headed individual, who realizes what he is and what he is not. I never had the pretense of a covert stutterer who would go to any heights to pass off as a non-stutterer, neither did I let the stuttering influence my career choice. My SLP finds me a very outgoing person and puts me into the rare category of PWS clients, who showed no reservations or inhibitions, when asked to perform the therapy tasks the stutterers cringe at. So what I believe is, Yes I have a pessimistic outlook and am not an irreparable optimist like you <GRIN> (-and this is an innocent complement!) but identification problem I have not! If you think I really do, then I am open to a frank discussion. Best regards, A.B. P.S. :One would wonder why then I am not writing my full name? I do not hide from anyone the fact that I stutter. But the rest of the content of the email(suicidal tendencies) that point to me, I certainly do not wish be found out at a single google click by a prospective employer. Yes I still am unemployed.