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From: Peter Reitzes
Date: 21 Oct 2006
Time: 15:29:53 -0500
Remote Name: 69.22.238.4
Heather, thanks so much for writing. You ask what term I prefer. The best and only answer to that question is, “It depends.” Now having said that, for clients, I personally prefer whatever is best and most productive for them. For myself, I like, “stutterer”, “person who stutters,” I have a stutter,” “former covert stutterer”, etc. When I first began fully and actively facing stuttering in my early twenties, it was important to me that I was a stutterer as well as a person who stutters because using these terms meant that I finally accepted and admitted to having a stuttering problem. I needed to strongly and openly identify with this thing that I did that I was so ashamed of. At this point in my life I also like other terms such as “I have a stutter.” Hope this helps. Peter