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From: Bobby Childers
Date: 10/11/01
Time: 9:32:39 PM
Remote Name: 216.234.193.91
Bernie: What you are saying is very true, but many people (like myself) don't have the access to stuttering support groups. The one at the college fizzled out, partly I think because I didn't help push it along. Last spring I was working 70-80 hours a week, and finishing out my last semester of college, so "free time" was somewhat non-existent.
Now that I'm in graduate school, with less school hours, I'm still rather swamped, but have more time now and no support group. That is why I rely on the Stuttering Listservs, and are trying to "do it on my own".
I have even checked in El Paso, Texas (40 miles away) and it is town of almost 700,000 with no stuttering support group either. Part of the Southwestern mode of thinking, tends to be "self-support".
That is why I said that stutterers need to learn to rely on themselves. Many times there won't be a support group nearby (or via the Internet) to get moral support.