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I am 17 and from the Czech Republic

From: Marie
Date: 10/12/00
Time: 8:29:43 AM
Remote Name: 134.29.30.79

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I am 17 and from the Czech Republic. I`ve been stuttering for 11 years now. What an awful number! I hate it. Now it is very bad. It`s never been so bad before. I can`t say a sentence without stupid sounds coming out of my mouth. I cannot stop them. Sometimes I feel like suffociating. My granparents told me to stop those embrassing sounds and stutter freely. I couldn`t say a word, somehow managed to squeeze my lips into a polite smile and quickly walked away, bursting into tears. Other people tell me to arrange the words in my mind before I start to say something. That really annoyes me. For goodness sake - I know EXACTLY what I want to say. They also say: ,,Take a deep breath." That doesn`t help either. I breathe in deeply - and the lot of air gets stuck and can`t go out with the words. Well, people surely don`t mean it badly. It`s my fault, that I don`t (and can`t) explain them, how things are.

Do you have any advice for me?

Marie


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