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From: Susan Kenney
Date: 10/21/01
Time: 10:55:57 PM
Remote Name: 206.131.149.11
Thank-you for sharing your very personal and informative story! The lesson you shared about it never being to late to change is so true, and we all can learn from that quote! It is my and many people’s belief that fluency is so much more than the absence of stuttering. We may forget at times, but we are so much more than our stuttering.
My question to you is that since you learned techniques as a child to cover up your stuttering so well, and then learned so much at the NSA convention as an adult, would you have been to willing to except the things that you learned at the NSA convention if you had learned them as a child? Another way of stating my same question is the acceptance learned at the NSA convention would have saved you from the exhaustion and hard work of being a covert stutterer, but would you have been ready/mature enough to understand and except yourself as a person who openly stutters as a child rather than learning to be a covert stutterer? Though stuttering therapy is a personal choice, I hope all who are searching see the light!