Everyone knows that living with a stutter isn’t easy...
Getting embarrassed in front of friends…
New friends plus coworkers and classmates is not fun...
Especially because a stutter is something so wildly misunderstood.
Most people don’t understand or take the time to understand the problem. Lots of people make it seem like an inconvenience or even like gaining extra weight. As if your stutter is something that can just be burned off through ‘exercise’ and then come back when you don’t control your mind or environment...
The funny thing is that I thought it was something I would live with for the rest of my life...
I can remember walking out of my speech therapy being so bummed to go into another week of weird exercise and come back with the smallest or non-existent improvements. That’s also what I have been told by the experts at a young age too. That your stutter was something that you would have to live with for the rest of your life no matter what you do...
It wasn’t until getting the right information from the right people that i really began to change my stutter and my life.
Ever since I was a kid until about the age of 20, I had been listening to people who just wanted to keep me stammering and who did not know how to truly help my speech...