The Disability Of Stuttering

By: Steve Hill
Submitted: 2007-01-17 16:43:25
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Do you know anybody who has a speech impediment? Do you have a speech impediment yourself? Would you consider a stutter to be a form of disability? Are you looking for a solution to your speech impediment? In this article I am going to write about the ways in which a stutter can affect a persons life and make it one huge struggle.

I am not sure how many people would class stuttering as a form of disability but I certainly would. After suffering with this form of speech impediment for eighteen years I am aware just how soul destroying it can be to life life with a stutter.

For me personally, having a stutter caused me many a sleepless night. I would be lying in bed and would be basically worrying that I would find it hard to communicate on the next day. I had a huge fear of stuttering and about how other people would react at the times when I did stutter. I often yearned to be fluent and dreamed that one day I would be able to somehow find a cure for stuttering that would enable me to talk fluently.

I would try so hard not to stutter and had many ways of coping with this horrible speech impediment. At the time I had a saying which was that I would do anything to avoid stuttering. This would at times lead me to making a fool of myself. For example when I was about fourteen years of age we had a class quiz at school. It was just a simple general quiz but you wanted to do well for your house team. The problem for me was that it was a quick fire quiz where I was going to be put on the spot. I sat nervously waiting for my turn to arrive and was hoping that my answer would be a word that I was confident of being able to say.

Eventually my turn came, what is the capital of France? Now I knew the answer of course but a voice in my head was telling me that I would not be able to say it. I had a slight panic and ended up by saying that I did not know. Lots of people started to laugh at me which of course was not very nice but this is an example of where I would prefer to look stupid rather than stutter.

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