| Do you know anybody who has a speech | | | | |
| impediment? Do you have a speech impediment | | | | I would try so hard not to stutter and had |
| yourself? Would you consider a stutter to be | | | | many ways of coping with this horrible speech |
| a form of disability? Are you looking for a | | | | impediment. At the time I had a saying which |
| solution to your speech impediment? In this | | | | was that I would do anything to avoid |
| article I am going to write about the ways in | | | | stuttering. This would at times lead me to |
| which a stutter can affect a persons life and | | | | making a fool of myself. For example when I |
| make it one huge struggle. | | | | was about fourteen years of age we had a |
| | | | class quiz at school. It was just a simple |
| I am not sure how many people would class | | | | general quiz but you wanted to do well for |
| stuttering as a form of disability but I | | | | your house team. The problem for me was that |
| certainly would. After suffering with this | | | | it was a quick fire quiz where I was going to |
| form of speech impediment for eighteen years | | | | be put on the spot. I sat nervously waiting |
| I am aware just how soul destroying it can be | | | | for my turn to arrive and was hoping that my |
| to life life with a stutter. | | | | answer would be a word that I was confident |
| | | | of being able to say. |
| For me personally, having a stutter caused me | | | | |
| many a sleepless night. I would be lying in | | | | Eventually my turn came, what is the capital |
| bed and would be basically worrying that I | | | | of France? Now I knew the answer of course |
| would find it hard to communicate on the next | | | | but a voice in my head was telling me that I |
| day. I had a huge fear of stuttering and | | | | would not be able to say it. I had a slight |
| about how other people would react at the | | | | panic and ended up by saying that I did not |
| times when I did stutter. I often yearned to | | | | know. Lots of people started to laugh at me |
| be fluent and dreamed that one day I would be | | | | which of course was not very nice but this is |
| able to somehow find a cure for stuttering | | | | an example of where I would prefer to look |
| that would enable me to talk fluently. | | | | stupid rather than stutter. |