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