If you have difficulties with your speech, you are not alone. Latest figures state that over one percent of people in the UK suffer with a stutter or stammer. This article describes the effects that stuttering can have on a persons life. I am somebody who has overcome a stutter or what some people call a stammer that had basically ruined my life for eighteen years. At the age of twenty two, I decided that it was time to attempt to achieve fluency. After nearly a year of working very hard, I managed to overcome the stutter once and for all. Stuttering affects people in different ways, however these were the aspects of life I found difficult: Introducing people Ordering food or drinks Speaking on the telephone Attending interviews Trying to attract a girlfriend Socialising with friends or family In general the stutter made me accept second best in life and made life a huge struggle. I found stuttering a disability and was forever looking for ways at beating the stutter. I attended speech therapy from the age of four or five. My attitude was possibly not what it should have been, in my own mind I always believed that they could not truly understand what I was going through as thay themselves had never had a stutter. |
