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Hello, I stutter! So I started to listen to a few episodes of Stutter Talk and I had a not so subtle revelation: * **Going covert with my stutter, hiding it, substituting (circumlocution) or silence was getting me nowhere.** Sometimes I’d even let my stutter show but go covert or do the standard “tricks” to avoid who I am. Not only were those things getting me no where they were making my life so much worse. I no longer want to be a "partial stutterer" or one who hides his stutter. Simply, *I stutter*. End of story. I’ve been giving a seven letter word overwhelming power of my life. As long as I was doing anything but being my authentic self with my stutter intact I was giving people reason to dislike my stutter (even if they weren’t hearing it) because I disliked it and was ashamed of it! So, I’ve dropped the nonsense for a few days now. No covert stuttering, hiding or substituting. It has been freeing and I feel more open to others than I have been before!