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It Was a Great Day In light of a fair amount of the content here being, understandably, bleak I wanted to share a great day. For months I’ve been preparing a large presentation to give to a client and contractors associated with the project and needless to say I was nervous. However, over the last 2 weeks or so a wave of exhaustion hit me. Not exhaustion from the daily blocks, repetitive sounds, and the silly things my face does trying to start a sentence. I was exhausted from devoting so much energy to it. I suppose the cost of decades of stress, the memories of being mocked and dismissed, and evolving fluency struggles was finally due. Simply put, enough was enough. I did that presentation and did an exceptional job. It wasn’t flawless but that was never the goal. I used the only voice I have and I spoke to a room full of people waiting to hear to what I had to say. And for the first time in a while I was proud of myself. All of our journeys are different and the level of complexity varies to a staggering degree but there is at least one common thread; this is our one and only voice and we should never stop using it.