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How I’m overcoming my stuttering Hey everyone. Since I was born I have a stutter and I hate it, it’s so frustrating.. I have gone to many speech therapists but I feel that I don’t improve anything and that is a waste of money. Actually I’m 17 and the last year I started to have a more serious approach to my stutter. I have read about Demosthenes. If you don’t know him, he was a Greek orator borned in 384 a. C. of a middle-high class but his father died when he was only 7. His tutors then went away with all his money. As a teenager, he was fascinated by a speech made by an orator of the time and found his vocation. Although having a stutter, he was determined to accomplish his goal and trained very hard. He locked himself in a basement made by himself to read books and speeches sometimes with pebbles in his mouth until there was no sunlight. When the sun was rising, he went on running along the beach reciting his speeches as hard as he could. He did routine for two years and then he became the best orator of his time. Was so great indeed, that he is considered the best orator in the history. I was so inspired when I read this that when quarantine lockdown started I tried to do the same. I was in room reading book out loud for at first with breaks of 15 minutes. Then of 30 min. Then of 1 hour and now I’m reading 2 hours straight forward twice. So a day I’m reading 4 hours out loud. Also I’m trying to go on running and to recite out loud a fragment of a book that I have memorized. I have been doing this for almost 4 months and I think it’s kinda working. I always have weeks when my stutter is worse and weeks when is better but now I feel that It’s not that bad than before. I’m very extroverted and love to have plans and meeting new people so I view this as a transcitory struggle. I would love to hear your replies and how your are overcoming your stutter.