Stuttering - A Life-Altering Condition [Part 1]


If you feel like laughing at her, imagine first how you would cope with this speech impediment that influences your daily life. I must admit her speech may sound quite unlikely to you if you have never heard a severe stutterer talking. The stuttering has nothing to do with her intelligence or the way she thinks. It's a neurological condition that makes people stutter.Although I am a moderate stutterer who has times when he speaks absolutely fluent I have still problems dealing with my impediment. I think the most disturbing thing stutterers have to face with are all the people who think of you as a mentally retarded person and turn away from you because of that. Many people do this because they don't know how to react when their conversational partner starts stuttering. My advice is that you should tell them that you don't mind their stuttering. Usually this releases their tension and their speech becomes more fluent.

I saw some videos on Youtube that make fun of stuttering and I read very malicious comments by people who treat stuttering as a joke. I wonder if those would laugh at people sitting in wheel chairs too. Stuttering is very similar to that because a paraplegic person wants to walk, but is not able to do that and a stutterer wants to talk fluently, but he cannot. So, it's a pretty frustrating issue and most stutterers have to deal with it for their whole lives.

The most difficult challenges stutterers have to take up:

1. Introducing themselves

2. Giving oral presentations

3. Talking on the phone

4. Meeting new people

5. Getting a decent job

The most important point is that stuttering is usually not the only problem in their lives.







Channel: Education
Uploaded: October 12, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Author: Biochips1

Length: 00:03:33
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bluethyme (November 14, 2008 at 12:13 am)
hey i used to stutter. i'm not sure if I still do, now that I think of it. I know that I can't talk fast though.
yungtrucker16 (November 8, 2008 at 12:22 am)
lol...hell yea i try that too...an jus say shit....like"shit, whats yo name girl" lol
RealDefentertainment (November 7, 2008 at 11:12 pm)
yung tru-tru shit trucker lol
just playing but thats what i do jus put fuck and slowing down is a good way too
you ever try that? if not you need to
yungtrucker16 (November 7, 2008 at 9:10 pm)
me too..i say shit b4 i say a sentence
RealDefentertainment (November 5, 2008 at 2:42 pm)
Oh shit i`ve stuttered since 2nd grade too.
Everyone who stutter gave their own trick to reduce it
My is: I have letters I can`t say stright out i.e H so i say the word Fuck b4 that
Even my mom don`t get made cos she knows
frediscool1243 (November 5, 2008 at 7:02 am)
shes so hott!
CheckeredLadybug (October 29, 2008 at 11:36 am)
She is a great girl. Shame to all who laugh at her.
She is amazing.
fridayschild66 (October 19, 2008 at 11:38 pm)
Cool gal! :o) Interesting post, brave to be interviewed like that, good luck to her I say. I'm sure she'll go far.

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