The Handicap Of Stammering
- Date: 2007-07-22 - Word Count: 312
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Having a stammer can have a hugely negative affect on one's life. Stammering, which is also known as stuttering, affects around one percent of the population in the UK, with seven out of ten people who stammer being male. I was one of these such people but I have now managed to eradicate this form of speech impediment from my life once and for all. It took a long time to overcome it but in the end the rewards are there for all to see. In this article I will be writing about the ways in which the stammer affected my life.
Growing up I wanted to have a special jumper knitted which could have the answers to some of the main questions that I would regularly be asked.
"What is your name?"
"Which football team do you support?"
"Where do you live?"
"Where do you work?"
For some unknown reason I always seemed to struggle to answer these questions, it would often result in me stammering on one or more of the words. It led to becoming a kind of fear and phobia of mine. If I met a new person I would begin to worry that he/she might ask what my name is and if they did I would then become tongue tied.
The worst area of my speech was when using the telephone. I am not sure as to why this should be as I often could not look at people in the eyes when I was speaking to them face to face, this was perhaps due to my lack of overall confidence. I was so scared of talking on the telephone that I would rather drive to one of my friends houses instead of phoning them. I would rarely answer the phone at home and would instead just let somebody else answer it.
As you can see, life can be quite tough for people who stammer.
Growing up I wanted to have a special jumper knitted which could have the answers to some of the main questions that I would regularly be asked.
"What is your name?"
"Which football team do you support?"
"Where do you live?"
"Where do you work?"
For some unknown reason I always seemed to struggle to answer these questions, it would often result in me stammering on one or more of the words. It led to becoming a kind of fear and phobia of mine. If I met a new person I would begin to worry that he/she might ask what my name is and if they did I would then become tongue tied.
The worst area of my speech was when using the telephone. I am not sure as to why this should be as I often could not look at people in the eyes when I was speaking to them face to face, this was perhaps due to my lack of overall confidence. I was so scared of talking on the telephone that I would rather drive to one of my friends houses instead of phoning them. I would rarely answer the phone at home and would instead just let somebody else answer it.
As you can see, life can be quite tough for people who stammer.
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