I’m back!

After a couple of years unconnected, I’m back.

Unfortunately, this is a common scenario in a stutterer life. Other subjects get more priority than stuttering until you become aware once more of its hindering effects. Anyway…

During this time, I’ve read interesting things on NLP (neuro-linguistic programming), psychology and stuttering therapies which may be useful on this new stage.

Particularly, I would like to follow the long-term objective of becoming a fluent stutterer in my 40s. This gives me a few years to improve my techniques!

See you here!

Mobile coverage problems – apparently

During mobile phone conversations with people which don’t know I stutter, sometimes these people interpret blockages or speech lags with shortage of mobile coverage.

Despite this can be quite unpleasant, I’ve found it offers several opportunities:

• It can be used as a way of increasing awareness on your speech during the rest of conversation. Therefore, it is a signal to stop…relax….and take control.
• You can tell the other person you stutter, supporting acceptance of stuttering as something natural and a part of you.
• Other person feedback can be used as feedback for you performance. However, I plan not to confuse feedback with trying to hide I stutter as it can increase tension.

Hope you find these useful!

Welcome to my blog!

This blog is intended to support me in the process of confronting and accepting my stuttering. Additionally, it may provide others insight on certain aspects of this complex and obscure speech disorder.

I use to stutter since I can remember and, despite some great advances after taking therapy ten years ago, it is an unsolved issue deeply affecting my self-steem and self-confidence.

I’ll try to use this blog to record experiences, organise useful resources, plan activities and, specially, force me reflect on what I’m attempting. I expect this will help me to learn faster and be more effective on my approch.