I Am Someone, Who From What My Parents Have Told Me, Started To Stutter When I Was Four Years Of Age. I Have To Say That I Hated Having A Stuttering Problem And Was Determined That I Eventually Would Be Able To Have The Confidence To Say Whichever Words That I Wanted To, In Any Situation. There Were You See A Number Of Words Which I Believed I Just Could Not Say And I Also Found It Difficult To Talk When I Felt Under Pressure. After Living With The Stutter For Eighteen Years, I Finally Managed To Achieve Fluency And Life Has Never Been So Good. It Is Like Having A Weight Lifted From My Shoulders.Many People Who Stutter Find That It Can, In A Way, Rule Their Whole Lives. Every Decision They Take Seems To Be Affected By The Speech Impediment. For Example, I Decided To Leave School Because Of My Own Stutter. My Life At School Was Made So Much Harder By Being Unable To Converse Fluently. In Fact I Used To Fear Going To School, This Was Mainly Because I Was Scared That I Would Be Asked To Read Out Aloud From A Book Or Would Be Asked A Question In Front Of The Whole Class. I Will Never Forget When I Attempted To Take Part In A Role Play In An English Lesson, I Was A Complete Nervous Wreck And Had A Terrible Time.When I Was At Home, A Place Where I Should Be Relaxed, I Used To Be Afraid Of The Telephone Of All Things. Fluent People May Well Think That I Am Crazy From Some Of The Things That I Am Admitting To In This Article. On The Other Hand, I Am Sure Other People Who Have A Stutter May Identify With Some Of The Issues That I Was Trying To Deal With On A Daily Basis. Going Back To The Telephone, There Were Many Times When The Phone Would Start To Ring And I Would Just Ignore It And Not Answer It. My Parents Would Return Home A Little While Later And Would See That Someone Has Perhaps Left A Message. They Would Enquire As To Why I Had Not Answered The Call, I Would Reply With Some Excuse Such As That I Had Popped Out To The Shops.As You Can See I Basically Had A Fear Of Stuttering And During This Period I Would Do Anything To Avoid Stuttering. To Overcome The Speech Impediment I Was Willing To Do Anything To Beat It.
