Anybody Who Has To Live Life With A Stammer Will Know Just How Much Of A Hinderance It Can Make What Fluent People See As Simple Tasks. Making A Phone Call, Ordering A Drink, Going Out With Friends And Attending A Job Interview Can Be Very Hard For People Who Stammer Or Stutter. My Name Is Steve Hill And I Am One Of These People Who Have Had To Endure The Affects Of Stammering. I Am Now Very Happy To Report That I Have Been Fluent For The Last Ten Years And Life Has Never Been So Good.I Was Never Willing To Accept My Stammer Despite What Many Other So Called Stammering Experts Said. These People Wanted Me To Stop Fighting And To Realise That I Would Live With The Stammer For The Rest Of My Life. In Their Eyes If I Accepted This Fact It Would Be A Lot Easier For Me To Cope. These Experts Are Fluent People And It Is Easy For Them To Say. Throughout My Life I Have Tried To Improve Especially In The Areas That I Was Not Happy About. For Me Stammering Was The Ultimate Problem In My Life And I Was Certain That I Would Continue My Search For A Cure For The Rest Of My Life. There Was No Way I Was Going To Ever Accept It. Whenever Anybody Says To Me That A Particular Thing Can Not Be Achieved, I Always Think Of This As A Very Negative Approach. I Have Now Decided To Try And Avoid These Negative Type People As They Are The Ones Who Are Weak And I Do Want Them To Have Any Influence On My Life, As They Can Easily If I Am Not Careful Bring Me Down To Their Level.I Found Stammering To Be A Very Frustrating Problem. At Times I Could Actually Speak Quite Well, For Example After I Had Drank Quite A Lot Of Alcohol. I Was Able To Talk Well To One Person But Not To Another. For Many Years I Could Not Work Out Why This Was. To Find Some Answers I Attended Speech Therapy At Various Points In My Life. Unfortunately These People Did Not Have The Required Information To Help Me. My Search For A Cure For Stammering Would Have To Continue In A Different Place.My Advice For Anybody Who Has A Stammer Is To Never Give Up Or Accept Your Stammer. This Is In A Way Accepting Second Best Which Is Exactly What I Did When I Had A Stammer. I Had To Accept Second Best In My Work, Social And Even Love Life As Having A Stammer Made Me Believe That I Could Do No Better.
