Stuttering – Don’t Let it Hold You Back
by Darrenell, 8th grade Milwaukee, WI
Stuttering isn’t that important. You shouldn’t make a big deal over it because you can save yourself from stuttering. If you put in the effort you will succeed. I honestly don’t think that stuttering is that big of a deal. I achieved what I thought I would never overcome. You should never give up or think that you’re not important or valued.
Scientists don’t exactly know why people stutter. Despite this, I know that if you talk fast either your mouth or your mind won’t be able to keep up with you. Sometimes you talk too fast. I used to come to speech twice a week and people made fun of me, but I never cared about what the people said about me. If I cared about what people had said about me I would have never accomplished anything. I came a long way because I was constantly stuttering.
When I stuttered, I honestly thought that I was the only one who stuttered. I wouldn’t talk to anybody. I was beginning to give up on myself because I wasn’t accomplishing anything. Thankfully I was told to never give up by the speech pathologist and my family. If I hadn’t listened to them I would have never stopped stuttering.
I overcame stuttering and boy was I excited. I overcame stuttering by practicing and speaking slowly. I thought that speaking slowly wouldn’t do anything but I was wrong. It may seem that when you start stuttering you’ll never overcome it, but trust me, you can overcome it. I was someone who couldn’t say a full sentence without stuttering. Some people would tell me to repeat what I said because they couldn’t understand me, but when I was repeating things, it all sounded the same.
Stuttering never stopped me from succeeding. I got on my school basketball team and I even started to participate more in class. All I’m saying is, don’t let stuttering hold you back; I didn’t.
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