Blessed, Germantown, MD
I am Blessed and am 13 years old and I stutter. Stuttering is when you usually get stuck on a word and you can't say it. In fact 1% of people in the WORLD stutter. I never really cared about my stutter and it's probably because I never got bullied for it. No one even cared about my stuttering and finally I don't stutter as bad as other people who stutter. My speech therapist also stutters and she gave me information about stuttering and strategies. The things I love to do are playing Minecraft, chess and finally drawing. This drawing represents a knight. The knight is the focal point of this because it is special. It is the only piece that the queen can't copy. It's unique and different from the other pieces.
Blessed, 13, Germantown, MD
My stuttering is rough, like an anvil or a rock but regular speech feels soft like a feather or a pillow or a bunny and together the rough stuttering usually wins.
Dylan, 8, West Lafayette, IN 26
When I was younger, stuttering was something that I didn’t really give much attention to. Sure, it affected how I communicated and interacted in school and with friends and family, but I didn’t see it as a problem or something that bothered me at all. Furthermore, speech therapy back then to me was just free time for me to play Minecraft on my speech therapist’s Ipad. But as I grew older and became more aware of my neurological condition, I believe that my stuttering became even more severe. I would start to avoid answering questions and sharing in most of my classes and try to avoid conversations with people I’m not close with, and I started to view stuttering as something I just want to get rid of. Personally, I believe that my final year of middle school was the year that I was most able to grow as someone with language dysfluency. During the entire school year, I would have a 45 minute speech theory session almost every Tuesday at school during one of my blocks, and I feel like these sessions not only helped me speak more fluently and hide my stuttering more, but also helped me accept it and move on. What I think was most impactful was how my friend, Harshiv, was also in these sessions with me, and how I was comfortable with stuttering during these 45 minute sessions. During these sessions, we would not only learn about stuttering in general and how we can hide our stutter, but we also learned about how stuttering isn’t something to be ashamed of and how common it really is in our world today. Despite learning about many different types of strategies to hide my dysfluency, I think what helped me more than anything was accepting my stuttering and not feeling insecure or embarrassed about it. After doing that, I feel like using the strategies that I learned became much easier and smoother.
Yves Lu, 14, Singapore
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