How to beat stammering and overcome panic
Don't let a stammer be an impediment
What It Is Like To Have A Stammer by:
Steve
Hill
Stammer or stammering can have a
dramatic effect on somebody's confidence.
Fluent people really can not comprehend how hard it is to live your life with a
speech impediment or stammer.
I run one to one speech courses in Birmingham and one of my clients once told me
about a situation he was involved in. He and his friends went to a bar one
Saturday afternoon to have a few drinks. After a couple of pints he went up to
the bar to order himself a drink. Unfortunately he could not speak all of the
words fluently and the bar man accused him of being drunk and refused to serve
him. He tried to explain that he was not drunk but had a stammer but the bar man
said "That's what they all say"
He returned to his friends who asked him where his drink was. He told them what
had happened, this itself was very embarrassing.
His friends were very supportive and one of them went to the bar and bought him
a drink. Everything was fine until the barman saw him drinking this drink. He
stormed over and asked him to leave the pub saying:
"I told you that I did not want you drinking anymore alcohol, now get out"
His friends tried to explain to the barman about the stammer and were eventually
thrown out of the pub as well.
This is a typical situation people who have a stammer find themselves in.
Stammering can make progress in a career difficult. Being able to obtain
employment is hard enough, attending an interview with a stammer is not easy.
Many people who have a speech impediment find using a telephone a choir and most
careers need the employee to have good communication skills.
Other areas of life are also made to be a struggle, for example when I had a
stammer I found it difficult to order things like drinks, form relationships
with the opposite sex, converse with friends and meeting new people. For
whatever reason I also found my stammer to be at its worst when I was tired.
I am now happy that I have overcome the stammer that had made my life a struggle
for eighteen years.
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About the author
Steve Hill has a number of websites
including:
http://www.stammering-stuttering.co.uk
http://www.free-reflexology-chart.co.uk
http://www.panic-attack-symptom.co.uk
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