warrick
09-15-2007, 05:18 AM
Hi all,
Im Warrick Sullivan and I am currently living in Brisbane, Australia with my wife and 3 young boys. I have had a stutter all my life and really know no other way. During my childhood I had a number of speech therapists from about 3.5, and in hindsight, often wonder if the very early speech therapy actually contributed to my longterm speech difficulties, since I was made so conscious of my speech problem before my natural speech had even had a chance to fully develop on its own.
I guess for me, my focus is not so much on what caused it, but more how I can fix it. The part that I find astonishing now, is that I never even contemplated the possibility of fixing it until quite well into my 20s. I had signed myself up for a 'cure all' speech course in Scotland and suddenly found myself losing sleep worrying about what life would be like if it actually worked. I was petrified. For the first time I felt that my stutter was more something I was doing, rather than something that was being done to me and that I had no control over. As hard as it may be for a lot of people to to swallow, I believe we have the choice whether we want to stutter or not, and each day that we do nothing is a day that we choose to stutter. Please dont get me wrong. I'm not saying that it is easy to stop. Im just saying it is possible if you set your mind to it and decide you are no longer willing to live with this stutter and will do whatever it takes to be free of it. That is the day that your stutter, your relationships and your life will start to change.
Now, I still stutter so I do not have all the answers yet, but I can promise you one thing. I have decided, and I WILL find the answers. This is my FLUENCY QUEST and I am excited to meet all you people out there that are on your own fluency quest. We can beat this. The first step is to believe.
I look forward to talking to you all soon.
All the best on your quest
Warrick
Im Warrick Sullivan and I am currently living in Brisbane, Australia with my wife and 3 young boys. I have had a stutter all my life and really know no other way. During my childhood I had a number of speech therapists from about 3.5, and in hindsight, often wonder if the very early speech therapy actually contributed to my longterm speech difficulties, since I was made so conscious of my speech problem before my natural speech had even had a chance to fully develop on its own.
I guess for me, my focus is not so much on what caused it, but more how I can fix it. The part that I find astonishing now, is that I never even contemplated the possibility of fixing it until quite well into my 20s. I had signed myself up for a 'cure all' speech course in Scotland and suddenly found myself losing sleep worrying about what life would be like if it actually worked. I was petrified. For the first time I felt that my stutter was more something I was doing, rather than something that was being done to me and that I had no control over. As hard as it may be for a lot of people to to swallow, I believe we have the choice whether we want to stutter or not, and each day that we do nothing is a day that we choose to stutter. Please dont get me wrong. I'm not saying that it is easy to stop. Im just saying it is possible if you set your mind to it and decide you are no longer willing to live with this stutter and will do whatever it takes to be free of it. That is the day that your stutter, your relationships and your life will start to change.
Now, I still stutter so I do not have all the answers yet, but I can promise you one thing. I have decided, and I WILL find the answers. This is my FLUENCY QUEST and I am excited to meet all you people out there that are on your own fluency quest. We can beat this. The first step is to believe.
I look forward to talking to you all soon.
All the best on your quest
Warrick