How does your family feel about your stutter??

[warrick]

I remember when I was 17, I found some literature written by someone who stutters explaining about life with a stutter. When I first read this writing, I was close to tears because it was the first time I had seen it published what I had been feeling for so long.

I showed my mother and suddenly her eyes were opened. She finally had a small insight into the daily struggles that make up my life. I remember being amazed at how the closest person in my life had absolutely no idea of what I was going through. How could that be? How could they not see it?

How does your family feel about your stutter? Do they understand?

[RebeccaApril]

I know myself that everyone has caught on by now that i stutter..obviously they are my family and the closest people to me. Yet, they would never understand the internal anxieties and distress that it causes. My mom and dad have paid for all of my therapy attempts and they tell me that i should practice my speech more when they can tell im having an off week..but i just get so frustrated with them because it is not something i can just turn off...or practice more..
I believed that i was different than anyone else who stutttered because i internalized everything until i went onto this one website..i think it was called "pebbles under my tongue" (check it out everyone) and there was an actual video posted of people talking about stuttering and how agonizing it was for them as well..and i was just balling my eyes out, because i thought.."finally someone who is just like me". I sent it to my mom and she was very emotional about it as well, but still to this day i believe it is so much more than the actual stutter..it is my internal mind that tells me i cannot say that word, or introduce myself without stuttering..so in a way i am self sabotaging myself..it is so exhausting!
I feel like my attempts of success with my speech therapy is non-existent...i definitely need help..anyone have any advice? thoughts? i could go on and on about this, because it is a daily struggle for me...:(

[Atro]

Everyone in my family has been supporting me. Even my little brother understands this issue and takes his time and sometimes asks me to calm down and rephrase my sentence slowly.

I know its very hard to see life from a stutterers point of view, and I'm really glad that they have done their best to understand me.