Sunday, 23 August 2015

AN OBSESSION WITH SPEECH: STAMMERERS PAIN




It only looks like impossible to say a few words when you are down into the stuttering foray. But it might come as a surprise to you if you do not have this speech impediment because you can’t believe that people are having brain strains, stresses, depression and various anxiety disorders because of what they are going through.


Reading a lot of reviews about stammering and talking to a few people who all happen not to have stammered before gave insightful thoughts about breathing in, talking slowly, feeling happy when talking and not hiding your stammer. But the real question is how can someone who has not died before no how it feels like to die and enter eternity. It’s just heresy and from researches many people have searched but the root cause is still unknown leaves a lot of people with this impediment into pondering about suicide every now and then.

One of the guides that I normally I read when I am terrified is an Advice to people who stutter which I happened to download off the internet. It was insightful with people sharing their personal experience about not wanting to get married, have suicidal ideations and losing friends that they think would have helped them, but who would want to hang out with someone with a few words. Dwelling on the positives, it calms someone with a stutter down because it presses on the experiences of your elder brothers and sisters who have fought against all odds and against the tide to do something great with their lives.

At a point in time in my life, someone confronted me and called me a recluse person, but I thought and saw it as this person was so close to me I thought would understand my situation and know why I don’t want to hang out because sometimes talking much leads me to drinking a lot of water as I can feel that my frontal lobe (the forehead part of the brain) is giving me signals to just sit back and relax.

Many people are starting out life with this stammering and in my early twenties I have seen a lot of love, pain, sorrow and embarrassment but that won’t stop me from achieving the great things and accomplishments I have set for myself and so are you. People can call us whatever name, label you with whatever, but those who really understand are the people who have it. Only a poor man understands a poor man and a hungry man understands an angry man because he has been out there, brothers and sisters of the fraternity understands your pain.

At the upcoming International Stuttering Awareness Day in October people should know that stuttering is not a joke but a pain that fills up the adrenalin of its bearers although it might be a stepping stone that sees them enjoy a fruitful life and met out help to others because they have been out there.

If you consider your pain, you won’t be able to do anything meaningful with your stammering, but dwelling on the positives, we have experienced something new which looks impossible but can be geared towards a positive energy in order to help us reach our stands in life.

Always remember that your circumstances are hindrances to seeing your abilities and therefore speech is an obsession and stammering is a pain but we live to do something great without lives no matter what. STAY ALIVE.



Raphael Minter is a freelancer who shares his thoughts through writing and writing only and has stammered from childhood, you can connect with him on TWITTER @MinterRalph AND FACEBOOK, Ralph Minter so that you can all heal yourselves through sharing of personal knowledge and experiences.



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