| Those people who have a stutter will fully | | | | impact on my life: |
| understand what I mean when I write about what | | | | I am at a local bar enjoying an evening out with |
| I call my stuttering demons. For those of you | | | | some friends. It is my turn to buy a round a |
| who have not ever had a stutter, I will briefly | | | | drinks and I start to approach the bar. As I am |
| explain. The stuttering demons are a voice that is | | | | walking nearer this voice in my head (the |
| in my head which is forever talking to me, it tries | | | | demons) begin to talk to me. You are going to |
| to convince me that I am going to stutter. I | | | | struggle to order these drinks Steve; you are |
| believed that I could cure the stutter if I could | | | | bound to stammer, especially on the word |
| somehow find a way to eradicate or kill these | | | | "Budweiser". This can be extremely off putting |
| annoying stuttering demons and later in life this | | | | and can seriously impact on your confidence |
| belief was found to be correct. I have now | | | | levels. |
| enjoyed being able to speak fluently for the last | | | | So how can one kill or eradicate these stuttering |
| thirteen years. | | | | demons? Well the solution is quite simple however |
| This inner voice tormented my life for each and | | | | in reality it is extremely hard to implement. What |
| every day of the eighteen years that I had a | | | | we need to do is to talk back to these demons, |
| stutter. It was my worst enemy and one that I | | | | tell them that you are not listening to them and |
| feared that I would never be able to shake off. | | | | that you will be able to complete the task |
| Attempting to explain what these demons were | | | | successfully. We need to do the opposite of what |
| to people who have never had a stutter, such as | | | | the demons say. If they tell us not to go out |
| speech therapists, was very difficult. Could | | | | socialising then we should go out etc. It certainly is |
| nobody understand me? | | | | not easy but if you can pull it off then fluency can |
| Here is an example of how these demons would | | | | be readily attained. |