| Do you have a speech impediment? Do you have | | | | I had quite a few friends and good friends at that. |
| a stammer? Do you yearn to be able to speak | | | | I was certainly not bullied in the physical sense |
| fluently? Well if you have answered any of these | | | | however there was the inevitable "mickey taking" |
| questions in the positive then this article may well | | | | with people laughing at me when I was unable to |
| be of interest to you. I am a person who had to | | | | speak fluently in the class. As for the school work |
| endure living with a stammer for eighteen years | | | | I actually found it rather easy, that is not |
| of my life, the stammer seemed to control those | | | | bragging, but I did. |
| eighteen years and affected virtually every | | | | So why, people may wonder, did you leave |
| decision I ever made. I was determined to | | | | school and education at the age of sixteen if you |
| overcome the stammer as the thought of having | | | | were so bright? Quite simple really, as I have |
| the speech impediment for the rest of my life | | | | previously stated I really did not like school. Why? |
| was a thought that I was not willing have. | | | | I was always one minute away from stammering. |
| During my teenage years it was like I was living in | | | | I entered each class praying that the teacher |
| fear, in fear of stuttering. Looking back I | | | | would not ask me a question, and that they |
| remember having a major dislike for school. It | | | | would not ask me to read out a loud from a |
| was not because I found the school work too | | | | book for example. It was no way to live and this |
| difficult or because I was bullied or because I was | | | | is why I yearned to be able to talk fluently. |
| unpopular. Despite the fact that I had a stammer | | | | |