Stuttering Research Paper

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Standing in front of a class filled with my peers, no one comes to my aid as a demon clutches his hands around my throat and chokes me, refusing so much as the littlest of words to escape from my body.

In that one of many instances, is what it felt like when I stuttered.

For nearly all people, talking is apart of everyday life. By speaking you verbally voice your thoughts, allowing for communication to be established between you and another entity. By being unable to talk, you can not mentally last in a world that does not understand your needs or wants. For example, how are you going to know the answer to zero divided by zero without asking Siri? More importantly. how are you going to tell the Starbucks barista that you like your espresso with an extra shot? By being unable to talk you are limiting what the world has to offer. …show more content…

Well unlike his lovable rambling, my kind of stuttering felt as if a pocket of air was stuck in my throat that disabled me from speaking. I was choking on air. Consequently, this affected my self-esteem and in turn made my freshman year of high school a living hell.

My biggest fear had become about stuttering and not being understood. Due to this fear I was unable to ask questions about others and course work which limited my understanding and created a disparity between my classmates and I and in the process, didn’t allow others to come to understand me. In a class of over five hundred, I had never felt so isolated. I thought that I would experience high school in that fashion all the way up to graduation, but with the start of junior year with its nation honor society selections and looking back from now, I was never so glad, so grateful, to be rejected in my entire

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