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From: Walt Manning
Date: 13 Oct 2008
Time: 12:40:40 -0500
Remote Name: 141.225.97.59
Hello Dee and Tom. I’m answering your questions several days late as I have been off in California for several days presenting workshop with a colleague. I enjoyed your question “If stuttering is a gift why do we do therapy for it?” and I’m smiling as I write this. Well, as I probably said stuttering in my original comments, stuttering is something that I would not have chosen. But it has been said that the past can be thought of as something we can change, at least our interpretation of those past events. I guess with good treatment, supportive friends and hard work, what I learned about stuttering and about myself resulted in not only increased fluency but insight about myself and my situation. I don’t know how different I would have been had I not run through the gauntlet of my stuttering experiences but I did. I had been dealt a particular set of cards and I played them the best I knew how. I don’t know what else I could have done. But I was fortunate and it has turned out very nicely. I appreciate my fluency way more than the average person, certainly way more than I would had I not going without it for many years. So based on where I can from and where I am now, it’s easy to see it as a gift.