If you have difficulties with your speech, you are not alone. Latest figures state that over one percent of people in the UK suffer with a stutter or stammer. This article describes the effects that stuttering can have on a persons life.
I am somebody who has overcome a stutter or what some people call a stammer that had basically ruined my life for eighteen years. Stuttering affects people in different ways, however these were the aspects of life I found difficult:
Introducing people
Ordering food or drinks
Speaking on the telephone
Attending interviews
Trying to attract a girlfriend
Socialising with friends or family
In general the stutter made me accept second best in life and made life a huge struggle. I found stuttering a disability and was forever looking for ways at beating the stutter.
People who knew me including family and friends were not really aware of how the stutter affected my life and were quite shocked when I eventually told them.
I attended speech therapy from the age of four or five. My attitude was possibly not what it should have been, in my own mind I always believed that they could not...