what helped you to gain confidence?
Hi there, my name is Elizabeth and I was wondering what personal life experiences/ advice helped you become more comfortable and confident about stuttering.
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Overall, I believe that the experiences I have had and continue to have that have helped me become more confident are those in which I stutter my way through but still get what I want in the end.
For example, when I order a coffee and stutter, I still get to drink my favorite coffee rather than saying something I can say.
Sometimes you need to feel uncomfortable to gain confidence.
Hi Elizabeth,
I am Bevin’s Mom, and when she was young, when we went to Starbucks, she would want a Mango Passion Fruit, but she was reluctant to order herself however, I would encourage her to place her own order. I would say to her that she was in Starbucks to get her Mango Passion Fruit and if she came away with it then her objective had been achieved. Whether she stuttered or not was incidental to the exercise. The goal of going to Starbucks was not about speaking fluently or not stuttering it was about getting a Mango Passion Fruit.
As you can see from her answer getting her favourite coffee is more important than how she speaks – she learned her lesson well!
Veronica