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I will never forget the day that I was advised, by a speech and language therapist, that I should accept the fact that I have a stutter. I could not believe what I was hearing, this advice could only, in reality, come from a person who has never had a stutter themselves. I do not think that any person that has a stutter could ever just accept the fact, or perhaps I wrong. Are there people out there who agree with this speech therapist and who have decided to accept the fact that they are going to have this form of speech impediment for the rest of their lives?

I was fifteen years of age when I was given this "acceptance" advice. By this point I had been stuttering for eleven years and had basically had enough. I was extremely determined to find a solution to my "stuttering nightmare" as there was absolutely no way that I could contemplate having the stutter for the rest of my life.

I hoped that the speech and language was joking or that I was in some sort of dream/nightmare. Surely there was some kind of hope that he could provide me with. Unfortunately it was not a joke, it was not a dream and it was not a nightmare; it was in fact the reality - how depressing!

I did not listen to the advice of this rather negative speech therapist and vowed to continue in my quest to achieve fluency. I am so glad that I did as I can now confirm that this so called "speech and language therapist" was wrong as I have now been able to talk fluently for the last thirteen years.