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Your articles on life with a stammer
Stories, articles, opinions, poems, art and more from people who stammer. Read about their stammering experiences.
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Fri, 24/01/2020
As a teenager, Richard Smith's self-consciousness really held him back. But through his life experiences after leaving school, including speaking to farmers about muck-spreading and his time on a kibbutz in Israel, he found ways to cope.
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Tue, 21/01/2020
When Claire chose to study French at university, she knew it would it would have its challenges. Here she writes about developing social phobia and how her placement in France made her realise she couldn't hide away any longer.
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Wed, 15/01/2020
Colin Mitchell sat down at the event he organised, feeling inadequate about his speech. But then someone took to the stage and proved that stammering doesn't make you a bad public speaker...
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Fri, 10/01/2020
Callum tells us about finding peace with his stammer last year and how it's inspired him to make big plans for 2020.
Tue, 07/01/2020
For the last four years, Phillip Cole's stammering-based New Year's resolutions haven't lasted very long (until the end of January, usually). What has he resolved to do for 2020?
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Thu, 19/12/2019
In this season of gift giving and receiving, US-based James Hayden asks the question: if stammering is a gift, what has it given him?
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Wed, 18/12/2019
Emily Vass tells us how a kindly shopkeeper encouraged her son Dexter, giving him the confidence to go on and meet Father Christmas.
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Wed, 18/12/2019
BSA Communications Director Kate Dickson reflects on the recent news story about Game of Thrones actor John Bradley and his experience of stammering, and questions his decision to give his character a stammer.
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Tue, 17/12/2019
In the first of our special series of articles for Christmas, Peter Wright tells the heartwarming story of his seven-year-old daughter, who hoped for a speaking part in her school’s nativity play.
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Thu, 12/12/2019
Pavlos Klapsis talks about what it feels like to have a sibling who stammers, something which he says isn't talked about much, and how it influenced his decision to become a speech & language therapist.
Tue, 10/12/2019
John Hannon writes about breaking free from a life spent trying to hide his stammer.
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Thu, 05/12/2019
Counsellor Amy Leggatt gives an account of training in a talking therapy as a person who stammers.
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