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>> What inspired me to become a speech language pathologist?
Well I'm a person who stutters, I've been dealing
with stuttering, struggling with stuttering for my entire life.
A couple of years ago I had a really incredible experience
in an intensive treatment program
and since then I left my job in the banking industry
and went back to graduate school and became an SLP.
In the intensive course, I started to think
about communication difficulties in a much different way.
For my entire life growing up as a person
who stuttered I felt isolated, I felt alone, I felt like I had
to hide this part of me and it was a very, very big part of me.
Everywhere I went you know I tried as best as I could not
to stutter so I started to think about my stuttering
and my relationship with my stuttering
at this intensive program a lot differently and just a couple
of words it's ok to stutter.
I think that it's important that people talk about stuttering,
that everybody talk about stuttering and why that's
so helpful for so many people is because so many of us feel
like we can't talk about it, it's this thing we're supposed
to hide, it's this thing we're supposed to be ashamed of,
it's this thing we're supposed to be embarrassed
by so let's just push it under the rug right.
So what we do at stutter talk is we talk
about stuttering you know with all different kinds of people
and people who have had different experiences
with stuttering, just putting it out there so people can hear
or maybe start to think that I don't have to hide this thing
as hard as I'm trying to hide it right now.
Just getting it out there and again normalizing this disorder,
you know by making it so it isn't this strange thing,
this pink elephant in the corner of the room
that can't be spoken about.