Asia Stutter-Ing Association (ASIA)

Stuttering As Part Of A Journey

Jhong Ren — Sun, 04 May 2008 07:06:04 +0000

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Somehow I wonder what does stuttering means.

There are times I wonder if I am cured totally.

Again, there are other times when times are down and I stutter now and then.

What if there is no cure to stuttering?

What if we are with it all along?

What if even on the last day on our death bed, we still stutter?

I know a life of stuttering is not easy. But it doesn’t mean we can’t live normally.

We can still have our wedding, get married and have children plus a successful career!

(In case if you wonder I am married, this is my wedding blog.)

Neither are those who have visible disability such as a loss of a limb.

At least for stuttering, it is invisible as long as no word is said.

And I am really impressed by those have visible physical disability and they walk out bravely into our society.

So, stuttering or not, I have to carry on with my life, into this journey till my last breath.

Swicth Of Mindset Between Left And Right

Jhong Ren — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:19:10 +0000

Stuttering has always been a myth in my own opinion. Sometimes, some people stutter outside while others only stutter when talking to certain groups of people.

For me, I stutter only when I am anticipating when is the next time I stutter.

So, today I want to talk about mindset.

There is a mindset to positive thinking - telling myself that I won’t stutter.

There is also another side of our mind - the negative mind, which reminds us of our weaknesses and things we are poor at.

We are all victims of our own mind, isn’t it.

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Why People Stutter

Jhong Ren — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:04:48 +0000

The are many reasons why a person may develop a stutter, and I am going to explain a few of them in this article.

We learn to talk by observing the people around us. This happens from birth and when our vocal chords are fully formed we start to speak. If a member of our close family has a stuttering problem, there is a good chance that we could pick up their bad habits and also start to stutter. I have met many people who stutter, who inform me that somebody in their family also suffers with stuttering and for some reason it is normally their father.
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Stuttering Information

Jhong Ren — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 02:03:11 +0000

Stuttering or stammering, as it sometimes referred to, is a speech impediment which affects around one percent of the UK population. I just happened to be a part of these one percent as I had a stutter for around eighteen years ago. In this article I will be writing about how the stutter affected my life and about the forms of treatment that are available.

The affects of stuttering

So what affect did having a stutter have on my life? I could answer this question with just one word - Huge.

Yes, the impact was massive. Not being able to read out aloud in class, order drinks at a bar, speak on the telephone, these are just three from of a large list of what many people see as simple tasks, that I just found so difficult to complete.
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Anger Management Advice For People Who Stutter

Jhong Ren — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:03:10 +0000

I am a person who had to cope with a stuttering problem that started when I was aged four and continued until I was aged twenty-two. Life was tough back then and I used to become quite frustrated at the way certain fluent people would treat me. I quickly had to learn the art of anger management to help me to avoid striking out. This is my stuttering anger management story.

I am Stephen Hill, now aged thirty-three, from the UK. Having a stutter badly affected my life, I became quite shy, very unsociable, and quite a depressed young man. The lack of quality therapy and treatments for stuttering would leave me feeling quite angry. I could not bare the thought of having this horrible speech impediment for the rest of my life.

The majority of fluent people were actually extremely patient with me and would give me the time to eventually speak what I was attempting to say. This was nice but I still hated the fact that I was stuttering in front of them.
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