I had attempted various forms of stuttering therapy but had found little benefit from any of them, perhaps this was my bad attitude or maybe it was the standard of treatment that I was receiving. In my opinion stuttering is a very complex subject and unless you have had the problem yourself, it would be very difficult to understand just what it is like to have this form of speech impediment.

I spoke to my family and friends about the fact that I was planning to attempt to achieve fluency and they vowed to help me as much as they could. I was aware that was no miracle pill to cure stuttering and that it would take quite a long time; the rewards would be so massive that I was willing to wait.

My self-confidence had been eroded because of my inability to speak fluently and I believed that if I could some how find a way to increase my overall self-esteem that I would have a chance to eradicate the stutter. When I was drunk my confidence would be on a high, I knew that I could not be intoxicated on a permanent basis however.

It was a long road but a road that did eventually lead to fluency. I am now thirty-four years of age, I am fluent and I now do not drink any alcohol whatsoever.

By: blueboy

I started stuttering when I was four years of age. My childhood and my early adult life were very much affected by this most frustrating form of speech impediment.

My parents, who saw how much it troubled me, sought help, in the early years, via taking me to a local speech therapist. Even now, at the age of thirty-four, I can clearly remember how much I disliked attending these classes.

Possibly due to my bad attitude but also due to the quality, or lack of it, of the speech therapist, I struggled to improve my fluency. In fact as I became older the worse the stutter became.

As I entered into my teenage years, I became more and more frustrated with my lack of improvement via speech therapy and also with the fact that I actually had a stutter. I was starting to feel a little sorry for myself.

At around the age of fifteen I asked a speech therapist if there was a cure for stuttering, he told me that there was not. I could not believe it and my heart sank, I could not bear having this horrible speech impediment for the rest of my life.

At the age of sixteen I became drunk for the first time, it may seem strange but I loved the feeling! I had so much confidence and my speech seemed to improve with every bottle I drank.

This was, for me, a breakthrough. I was able to talk when drunk, therefore I should be able to talk when I am sober – there is no excuse.

The cure for stuttering is not to be in a permanent drunken state but it just proved that I did have the capability of talking fluently.

I then had the task of developing this into a full blown cure for stammering and stuttering.

By: blueboy

Around a decade ago, a visit to the local speech therapist seemed to be the only option available for people who had a stutter. The main reason to attend speech therapy was the hope that it would provide some form of fluency and a potential cure for stuttering.

These hopes would basically be dashed after just one visit. Instead of explaining a treatment program that if followed with hard work and determination would lead to fluency, the speech therapist would state that they did not believe that there was a cure for a stutter and that the person should accept that they had the stutter. What great advice!

I am somebody who had a stutter and I went home feeling disgusted with the speech therapy that I was given. What I could not understand, at that tender age of just eight, was why at times I could talk very well when at other times I would struggle to say a single word. Surely if somebody could find an answer to this then a cure would not be far away. The big frustration was the fact that nobody was seemingly looking for a stuttering cure and that they had all just accepted that it was not possible to overcome it.

Despite the negative attitude that I was hearing from the speech therapists, I did feel that I had hope. I knew that these speech therapists had never suffered with a stutter and that in reality they could not fully understand what it was like to have this form of speech impediment, there is only so much that you can learn via a book.

After living life with a stutter for around eighteen years, I decided to attempt to search for my own cure for stuttering and I have now been fluent for the last eleven years.

By: blueboy