It sure feels good to be able to speak; free that that most frustrating fear of stuttering. Yes I am now a fluent speaker; after enduring eighteen years with a speech impediment I finally managed to beat the problem when I was aged twenty-two. My life is now far easier, far more enjoyable and I am far happier. It was definitely worth all of the hard work and dedication that I put in to overcome the stutter. 
 
I guess that only a person who has a stutter problem can truly understand what it is like to have this form of speech impediment. I could say that I had it tough but in reality it was all that I knew. Constant trips to see the speech and language therapists were a bit of a drag; especially because these people were clueless when it came to understanding the problem. Attending their speech therapy classes was basically a complete waste of time; but attend I did – for fourteen years in fact!

You may be asking yourself why did I attend these classes for all of this time when it obviously was not working. Well I suppose it was to please my parents – sounds daft when I write it now.
 
This new found fluency brings about a whole new world; a whole new freedom. It is like I have been given a second chance in life or even a second life. All of the things that I used to only dream about I can now do. 

Success is so much easier to achieve as a fluent person. I often look at people who have no ambition and think something along the lines of “Your fluency is wasted”. They are not appreciating, or utilising, the gift that they have been given.
 
It has been thirteen years since I managed to achieve my goal of fluency and beat stammering. The time has seemingly flown by which is what tends to happen when you are having fun!