big stutter 5

it's been ages since i blogged anything about stuttering. it's a good day for it.

we just finished up another week in the big stutter house. today we were evicted.

9 more broken mouthed individuals have accepted their stuttering a little more, and lessened their shame, embarrassment, guilt and pain.

we did a lot of open stuttering this week in billybraggan. obviously we followed 'the methodology', keeping eye contact, and doing a good bit of stuttering on purpose, but open stuttering was picked up by the boys and girls this week.

permission to stutter was granted, and acted upon.

we'll be meeting up again in 4 weeks to see how they got on. i'm looking forward already. they were all really motivated, and shirked no difficult situation.

i know that they'll find it tough in the outside world. they have a general direction and know which way is forward, even though on many days they will slip back.

slippage. like sliding. only backwards.

however as a clever man once writ... 'relapse is not the end, simply another therapeutic stage'.

before i leave you - a stuttering joke that many of you people with non broken mouths will just wonder at.

why did the stutterer cross the road?

...to get to the other slide.

pax stutteramus