“Prathusha’s Pandora” Hello Mates! I’m P-Pa-prrr- Prathusha… Well, that’s how I started my Skype session with Lee Lovett. Earlier, I had done quite a few speech therapies that did not work. The obvious reasons for not working is the speech therapist himself because he was a NORMAL SPEAKER (Non-PWS) and I don’t blame him for […]
By Prathusha Ravi
“Time with Tasneem“ – How it all began My name is Tasneem, and I am an admitted attorney and conveyancer of the High Court of South Africa. I started stuttering at the age of 10 and have absolutely no idea how or why it started. I do remember though, that there was another boy in […]
By Leah Areff
I remember it like it was yesterday, sitting in a dingy, smelly room in my doctor’s surgery as a ten-year-old. A National Health Service Speech Therapist saying to me, “before we start Stuart, I must inform you that there is in fact, no cure for stammering” I remember my heart sinking and thinking, my word, […]
By Stuart
“Prathusha’s Pandora” – O’ little golden fish (PWS), Thou think thou look so vulnerable in front of the mighty shark (Non-Stutterers), Don’t fidget my tiny lads, For remember, even Phoenix burns to emerge. Learn to face thy problems. If not now, then when? Alas, don’t fret. It is thy imperfections that emanates beauty, Thou art […]
By Prathusha Ravi
We, as PWS (People Who Stutter), want to defeat stuttering, and we know that in order to do that we must do everything that Lee says in his book. But sometimes, when we are under pressure, we forget what to do because we panic and we end up stepping off Stutterer’s Cliff and appearing as […]
By Javier