Celebrities shouldn’t hide their stuttering
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I’m sick of hearing of various celebrities who “overcame” their stuttering or grew up stuttering yet they seem to never, ever dare stutter in front of the camera. While I do understand there’s an “image” to protect and nobody’s usually up to stuttering in public, however, 1) why bother mentioning it in the first place and most importantly, 2) what kind of message is being sent?
It’s refreshing to read about Ed Balls, a public figure in Great Britain, being upfront about his stuttering. And explaining how trying to cover it up makes it worse. He gets the Ti-Ger Award of Recognition! (:o]
Plus, he’s also involved with the programme that actor Michael Palin, who also stutters (and gets the Ti-Ger Award as well), launched for children who stutter. It’s got a cool name, “Wait, Wait, I’ve not finished yet”.
Thanks for @webby49 for alerting me to this great story.
Interesting post. This reminded me of hearing that U.S. Vice President Joe Biden stuttered when he was younger… I think if I am recalling this correctly. And, when you hear him speak now, I don’t think that he stutters that much. Just thought that I’d add this to the conversation.
February 14th, 2010 at 10:47 amMy name is Samantha, I have stuttered since I can remember. I believe that it is genetic from my father, all 14 of my father siblings females and males all have the stuttering gene.Its hard at times to talk when you can not get out what you want to say. My sister and I talk about it all the time and she tells me how she continues to struggle and cry about how hard it is for her over the phone and to talk to people at times. I told her the best way is to get involved with the stuttering foundation and that is why we are doing research to take part in this disorder. It’s amazing to know that you are not the only one battling this.
March 16th, 2010 at 10:51 am