Hello! My name is Olga.
I am 29 years old now. I have been stuttering since childhood, since I was about 5-6 years old. I started stuttering when I ran away from kindergarten. They took me everywhere and did everything to me. They even went to a conspiratorial granny. But all attempts were unsuccessful. So I grew up a stutterer.
To say how difficult it was for me at school with such a problem is to say nothing. Every answer in class was real torture for me. As I grew older, so did my inferiority complex. In order to say something, you have to strain yourself so much. Then it takes a long time to recover from any conversation, especially if you are speaking in public.
I have a hidden stutter. Or rather, not that strong, so I can hide it if I'm not too worried. I hide it by choosing other words that are easier to pronounce, or pretending that I don't remember the name of the object I'm talking about, or I start to e-e ...
In 11th grade, I decided to see a speech therapist to cure my stuttering and share my grief with at least someone.
I was embarrassed to discuss this problem with my parents and friends. The speech therapist suggested that I work on my breathing, help with my hand when it is difficult to pronounce a word, sing difficult words at home when I am preparing a speech for a performance, auto-training. This saved me a little. But any stress throws you off track.
I entered the institute. It turned out that this institute was pedagogical. After the first session, it became very difficult for me to speak not only at seminars, but also in everyday life.
How many tears I shed. But it certainly doesn't help stuttering. After college, I went to work at a school as an English teacher. I still felt fine in class, but I always avoided speaking at ped. meetings in front of the entire staff.
Now I am on maternity leave with my second child. I really want to cure my stuttering. Recently I came across Bludov's book Zaikanie.net. The book comes with a disk with a treatment program. But for treatment you also need a computer program like axSoft Speech corrector.