It is always eye opening to watch and read things that are through the perspective of a person who stutters. Having grown up with a classmate who stuttered with a really great school SLP gave me a different perspective. In school we learned that our just needed a little more time to say what he wanted to say and if he was having a really hard time he would sing it, there was a lot of singing going on in our classroom. The school SLP pushed in to our classroom all the time to teach us to be patient when playing with our friend. This gave me a different perspective on people who stutter because to me a stutterer was just a normal part of my day as a child. However, this is not the case for all environments for people who stutter, and movies such
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This treatment from his father and siblings led to the King being embarrassed by his stutter even in his own home, this got worse when we had to publically speak and was glared at and judged by bystanders. While this movie took place in the 1930s and 40s and times have changed and some of the therapy practices used have been since discredited, the way the people view people who stutter is the same. Because of the media and the way society treats people who stutter, they learn to be ashamed of who they are and how they …show more content…
When the man in the Stutterer had something good in his life, with the girl online it caused him so much distress to have to maybe meet her that he ignored her for days. This girl had gotten to know the real him, who he is behind the stutter and spent six months getting to know him and caring for him before they met and she would find out he had a stutter. Because of this small part of who he is, he assumed he would be ridiculed and she would want nothing to do with him. I cannot imagine forming all of my relationships going into them assuming this person would not be able to look past my stutter and get to know who I am beyond the stutter. These videos and articles in today’s media hopefully give people who stutter hope that society will start to understand what they go through on a daily basis, be more patient and understanding of a person who stutters. I think many lay people do not understand the concept of stuttering and that it is not something that can be “fixed” or something someone can simply chose to not
This treatment from his father and siblings led to the King being embarrassed by his stutter even in his own home, this got worse when we had to publically speak and was glared at and judged by bystanders. While this movie took place in the 1930s and 40s and times have changed and some of the therapy practices used have been since discredited, the way the people view people who stutter is the same. Because of the media and the way society treats people who stutter, they learn to be ashamed of who they are and how they …show more content…
When the man in the Stutterer had something good in his life, with the girl online it caused him so much distress to have to maybe meet her that he ignored her for days. This girl had gotten to know the real him, who he is behind the stutter and spent six months getting to know him and caring for him before they met and she would find out he had a stutter. Because of this small part of who he is, he assumed he would be ridiculed and she would want nothing to do with him. I cannot imagine forming all of my relationships going into them assuming this person would not be able to look past my stutter and get to know who I am beyond the stutter. These videos and articles in today’s media hopefully give people who stutter hope that society will start to understand what they go through on a daily basis, be more patient and understanding of a person who stutters. I think many lay people do not understand the concept of stuttering and that it is not something that can be “fixed” or something someone can simply chose to not