Okay, I think it's time to try and push this a little bit.

Okay, I think it's time to try and push this a little bit. I've been a moderate stammer right from the beginning. As a child it didn't affect me very much, but as soon as I got into the teenage years it started to bother me more and more. Eventually the *stammer* made my career choices and not *me*. This was bad, very very bad. As I'm sure many of you can relate, I've tried pretty much everything. My mother dragged me to some crystal healing when I was younger. I've been hypnotized. I've been to speech therapists, but nothing worked. I believe a core part of this is that the people trying to educate you, simply can't relate to how you're feeling. It's impossible for people to truly know how we feel as people who stutter. I just came home from a 2 day mini-course at the Scandinavic McGuire programme. The last few hours of the course we asked the founder who had flown all the way over from the US to us, here in Denmark: "Have you thought about marketing?" He admitted that they have been very bad in that aspect but also revealed that steps were being made to try and push this programme on to more people, to atleast let them know that it exist. So why am I telling you this? Because this can seriously change your life. If you take ownership, and commitment to this, the chance of completing it is pretty darn good. My first course, which I took late last year, had 60 people attending. *All* of these including the coaches are people who have a stammer. 15 of the people there (including me) were completely new and had no idea what was going on, but we went there with our last shred of hope. By the third day of the course, 14 out of 15 stood up in public speaking (fluently, and with confidence I might add) to 50+ people, with all eyes and ears focusing on them. I was one of them. If there's any of you out there that is seriously considering (and I mean seriously, this is a *ton* of freaking hard work) taking control over your own speech, then I would strongly suggest going ahead and giving it your best shot. There's courses going on in the US, Africa and Scandinavia. The initial fee is quite high, but the first day is free regardless. You should get a pretty good impression whether or not you're comitted and whether or not this could work for you by the end of that. After that, you have a life-long membership at the Mcguire Programme in which you can attend to all the courses you can reach. I'm just a "student", I'm still relatively new, but I have control over my own speech now (still work to be done, but I'm fluent). This also means I'm not "getting anything" out of promoting this, I just simply feel so strongly about this that I'd atleast let you know that this exist, and that you should most definitely give it a shot. The founder is called "Dave Mcguire" and he also have a book out called "Beyond stammering". **TL;DR If you're the least bit interested in getting control over your speech, please read it.**