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reflection Last summer, after doing nothing about my stutter for 20 years, I finally did something. I first started seeing a therapist, which allowed for the first time, someone to talk to about the internal struggle I had been going through. I didnt see any improvement in my stutter, and next saw a psychiatrist and was prescribed klonopin. This drug changed my life. I began to talk in class, after years of sitting in panic of being called upon. I began being more expressive, making jokes, telling stories, showing friends a side of me that was hidden under the stutter. Best of all, after years of never talking to girls, never even having a girls number, I began approaching girls. I met a girl in october and we fell in love. I went from studying accounting, where I felt I would gain a job without communication, to studying marketing and psychology, I found myself this year. This year for the first time in my life I found happiness, I found a reason to get up in the morning. I believe I am already successful. I accepted my stutter and through this found myself. After years of self torment, self destruction, self inhibition, I began letting myself come out and although I still stutter, my stutter does not define me. It did build me though, and is something that we can all share and there is no armor stronger! I stopped taking klonopin in December and saw no setbacks, and no withdrawal effects.