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Hello, my name is Chris and I am a person who stutters. This is where I write about the lived experience of stuttering and how I took back my life from it. Stuttering shaped who I am today, and it provides a unique perspective through which I experience the world.
Well into self-acceptance, I write through a new, more urgent lens–as a father to a young son who stutters. He is the light of my life, and what drives my dedication to illuminating the many complexities of the affliction, healing, and to parenting stuttering through the acceptance-based approach that remains undefined.
Along with raising my son, I’m fully invested in the stuttering community. From self-help, partnerships with speech therapists, as the consumer rep on the American Board of Stuttering, Cluttering, and Fluency Disorders, and, as a participatory researcher focused on understanding stuttering as trauma. In a positive way, stuttering burns bright in my life. And I write about it here publicly or privately for future publication every single day.
Please join the mailing list for my latest writings or reach out to talk stuttering, ewmoment@gmail.com.
What is Every Waking Moment? The answer I give to others who ask what it was like to come of age with stuttering and then learn to thrive with instead of fighting it. And…
My Book
In 2022, I self-published a book on my through-life stuttering journey. It is both honest and raw, and although I wrote it as my story, it puts words to the experiences of so many who stutter.
Amazon – Every Waking Moment: The Journey to Take Back My Life from the Trauma and Stigma of Stuttering
If you’re a speech therapist, consider joining the Spero Stuttering Book Club where I join Dr. Ana Paula Mumy to discuss the three parts of the book is greater detail while answering questions. Sign up below!
Featured
Learning to Take Up Space
“Everyone, everyone, we got a job over here, 50 miles away. There’s a big hole that has to be filled. C’mon!” my son proclaimed to the entire gathering of parents and children at a 5-year-old friends’ birthday party. He was holding a pretend cellphone while straddling a big wheel atop the hill in their backyard.…
Instead You Call Me Buddy?
Bath time is sacred. I cherish it every night because I get to spend an uninterrupted half an hour with my son as he poops, takes a bath, and brushes his teeth. Granted, some nights are harder than others, but most you can count on him being his unequivocal self. As we finished up bath…
Sailboat, Cross, American Flag, Heart, Little Moon
My internal alarm went off, an innate threat response learned in childhood. But for my son at his 5-year check-up, the request from the nurse to do his first vision and hearing tests didn’t set off the same visceral reaction. He stood 10 feet from the chart as I covered one of his eyes. In…
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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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