There is a difference between feeling and being alone. Both are equally hard to endure but knowing the difference was life-changing. There are 70 million people worldwide who stutter yet growing up I felt like the only one. Stuttering was socially isolating because it denied my use of verbal communication to foster connection with others. When
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For most of my life, I cared what other people thought about the way I talk. The disjointed words and the ugly facial grimaces that came with or without the words from my mouth. I knew I was different than everyone else. Rather, how I talked was different than everyone else. Was the way it made
Every Waking Moment 