Easy for YOU to say...

[Asif]

Many years ago, I found myself at a drunken party in the Pulp-Mill town of Ocean Falls, British Columbia, Canada.
I made some kind of announcement, or other, I forget about what…
The other drunks dutifully endured my glacially slow and tortured attempts to get the message out past my lips,
and when - at great length - I had finished, one of them said:
"Easy for you to say!"

That was about the funniest thing I've ever found about stuttering. Everybody laughed - even me! But...

Stuttering is no fun.
If you stutter, you already know this.
It is one of the most insidious of handicaps, in that it can not be seen.
The listener is often left with the impression that the stutterer is either stupid, mentally subnormal, or stoned on drugs or drink.
I've often wished for ANY other handicap rather than the one I have: at least people would KNOW I had a handicap!

Stuttering has shaped my life: limiting what I might have achieved, preventing me from having any kind of ordinary existence, and setting me on a dangerous course that has led to mountains of trouble and hurt.

But even so, there has been a good side to this…

I wonder how boring and underdeveloped as a person I would now be, had I not been forced to deal with this affliction.

[Professor]

man i feel ya i freaking hate it

[Marco]

i feel you too man. it friggen blows so huge.

[Power of three]

But even so, there has been a good side to this…

I wonder how boring and underdeveloped as a person I would now be, had I not been forced to deal with this affliction.

It's great to see someone taking something positive out of stammering instead of just saying how life has been ruined by having a stammer - even if I don't agree with you regarding how life is limited by having a stammer.

You set your own limits on life. I see it as being as simple as that.

[bignick]

That easy for you to say line is superb, I have had it said to me a few times by family and it has been so funny.

With regard to your stutter limiting your life, it depends on if you see the glass half full or half empty. Every one on here has different views on how their stutter has affected their lives and how they react to it. There is no right or wrong opinion on peoples stutters.
Its good that you have positive opinion of what stuttering has made you.

Nick

[Standingtall]

Pretty Isolated place to work, and now your in UK. Interesting life there my friend. Great to see you have an great sense of humor.