But now I've been in the arena for 47 years and I stutter less today than I did in those days.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have been a lifelong stutterer, and when I was young, I experienced some very difficult times.
I had a stutter 'till... I still do today. I just work on it a lot. I obsess, if you will, with it, but I stuttered throughout my childhood.
The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others.
I used to not stutter any. Oh, I did when I was a kid, I stuttered, I had a bad stutter until I was probably between the second and third grade and a guy got rid of it for me.
When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.
With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear.
Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.
There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it's all just noise that lets me know that I'm relevant.
I'm a lifelong stutterer.
I will always have a stutter.