There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.
One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.
Speech is the small change of silence.
As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.
Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.
Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal more than our carefully chosen words, and sometimes be at odds with them.
If anything is scary about my writing, it's that it's the product of a very particular vision and doesn't reference common speech that heavily. By 'common speech,' I don't mean language as much as an agreed-on way of seeing, or a shorthand.
Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
The things that block a writer are not the lack of words, but the same things that block all people - the difficulties of life.