To the editor: As a lifelong stutterer and an lively member within the stuttering neighborhood, I used to be happy to see the Related Press article about this situation that you simply lately revealed. Nonetheless, I strongly disagree with the sentiment expressed on the finish of the piece, that “taking drugs is ‘simply taking away part of you ... taking away a part of your persona.”
Pharmacological remedy for stuttering is simply one other software in a woefully small toolbox. It doesn’t search to erase stuttering as a result of it’s one way or the other “dangerous.” As a substitute, it will probably make the each day talking duties a bit simpler and can be utilized along with conventional remedy.
I've absolutely accepted myself as an individual who will all the time stutter and am pleased with that a part of my id. However there’s nothing the matter with profiting from all doable remedies to handle it, particularly if it’s extreme sufficient to intervene with routine life.
Medicine is simply one other software, albeit a brand new and promising one and needs to be embraced by the neighborhood.
Catherine Moroney, Pasadena
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To the editor: Medicine is just not the reply for stuttering.
Ask a stutterer this: Who's the particular person they're afraid of that's inflicting their insecurity? It's often the concern of a father or mother or somebody who represents authority, somebody who's being crucial and inflicting the emotional trauma and nervousness that grow to be so debilitating, expressing these emotions may result in stuttering.
Jacquie Nemor, Santa Monica
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