Stutter with Confidence #54 with Lindsey Lambert
Realizing that it Truly is Okay To Be Me
We discussed the fact that she became an introvert from the fifth grade on once she became self-conscious about her stutter; how difficult it was on her when she moved to a new town in middle school where she didn’t know anybody; Mike’s similar experience of moving somewhere new in middle school; how sports gave her an outlet to build her confidence to some extent in high school; the intense sense of isolation that we both felt as kids when it came to our stuttering/social experience; Mike’s example of an eye surgeon friend who harbored deep fears that his patients would think he was incompetent as a doctor when he stuttered, but that none of those patients actually left him as a result of his stuttering; how the SWC group mentorship program gave Lindsey the strength and support to move forward, find her confidence, and face her fears of speaking (22:45-26:04); the importance of choosing forgiveness over anger when it comes to other people not being very educated on stuttering; learning to play and love the sport of Wolf Hunting (hunting the Stuttering Wolf); the idea that stuttering is fundamentally an issue of holding back (both ourself overall and our speech); the idea that trying to hide our stutter makes it so much more difficult to speak; the idea that feeling time pressure makes it much more difficult to speak; her smashing of the myth that everybody would look down on her for her stuttering; and a whole more.
Enjoy.
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