The main reason for less awareness of stammering was because of Stammerers.
Yes, the stammerers alone are responsible. Normal speaking persons definitely can not understand & also may not know what kind of problems especially emotional turmoil that all the Stammerers are facing in their day to day life.
How could normal persons understand our problem unless WE
explained to them.
It's believed that 1% of the world population are stammerers. From
my experience, in that 1%, hardly about 2% alone are able to control /
overcoming their stammering.
I am not going into details why the remaining 98% of the
Stammerers were unable to overcome their stammering. Already I explained many
times about it. So, enough is enough. But I would like to discuss about a couple
of points here.
1)
I know a few stammerers for many years. But they are still afraid
of uploading their voice messages in whatsapp group because of their fear &
shame which I could not understand. This is the forum for them to stammer
comfortably without any fear..
2)
Similarly, majority of Stammerers even while speaking to their close
friends, colleagues, always trying to hide their stammering every time as if
others didn't know about their problem which is also surprising me.
Ok, let's come to ther main topic. As stated earlier only 2% of
Stammerers were able successfully overcome their stammering. That's we
can assume only 0.02% of the world population are recovered Stammerers. Those
recovered Stammerers alone have to create awareness about stammering which falls
in the voluntary / social activity
category.
Who else will create awareness for us?. It's
our problem... Our headache.... We only have to find a solution for this.
In that 0.02% recovered Stammerers, how many of them are ready for
this kind social work? Not even 10% of the above 0.02% which is very small
numbers. Then, how come the awareness will reach to the public?
Most of us are unable to overcome our stammering. Always afraid of
speaking even with our closed ones. Always avoiding speaking situations.
Under these circumstances, where they will get guts and courage to
talk about their problems with others?
At least TISA has come to
our rescue now fairly to some extent. TISA is more active now a days. In many
cities, TISA members are creating awareness about stammering. This is mainly
due to tireless work being done by Dr. Sachin and a few like minded TISA members.
The only solution to create awareness is first we have to overcome
our problems and talk about stammering with others. Or at least even having with
the existing problems, we have to create awareness. But it requires lot of guts
and courage which is very short supply now.
We should not expect others (including government) to create
awareness for us.
We have to first understand that this is our problem and not
others.
comments are welcome.
Regards,
Manimaran.
Manimaran.
Yes it is we who are responsible for un-awarenes of stammering to public. If we cant use our so called intelligence in curing our own problem then what is use of such intelligence. I was planning to start an SHG in my kashmir valley but the problem is that i am still unable to accept my stammering, how come is it possible for me to create awareness about stammering... The only formula is "acceptence", "courage"... Let us not lose hope and lets come out of the shell and start showing courage without waiting for other's help...
ReplyDeleteYes, Mani. I agree. Only a stammerer can be the right advocate for the stammereres. If she/he has problems speaking, they can write and spread the message. But, many of us, neither speak, nor write - and still expect the world to understand our feelings and our issues! I am happy that your blog is moving in this direction. congrats!
ReplyDelete@ Harith above - please dont give up. Even if you talk to one pws on phone everyday, your self help group has begun.
Thanks Dr. Sachin for your valuable advice.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with Mani Sir that we have to share our stammering emotional problem to someone but sometimes we become self centred that our only problem is the only problem in this world. The power of sharing not strengthen our acceptance but give chance to become confident.
ReplyDeleteIf we don't speak about stammering then who else will? How can we expect people to understand us, unless we speak out about what is going on inside us?
ReplyDeleteStammering is a huge iceberg, what is visible is only the tip of the iceberg. Only way to melt this is to just speak about the invisible part.
Thanks Mani Sir for initiating this vision.
Sachin sir, thanks for your advice, inshaAllah i will initiate SHG by taking the first step of talking to pws on phone. Actually i talk to pws via phone but i am not doing that at regular basis because i had no idea of SHG via voice-call.
ReplyDeletePerfect. The journey begins with acceptance of it. That really means sharing with almost everyone your all friends around the world, your office colleagues, supervisor, and last but not the least your family.
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