Spit it Out - The Nevada Independent

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Spit it Out - The Nevada Independent

May is National Better Speech and Hearing Month. There are some things about having grown up with a terrible, debilitating stutter that I wouldn’t trade away now, for anything. Yes, I could have done without the reflexive cruelty of other kids, who saw an easy way to wound the tall, athletic kid who seemed to have everything else going his way. I would have liked the girls I wanted to talk to not to laugh at me. I really, really wish the adults …