The Scary Block…!

Today I went to a medical store nearby my home to buy medicine for my mother, as she was suffering from toothache for the past few days. When I reached the store I tried to ask the man at the counter- “Bha……………………………………”. I was just trying to say “BHAYA THODA DAATH DARD KI DAVA DE […]

Challenges

Hello Friends! This is Kumar Kundan from Bihar. I live in Delhi, working in Delhi Metro as JE. Having known to what to do with my stammering ,at least where to begin and to continue practicing the techniques such as bouncing, voluntary stammering, and not having any immediate expectations in terms of result , yet […]

Stuttering – My experiments with fear

(Received from Dr Tejpal, Chandigarh) In a recently concluded National TISA Conference at Chandigarh, Anapana meditation was taught by Vipassana Teacher. Anapana meditation is a preliminary step of Vipassana meditation, which is widely practised by students in schools and by adults by jail staff and prisoners in many prisons all over India and abroad. Many […]

That moment of fear made my day

Today we had our quality management meeting in our company. All of us gathered in the conference room. Roughly around 30 new trainees were there including me. The quality manager came and started the presentation. He started asking questions to all of us along with introduction. I became very uneasy sensing that my turn would […]

Horrible so called “Solution..”..

  I wanted to talk… I wanted to talk like everyone does…. “Want”…. that want was getting over me.. 🙁 … I was getting mad for fluency…. I was searching for “Solution” over the internet… during that phase one of my teachers told me about “Acupuncture”… his intention was to help me… as I was […]

Thank you , Ma’am !

Suya madam was the favorite of the entire school. She had done B Ed, and was preparing for NET. And of course, her name was Anusuya, which children of this primary school had shortened to Suya Madam. Girls wanted to look like her and often wondered what cosmetic did she use! She was tall and […]

Ego: Emotions Gone Overboard…

Ego is bad for people. Sounds clichéd?? Well, It’s more so for pws. The singular factor that can ease the life of a pws is –  Confidence. It is when the mind and heart are in unison, without fear, that words flow unhindered. For a pws like me,  (teacher with stammering) with nowhere to hide, […]

Tumbling Down a Relapse Slide…

Life is a roller-coaster ride, they say. So is it, for me. Heaving up in joy on days of “easy talk” and tumbling down in anguish on days of “blocked talk”. Life! Right now, I am in a period of relapse. After progress made with tireless toil, I am sliding down. The quiver of lips […]

I am Binu, and I am a Stutterer

Hello, I am Binu and I am a stutterer. Hmm … That felt funny. Even though I know for a fact that my personality, my thoughts, my choices have been mainly influenced by the dreaded stammering, this is probably the first time in my life that I have introduced myself as a “stutterer”. It was always […]

Who is the REAL enemy?

Hello friends, I felt like posting this today, for all of my friends who have lived or are still living the life of a stutterer, with a message which might seem awkward but is the honest realization which my life as offered me. It’s going to be big and boring, hence a text file. I […]

My Meeting with Sachin Sir

First of all , i will give my small introduction. My name is Ramandeep singh and  i belong to a village in sriganganagar district of Rajasthan. I was defending my stammering since my school days and right now i am attacking my stammering after meeting with sachin sir. I planned to meet with sachin sir […]

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My Stammer Personified

One of my really good friends and Person-Who-Stammers (PWS) suggested an activity that was all about creating a short story of your stammer as if it were a person/friend/pet under the activity name “Stammering Personified”. Well, frankly speaking, at first it seemed a little ridiculous and childish, but after being open minded, it opened other […]

जीवटता की मिसाल – चायवाला लेखक . . . !

दिल्ली के लक्ष्मण राव सड़क के किनारे ठीक हिन्दी भवन (ITO के पास) के बाहर चाय बेचते है. लेकिन कुछ लोगों ही हिन्दी साहित्य के लिए राव के योगदान के बारे मे जानते है. उन्होंने कहा कि पिछले 37 वर्षों में कोई कम से कम 20 किताबें लिखी है. हालांकि राजधानी में लेखन दुनिया मे […]