Creating Our Own Ideals
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- Category: Personal Commentary
- Published: Tuesday, 28 June 2016 12:44
- Written by Rich Lutman
Early on in life we start to develop ideals about the world, how we envision our future, how our life is going to be. As we mature, those ideals can start to change. Sometimes our stuttering impacts these ideals. It challenges our beliefs, our wants and can change the path in life we choose to take. This is not necessarily a bad thing – it means we have changed our ideal of "normal".
Graduation season is just around the corner and while graduating is a time of great enjoyment, accomplishment and celebration, it also marks a time a great change. This is the time when recent grads will put down their books, join the workforce and of course start paying back those student loans!
First dates, butterflies and wondering when your crush will text you back are enough to make anyone’s head spin. But for someone who stutters, there’s an added layer of personal anxiety.