Question for Javier

[Dean Lovett]

Hi, Javier. How long were you a stutterer? Thanks.

[Javier]

Hi Ken, I began stuttering when I was around 4 years old, and I stopped stuttering at the age of 29, more or less 1 year ago.

[Anonymous]

And Javie, were you, not a complete shutdown blocker, with terrible facial grimaces? I think some people falsely believe that their stutter is “much worse than ours ever was” or that we never “had it as bad as them”.

You are a perfect example that even severe PWS can become fluent and beautiful speakers! Bravo!

[Javier]

Hi Taz,
thanks for your kind words.
I wouldn’t consider myself a shut-down blocker, but I was quite a severe one. Sometimes, one of my blocks could last 5 seconds or more, but I managed to speak, at the end, although it was exhausting. But in any case, I was a severe stutterer: grimaces, severe blocks every few words, etc. There are videos of my coaching sessions as a PWS here in WSSA.
Now that I am a coach, I always say, “If I’ve been able to do it, you can also do it”. And I’ve seen videos of PWS with a worse case than mine who have also stopped stuttering. So there is no excuse!!

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