As you go through this sharing, this case study, please note following salient facts:

• Even family is not able to appreciate the problem a CWS passes through while growing up. There is no 'language' to discuss and understand stammering experiences at present.
• Browsing Internet tells us that we are not alone- there are many like us. A big jolt!
• A traumatic event often becomes the big turning point. Before that, we just carry on with life.
• Those approaches, which give controls in our hands (rather than to the expert or therapist), help us better. In this case it was Vipassana, recommended by the father.
• The writer states that he still stammers- but obviously his stuttering mind set is gone. This is recovery indeed.
• The one thing which started all this was- his courage to talk about it, to share his thoughts and feelings with the world through writing and video.

These are the clinical nuggets, underlying recovery of this young person. Read on.

A friend has lent us a pdf file: Letters to a Desperate Stutterer . He was sent it by a "friend from AIS". Nothing new. Our belief system, our thoughts, perception and emotions- certainly play a role. But Neurolinguistic programming (NLP) is not the only or the most effiecint way of dealing with them. We would rather recommend Vipassana, Brahmavidya, and other spiritual practices, akin to our upbringing and culture than NLP consisting of "Positive prior intentional framing" and such 'magic' tricks! For two very practical reasons: Vipassana is free and is easier to understand and implement, than NLP.

In Kolkata workshop, once the talk about "Cluttering" came up and one of the participants asked me (sachin)- What is the diffrerence? How do I know that I have stmmering and not cluttering?
Cluttering is even more rare and poorly understood communication disroder. To put it plainly- it is more due to many thoughts suddenly seizing the person and wanting to be expressed at once. It is not so much about word fears. There are no escape behaviours or secondary behaviours as seen in stammering. But there is a lot of other similarities: feeling of alienation, of being all alone in the world, frustration at not being understood, anger at being unjustly 'stereotyped' by people who dont understand, diffiuclties of striking and sustaiining relationships, education, job etc. etc. And sometime they can even co-exist in the same person, as in this write up.

Check this very perceptive story by a clutterer; it helps us to understand that stammering is not the only "mystery" under the sun; that we are not alone on this path..  Interestingly, Joseph's life changed by reading a book on cluttering at 25 yrs: he discovered that his intense troublesome thoughts, difficulties to express himself and issues with society, were not just his own- there were others- a small minority walking the same path. He put up a reveiw of that book on Amazon, which again is very interesting for PWS.