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Hello, my name is Chris and I am a person who stutters. This is where I write about the lived experience of stuttering and how I took back my life from it. Stuttering shaped who I am today, and it provides a unique perspective through which I experience the world.
Well into self-acceptance, I write through a new, more urgent lens–as a father to a young son who stutters. He is the light of my life, and what drives my dedication to illuminating the many complexities of the affliction, healing, and to parenting stuttering through the acceptance-based approach that remains undefined.
Along with raising my son, I’m fully invested in the stuttering community. From self-help, partnerships with speech therapists, as the consumer rep on the American Board of Stuttering, Cluttering, and Fluency Disorders, and, as a participatory researcher focused on understanding stuttering as trauma. In a positive way, stuttering burns bright in my life. And I write about it here publicly or privately for future publication every single day.
Please join the mailing list for my latest writings or reach out to talk stuttering, ewmoment@gmail.com.
What is Every Waking Moment? The answer I give to others who ask what it was like to come of age with stuttering and then learn to thrive with instead of fighting it. And…
My Book
In 2022, I self-published a book on my through-life stuttering journey. It is both honest and raw, and although I wrote it as my story, it puts words to the experiences of so many who stutter.
Amazon – Every Waking Moment: The Journey to Take Back My Life from the Trauma and Stigma of Stuttering
If you’re a speech therapist, consider joining the Spero Stuttering Book Club where I join Dr. Ana Paula Mumy to discuss the three parts of the book is greater detail while answering questions. Sign up below!
Featured
‘Call Out Their Name’
Last spring, my son was at soccer practice on a Friday night after school. The coaches—of which I was one—divided the kids up into two lines to teach them how to pass the ball to each other and then run to a spot near the goal to shoot and score. The drill required the passer…
I Can’t Keep Up
This is a narrative role-play where I overlay my knowledge and experience of stuttering as remembered from my childhood with how I imagine my son is internalizing his perceptions. It is a perspective that is regularly top-of-mind as I go through the days with him and try to understand how he’s thinking about the way…
I’m Still Talking: An Introduction to Time Pressure
“Some friends were making fun of me today, mama.” My son’s words caught my attention from across the room as I was making dinner. “What does ‘making fun of’ mean?” he asked. As I heard the question, I knew he was trying to tell us something that had happened at school that day, but he…
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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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