{"product_id":"164569","title":"The words finally spoken ","description":"\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/tmgdisk01.cafe24.com\/images\/vs\/4172\/sv\/3jYFtwg0C6PJN2k91P2ZTqt02iEytZ.png?v=1764974318\" style=\"max-width:100%;max-height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center;font-size:30px;font-weight:bolder;line-height:1.6em\"\u003e The words finally spoken \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-bottom:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-color:;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable align=\"center\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003ctbody style=\"border:0px\"\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd align=\"center\" style=\"line-height:1.2em;text-align:center;font-size:18px;color:black;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px;\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/goods\/152315134\/XL\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;{split_style6}padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e Description \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;word-break:break-all;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003eHow can we embrace the self we've learned to dislike? John Hendrickson, a journalist and author with a speech impediment known as a stutter, focuses on the lingering stutter of Joe Biden in the Democratic primary race for the 2020 US presidential election, weaving it into his own experience in a special feature article for The Atlantic.\u003cbr\u003e The article went viral, leading to countless calls from stutterers across the country and even a television news appearance, something he never imagined possible.\u003cbr\u003e This attention, which came at a time when he had not yet fully accepted his own stutter, led him to reflect on his life and his stutter, and ultimately led to his desire to write a book.\u003cbr\u003e So, this book was published, looking back on life centered around stuttering, shame, and self-acceptance. \u003cbr\u003eThe author uses his own life to illustrate how ableism can stain a person's life with shame, how to view disability through a different lens, and, above all, what it means to accept oneself.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e You can preview some of the book's contents.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan\u003ePreview\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eindex\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Author's Note\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1.\u003cbr\u003e With nothing in hand\u003cbr\u003e 2.\u003cbr\u003e empty audio\u003cbr\u003e 3.\u003cbr\u003e That gaze\u003cbr\u003e 4.\u003cbr\u003e Baseball and Strike\u003cbr\u003e 5.\u003cbr\u003e Fluency Factory\u003cbr\u003e 6.\u003cbr\u003e difficult to explain\u003cbr\u003e 7.\u003cbr\u003e Mr. Cho\u003cbr\u003e 8.\u003cbr\u003e The courage that alcohol gives\u003cbr\u003e 9.\u003cbr\u003e black waves\u003cbr\u003e 10.\u003cbr\u003e Kairos\u003cbr\u003e 11.\u003cbr\u003e Pennsylvania State University 1\u003cbr\u003e 12.\u003cbr\u003e With big dreams\u003cbr\u003e 13.\u003cbr\u003e Pennsylvania State University 2\u003cbr\u003e 14.\u003cbr\u003e “Sir, which country is that?”\u003cbr\u003e 15.\u003cbr\u003e One-way trip to the West\u003cbr\u003e 16.\u003cbr\u003e uncertain future\u003cbr\u003e 17.\u003cbr\u003e “I’m leaving my body.”\u003cbr\u003e 18.\u003cbr\u003e Dismissal notice\u003cbr\u003e 19.\u003cbr\u003e sealed box\u003cbr\u003e 20.\u003cbr\u003e “Because our bodies have abandoned us?”\u003cbr\u003e 21.\u003cbr\u003e Joe Biden Articles and Letters\u003cbr\u003e 22.\u003cbr\u003e “That doesn’t stop me.”\u003cbr\u003e 23. \u003cbr\u003e“A Softer Resting Place”\u003cbr\u003e 24.\u003cbr\u003e “There is no such thing as ‘yet’”\u003cbr\u003e 25.\u003cbr\u003e Mom and Dad\u003cbr\u003e 26.\u003cbr\u003e If it weren't for you\u003cbr\u003e 27.\u003cbr\u003e Friends\u003cbr\u003e 28.\u003cbr\u003e sibling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eInto the book\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e It wasn't until the year 2000 that scientists began to understand that stuttering is a neurological disorder.\u003cbr\u003e However, research in this field is still somewhat disorganized.\u003cbr\u003e Even among experts, there is little consensus on the core 'problem' of stuttering.\u003cbr\u003e Some argue that stuttering is related to the linguistic elements of speech (turning thoughts into words), while others believe it is more related to motor control problems (how muscles form the sounds of words).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- From \"Chapter 2 Empty Audio\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Stuttering' is a term that comprehensively describes various obstacles that occur during the process of speaking a sentence.\u003cbr\u003e Perhaps the typical stutterer comes to mind, repeating parts of words as rapidly as a machine gun. \u003cbr\u003eI stutter more and more and more.\u003cbr\u003e However, stuttering can also occur as an unintentional extension of speaking a word.\u003cbr\u003e Do you want to go see the uh- ...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- From \"Chapter 2 Empty Audio\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Have you ever tried telling someone who stutters to speak slower? Next time you meet someone who stutters, ask them how they feel about being asked to speak slower.\u003cbr\u003e \"Please speak slowly\" is just a polite and thoughtful alternative that conveys your true intention: please don't stutter.\u003cbr\u003e But surprisingly, a lot of speech therapy boils down to these three words.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- From \"Chapter 2 Empty Audio\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I feel guilty for wasting everyone's time.\u003cbr\u003e A quiet voice in my head speaks.\u003cbr\u003e It's all your fault.\u003cbr\u003e Guilt soon begins to transform into a new emotion called shame. \u003cbr\u003eThe difference between these two can be difficult to understand, but another friend who stutters once explained it clearly to me.\u003cbr\u003e “‘I did something wrong’ is guilt.\u003cbr\u003e Shame is the feeling that 'I am wrong.'\"\u003cbr\u003e --- From \"Chapter 2 Empty Audio\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Julie said.\u003cbr\u003e “I knew intuitively that it would never be easy to live with that.\u003cbr\u003e “But you acted like nothing happened? Maybe because you had no other choice. I remember trying to look like you weren’t hurt at all.” That was my only strategy at the time.\u003cbr\u003e Suppression.\u003cbr\u003e Ignore it.\u003cbr\u003e Never talk about it.\u003cbr\u003e To keep bad feelings from coming to the surface.\u003cbr\u003e It worked for a while, but eventually it failed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- From \"Chapter 4 Baseball and Strikes\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Well, John, you have a serious stutter.” \u003cbr\u003eIt wasn't meant to hurt, but hearing it from someone else really hurts.\u003cbr\u003e I've been bullied and teased hundreds of times, but no adult has ever said anything like this out loud.\u003cbr\u003e I don't know how to react.\u003cbr\u003e He's not judging me.\u003cbr\u003e It simply states facts, such as “the sky is blue” or “your eyes are brown.”\u003cbr\u003e Still confused though.\u003cbr\u003e I am fifteen years old.\u003cbr\u003e I met therapists, doctors, and even the odd hypnotist, and they all somehow avoided the word 'stutter'.\u003cbr\u003e Because it has always been my problem, my issue, my stumbling block.\u003cbr\u003e It's clear that Mr. Cho isn't trying to appease me.\u003cbr\u003e Just telling the truth.\u003cbr\u003e Instead of promising to make you speak fluently, he says this:\u003cbr\u003e “I can help you speak better.”\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- From \"Mr. Cho\"\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003ePublisher's Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe self I learned to hate\u003cbr\u003e How can I accept it?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e John Hendrickson has a fluency disorder, commonly called a stutter, and works as a reporter for The Atlantic.\u003cbr\u003e He wrote a special article focusing on Joe Biden's remaining stutter in the Democratic primary ahead of the 2020 US presidential election, linking it to his own experience.\u003cbr\u003e The article generated more buzz than expected, and the author appeared on MSNBC's live newscast the day after its publication.\u003cbr\u003e The book begins with a moment in the waiting room for a news appearance.\u003cbr\u003e In the moment when he, who stutters, is waiting for his name to be called, nervous and worried about appearing on television, something he never imagined in his life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe author then began receiving emails from people who stuttered all over the country, and decided to confront the fundamental problem of his own stutter, which he had not been able to accept deep down until then.\u003cbr\u003e Because when I had a 'public' encounter with a part of myself that still felt like a source of pain and shame, in the form of an unexpected, completely unexpected television appearance, I realized that that pain was not just my own.\u003cbr\u003e The deeply personal and intimate confessions of other stutterers made the author feel compelled to say something about his own stutter and shame.\u003cbr\u003e So the author begins writing a book as a journey to come to terms with his stutter. \u003cbr\u003eI relive moments that I have constantly ignored and suppressed since I was young, buried deep in my own box in my heart, and I find the past connections that were with me at those moments and talk to them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eOn stuttering, shame, and self-acceptance\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book is not about stuttering, but rather a record of one person's journey to come to terms with it.\u003cbr\u003e When we think of stuttering, we often think of “I stutter more and more,” but to be precise, “stuttering” is a term that comprehensively describes various obstacles that occur during the process of speaking a sentence.\u003cbr\u003e Unintentional prolongations during speech (“Do you want to go see a movie together?”) and speech impediments that prevent words from being uttered are also considered stuttering. \u003cbr\u003eThe author's stutter is particularly marked by prolongation and pauses in speech, and he describes the distress of pauses as \"sometimes lasting a minute or more\" and \"in severe cases, feeling as if he were going to faint.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The author honestly and openly shares nearly everything that has happened to him, both internally and externally, surrounding his stutter: bullying, the societal perception that stuttering must be \"fixed,\" the still-controversial medical community about how to effectively help people who stutter, family conflicts, drug abuse, alcoholism, shame, depression, isolation, and more. \u003cbr\u003eThe author's story of being at odds with society and himself due to the single difference of stuttering, and of being endlessly cowering, confronts us, without exaggeration or minimization, what it means to grow up learning to hate parts of yourself, and to live knowing nothing but to suppress or ignore something in order to become stronger.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWhatever the reason, we are at odds with society and ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e The courage evoked by one man's journey to reconcile with his stutter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The author doesn't just use his own voice to document his journey of coming to terms with his stutter.\u003cbr\u003e He meets with important figures from his past, such as teachers, therapists, and former lovers, who remain in his life's memories, and he meets with other stutterers who still exist today, and he has countless conversations with the many stutterers who have contacted him since his appearance on the show. \u003cbr\u003eHe also participates in non-profit organizations such as the National Stuttering Association.\u003cbr\u003e The voices of many people met in this way are woven throughout the author's story.\u003cbr\u003e The voices of these others make the author's memories much more three-dimensional, and the author learns many things through talking to other characters who exist in specific moments imprinted in his mind.\u003cbr\u003e The long journey from the shame of stuttering to self-acceptance involves a wide range of people, from close family members and teachers to parents of children who stutter, therapists, and even that stand-up comedian you were rude to at a show one night.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For John Hendrickson, shame stemmed from his stutter, but doesn't everyone have their own internal struggles that they try to hide, suppress, and pretend not to care as best they can? \u003cbr\u003eA part of yourself that you absolutely do not want to accept, but would like to fix if you could.\u003cbr\u003e But we need to ask ourselves why we feel we need to 'fix' something, and whether we would truly be ourselves if it were gone.\u003cbr\u003e John Hendrickson very gently reminds us that what 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