Ian Gomez Quotes

But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn't do it without stuttering.

So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.

From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.

I'm a lifelong stutterer.

I've got a speech impediment.

I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.

There's nothing wrong with a lisp.

There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.

I had a stutter 'till... I still do today. I just work on it a lot. I obsess, if you will, with it, but I stuttered throughout my childhood.

I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ad.' And that turned into a mumble.

I used to not stutter any. Oh, I did when I was a kid, I stuttered, I had a bad stutter until I was probably between the second and third grade and a guy got rid of it for me.

I did have a speech impediment.

I had a stutter when I was a young. I went to speech therapy.

It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

Well, no, you can prepare it all you want, but I'd still stutter.

I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it's funny. And it's not funny. It's not.

If you're a kid, it's all you think about if you stutter. Kids can be so mean. My grades suffered. Class participation weighs heavy in grading, and I wouldn't open my mouth to read or talk in front of anyone.

I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.

I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.

Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.

I've stammered all my life, and it's fair to say that my stammer has shaped my life. It's made me make some decisions that I'm sure I wouldn't have if I didn't suffer with this affliction.

It's nothing to be ashamed of to have a stutter.

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.