Kiernan Shipka Quotes

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.

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

I did have a speech impediment.

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

I've got a speech impediment.

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

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

I will always have a stutter.

I have a speech impediment because I slur a lot, and they even make fun of me on 'Cougar Town' because there's certain word combinations that I just can't say.

Well, my brother says Hello. So, hooray for speech therapy.

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

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.

But now I've been in the arena for 47 years and I stutter less today than I did in those days.

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.

I'm a lifelong stutterer.

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.

Gerald Jonas's book about stuttering is called 'The Disorder of Many Theories.' Back theory seems to suffer from the same 'Rashomon' effect: as with almost every human problem, there is no dearth of answers and no answer.

There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters.

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

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

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.

My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.

But I stuttered as a kid. I went to classes to help it, and it just went away around fourth grade, when I became more aware of how others spoke, I think. But also, growing up in the South, a mumble is a way of speaking.

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.