From the Chicago Daily Herald:
When Ben Staub was about 6 years old, his mother told him his dad was going to take him to a Friends Convention for kids who stutter.
Ben started to cry and said, “He can’t, mommy.” He got close to his mother and whispered, “But then he’ll know.”
Ben thought he was hiding his stuttering from everyone but his mother.
“All that time, he thought it was his dirty little secret,” his mother, Cathy Staub, remembered. “I didn’t know how ashamed it made him feel.”
Ben didn’t know any other children who stuttered. When he went to the convention, he walked into a room full of kids talking and stuttering.
“Suddenly, he wasn’t alone,” Staub said. “The power of that moment was so huge.”
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For more information about the 2010 Friends Convention for The National Association of Young People Who Stutter, visit www.friendswhostutter.org.
