A Stuttering Revolution. Don’t fix your stutter, fix your life. | Paul Gaskin | TEDxNorthwich

What do you do to help someone who stutters? You focus on stopping the stuttering. Right! You could. But what if there was another way. Paul Gaskin wants to start a stuttering revolution to do just that!
Paul Gaskin is a senior global HR leader who has stuttered
all his life. Drawing on his personal and career experiences,
Paul has written a self-help book A Stuttering Revolution.
Don’t Fix your stutter, fix your life (published November
2023), to help anyone who stutters to create, live and love

[osmanakamara]

It's really hurt😢. At times i really want to say something exactly how I saw it, but because of my stuttering, i can not explain it better. But inh sha Allah i will defeat it😢

[robertwiley]

Amazing! I’m speechless.
I’m a 33yo man who finally decided to finally follow my dreams and go back to university and finish what I left because of my stutter.
Stutter will not define me anymore, I want to prove to myself and the people who love me what I’m capable of.
I’m looking forward to this next chapter of my life, can’t wait to begin.

[hansguenther]

Great talk, Paul. I went through everything you described. Only when you accept that the stutter is a part of you, you don’t care what other people think about your stutter and you spend more energy on what you want to say instead of how people will receive it, the magic begins.

[joshb]

great talk, I have a very bad stutter. I has greatly impacted my life on every level, as I research and think introspectively more into stuttering it does seem like its linked to ones self image. I remember my stutter being at its worst around 12-13 when I was first told that I stutter.... before that moment I didnt stutter in my mind

[ganapathyakshay]

Thank you for this talk Paul. I think as stutterers it's an opportunity for us to work towards being the best versions of ourselves that we can be. Rather than seeing it as a handicap we can see it as something that pushes us to build the life we want to live, as you pointed out. Thanks again. Lets bring about a revolution!

[abolacadernos]

I managed to fix my stutter & life thanks to Lee Lovetts’ book entitled “How to Stop Stuttering & Love Speaking”.

[toughlovestutter]

It is 100% possible to overcome stuttering. Doesn't mean 100% fluency, but honestly, no one is. Iv done it, my best friend did it and so have millions of other people. Once you understand it not about fixing the stuttering it makes sense.

[johnwalsh]

As a stutterer, I can completely relate to his message here. I noticed from a young age that the less I thought and worried about stuttering, the more fluently I spoke and vice versa. It’s all about ones comfortability being their genuine self and owning it

[IrfanKhan-xqnf]

Being a University student, Stuttering is my biggest impediment to introduce myself to everyone.

[zvzwukf]

I am 41, stuttering every day, but that extremely severe. I used to work in a SOE company in China while translating some books of art and literature. In 2023, I quitted my job. My passion of translation and interpreting drove me to study overseas in Sydney. Here, I dare to say I want to be a conference interpreter for the first to public. How could you think about that a man with stuttering wants to be professional living by speaking. Simultaneous interpreting is super hard. But I found that long consecutive interpreting is even harder for me. Today is perhaps the most difficult day for me recently because I stuttered so badly in a long consecutive interpreting exam. I almost lose faith. Back to several years ago, I drew aspirations from my favourite movie actress Emily Blunt to make my mind to be an interpreter. So I look for encouragement and energy here to go forward tomorrow. I don't know what will be like in the future. But I will try even it is daunting task though.

[healtheconomist]

Thank you Paul Gaskin for your advices. I will be a great and popular person despite my stammer. Bless you Paul Gaskin.

[willprytz]

I found this one inspiring - thank you for sharing your experience. I´m 29 and live with a stutter. For me it was a game-changer to work with my emotions that related to my stutter. I worked on my self-esteem and the acceptance. That helped me a lot. I still stutter just as much, but I doesn´t suffer from it the same way anymore since I stopped viewing my stutter as something bad.

[randallscott]

As a Clinical Hypnotherapist I have found from my research, that stuttering is caused by a traumatic event, between the ages of 2-7. the cause is anything from a dog barking in a child's face, to a child seeing some one get shot! this is the spectrum that I have worked with. So when you put someone into hypnosis you go back to the first time they started to stutter. The subconious remembers everything. Then we do forgiveness and let the memory go from the body. Now when you understand how the mind and body work together, you can go back to the memory, and there is no more emotion attached, . that is when the stutter lets go. And becomes the cure. Good luck in the future. If you have any questions please let me know. Thank you for you time.

[rfefnnz]

Wow! Powerful, passionate and inspiring. I was very lucky to work with you Paul, you’re an amazing leader.

[MyTips-jbgv]

I stutter for almost 23 years of my life but with right techniques and practices it is cured now!!

[AbdulSami-nxmh]

Leaving this comment for people who struggle with stuttering. I am 17 and I still have the same problem and I am trying very hard to overcome it, there's this one comment I read is that if you started stuttering because of a traumatic event, your subconscious mind still has that in it, so you must go back to the point where you started stuttering and let go of things. 😊

[allaberman]

Hi! Sometimes I still stutter, but not a lot. I have learn to speak slowly and it do work.

[Chestnuthue]

This is great. I have prayed to God to take away my son and mine stutttering, God lead me to this TED.

[dannyfsr]

Well done Uncle Paul. Amazing speech. I’m proud of you

[AlisonJones]

SUCH a powerful talk - thank you Paul!