What Stuttering Means to Me

Kelly Severseike
8 min readMay 9, 2019

May 2019

A couple of years ago, I wrote an essay about what words mean to me. It was about my stutter and how finding my love of writing helped me cope with my speech. I wrote about the anxiety I had around my voice and how hard it was to write about my stutter because that meant I would have to address it and I was reluctant, to say the least. I even made a vow to myself that after I finished writing that essay, I…

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Kelly Severseike

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” -Joan Didion