Out with it
Subtitle: how stuttering helped me find my voice
By: Katherine Preston
Edition: 1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781451676587
Subjects: Stutterers; Health; Rehabilitation; Biography
Other titles: How stuttering helped me find my voice
Description: "A fresh, engaging account of a young woman's journey, first to find a cure for a lifelong struggle with stuttering, and ultimately to embrace the voice that has defined her character. Imagine this: you're a beautiful, blonde, stylish, highly intelligent, gregarious young woman curious about the world with a lot to say about it. But every time you open your mouth, a stutter comes out. In order to do something as simple as say your name, you must physically force the word. Which doesn't always look so pretty. At the age of seven, Katherine Preston learned that she was a stutterer. From that point on she battled the fear of communicating with the world by denying that her speech was an issue. Finally, a humiliating experience inspired her to take an unusual action. In Out With It she tells the hilariously heartbreaking yet ultimately uplifting story of her year spent traveling around the United States to interview more than 100 stutterers, speech therapists, and researchers. What begins as a search for a cure becomes a journey that debunks the misconceptions that shroud the condition and a love story that changes her perspective on normality. Out With It offers a fresh perspective on our obsession with physical perfection and an exploration of what our voice, and our vulnerabilities, means to each of us. It sheds light on an ancient condition that afflicts approximately 4 million in the U.S. and 60 million people worldwide. In addition to experts, Katherine interviewed writers, actresses, musicians, social workers, psychologists, farmers, and financiers men and women of all walks of life who were working to overcome their speech problems. Combining memoir and investigative journalism, Out With It is an incredibly compelling, informative and heartwarming memoir about understanding and embracing one's self and the voice within"--Provided by publisher.

"A fresh, engaging account of a young woman's journey, first to find a cure for a lifelong struggle with stuttering, and ultimately to embrace the voice that has defined her character"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: England. Creation myth ; What should we do? ; Molded by mirrors ; Tactical warfare ; Art of flirting ; Erecting my own glass ceiling ; Mission for a cure; title: America. Tightrope of language ; Love as a medicine ; Role models ; Learning to let go.