i m constantly thinking ahead as to how i m going to get through it without st. ..without stammering. what kind.? what do you find difficult to say? so, i do find my name. my name is quite a difficult sound. ifind hard letters, so. let s begin with b. my surname is quite a hard word for me to say because it s just a very. it s a very hard. it s a very hard sound. you know, you kind of have to go straight in with that word. and if someone says to me, what s your name? that s where i, you know. if the pressure s put on me to say it, that s when i find it really hard to. ..to get the words out. but i can, yeah. i mean, with a lot of breathing techniques. i have learnt to say it, but i d rather not, and i do try and avoid it. that is extraordinary, to go through life. your name is felicity baker, but it s quite something to go through life not being able to say your own name. it s hard because everyone else says their name with such ease and you kind of feel like you should be able to. a
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cathcart towers hotel. john cleese, who wrote the film, approached me and said he was writing a heist movie in which one of the main characters has a stammer and can t, at the vital moment, give the information, which i thought was a very funny idea, not in a way of mocking anyone or anything like that. itjust is a situation that might occur. and john was very. john knew that my father stammered. he said, i mean, can we talk about it? and how would the stammer manifest itself? so we talked through all the various aspects of the stammer. and in the end, i said, well, i ll do it. i wouldn t have done it when my father was alive. i don t think i could have done, really. but i ll do it because, you know, it s sort of. i can be more sympathetic, perhaps and how difficult do you think it was for him to cope with? i never spoke about it with him. this was really. you know, i can see now, a major, major sort of problem to our understanding of it,
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he only started stammering ten years ago after a head injury playing sport. it s taken me a lot longer than i i m kind of ashamed to admit maybe how long it really took me to fully accept that this is. ..this is who i am. and it s not. it s not entirely who i am, but it s something that is a part of me, and i m ok with it. i go to speech therapy and regular therapy, because i want my problems to sound good. laughter. he threw himself into the spotlight, a finalist on america s got talent, using his stammer, or stutter, as they call it in america, to make him a star. going on stage was something that made me feel. ..just like a human being again, like, people were listening to me again, because something about stuttering that i had to find out the hard way is, you know, a lot of people are impatient or they re.