Was sent this great article about Pittsburgh Penguin Bryan Rust who stutters.
After seemingly every home game — with occasional exceptions because of injuries — Rust will hold meetings with children who deal with a stutter (and a parent) in a hallway adjacent to the Penguins’ dressing room.
In addition to supplying tickets to the game, Rust poses for photos, autographs merchandise and above all else, just talks to the kids about their common trait.
“Obviously, something that’s close to my heart,” Rust said Jan. 25 at the team’s facility in Cranberry. “Something that’s really important to me and my family. Something that might get overlooked. … It’s something that I’ve gone through, and I’ve tried my best to go through that adversity and tried to get better. It’s something that for me was important because it gets overlooked.”
I am a Penguins fan, so this was great to read. I’m trying to get more articles and examples of celebrities and athletes who stutter – or, I should say, aren’t fluent – when they’re speaking on television. Please pass them along as you find them, and I can build up a separate page.
I think just seeing people who aren’t fluent on television is really important to young people who stutter and others going through this journey. We are too often surrounded by fast-paced fluent speech that we think we’re expected to emulate.
Hello. I stutter. 