I was in my 12th grade English class. We had to give a 15 minute oral speech and I chose to do mine on 'stuttering'. I figured it would have a stronger impact, since I did stutter pretty badly back then. I spent about three weeks on research for this speech (the first time ever!) and enjoyed it. The day of the speech, I was extremely nervous like everybody else, but at the same time I was really excited. It kind of bothered me when the teacher stopped me after the 15 minutes were up, because I thought it was due to my stuttering. The teacher was just treating me like any other student, though. The best is when I sat down and the girl next to me (a popular cheerleader) told me that she didn't know anything about stuttering and she thanked me. I was so proud of myself that day, I don?t think my feet ever touched the ground. It was the fact that I touch at least one person that day and made a difference. So, if you ever get a chance to do something for someone else, do it, because you don't know how it will effect that person. I want to say 'Thank You' to the cheerleader for those sweet, sweet words that day. It was the catalyst that got me to realize that the stuttering will never ever control me again.