Communication, Communication, Communication

Over the past week, I've had to make quite a lot more dreaded phone calls. And it's made me see that stuttered speech actually has very little effect on communication.

For several phone calls, I had to leave a message that included all kinds of stuttering—repetitions, hesitations, and so on. Each time, though, the person called back and didn't seem at all bothered by the bumpiness of my message.

So maybe all my efforts to stutter more easily and in a more dignified way completely miss the mark.

The real issue is communication, and if I accomplish that, then everything else is irrelevant, including whether I stuttered or how I stuttered.