Neal Chapman Post 1
My strength in this years writing class will be reading and understanding hidden messages. I have always been able to see the hidden points in dense writing. I can also sit down and read for hours. If the book can get my attention, usually it can hold me. my worst problem would be getting my point across. I have always had a hard time communicating with other people. whether it was my speech impediment back in elementary, my stutter when i have ever had to talk in front of a group of people, or the fact that I can't seem to write my thoughts down on paper. the only time i have ever been able to get thought across is when I talk to someone I have known for awhile. My strengths are pretty basic so I am going to be talking about my problems. 

Ever since I was born i had a speech impediment, sometimes it sounded like a lisp, but other times i could talk normal. I was made fun of for it, which made me never want to talk to anyone. I was in time in speech therapy for most of my 6 years in elementary school. While it did help to get rid of the lisp, I still could not say the letter r. This made me just never want to talk to anyone which still is in effect today. Even after i fought my way past a speech impediment I was still unable to talk to large groups of people.

When ever I get in front of a large group of people I develop a stutter. I don't know why I do it, I just do. I have always done it also, ever since I can remember I have done it. I can remember specifically a couple times in middle school when i was forced to stand up in front of the class. every other word I would repeat three to four times. I was so embarrassed that I never wanted to talk to anyone ever again. this would lead to and extra 4 years of never wanting to say anything. When I didn't want to talk, most people would have thought I should have been good at writing my ideas down but I am not even good at that.

For some reason I can't write my thoughts down on paper. I have never been able to successfully write down my ideas for some reason. I will have a good, different idea but what I write down just sounds like an idiot wrote. the only way i know to successfully get my idea across is to talk to someone i know who can help me draw the idea out of my mind. It can't be a group of people because then I will get nervous and start to stutter. I also had a hard time making close friends because i had never wanted to be the first person to talk. I always would wait till they made the first move, which makes making close friends a hard time.