Blog Post 21: Perseverance- Annie Bohannon

From the time I learned to talk until middle school I had a speech impediment. It was difficult because I would consistently go to speech and work on fixing it but it would never get any better. Twice a week I would get taken out of class and would go to speech where I would spend the entire time working on practicing pronouncing letters right. Although I did get my fair share of teasing from this that was never what bothered me. It bothered me that no matter how much I worked at it nothing would ever change. It was incredibly frustrating to never get any better. In speech you get paired up with kids who also have similar problems so you always get taken out of class at the same time. I would watch as kids I had worked with for months graduated from speech while I stayed time and time again. But after 6 years of work I finally got better and graduated from speech.