About the Tiger Analogy of Stuttering Acceptance
Follow the timeline chronicling (is that a word?) the formation of the Tiger Analogy of Stuttering Acceptance. Let's begin...
In 1970, Fellow stutterer, Joseph Sheehan created the brilliant Iceberg Analogy of Stuttering which is still used today.
One sunny day, fellow stutterer Greg went to the zoo to play with the baby tigers. He had a blast.
The Tiger Analogy was created by fellow stutterer, Greg. He first talked about it on his podcast. Listen. Transcript.
Daniele, who also stutters and draws stuttering comics, was inspired to create a tiger character (which you see all over this website).
A fad started among stuttering community on Twitter of keeping a tiger plush toy at work.
A name was needed for the tiger so Daniele consulted a group of fellow stutterers and stutter-friendly people on Twitter.
Ti-Ger was chosen for the name. It’s written to imply a stutter (a block, actually).
Daniele created a Twitter avatar of Ti-Ger for a fellow stutterer (and then made a button out of it)
Daniele created a smiley version of Ti-Ger (:o]
Ti-Ger.org registered as a domain name
Greg started spelling ‘tiger’ as ‘ti-ger’ on his blog in reference to not letting your stuttering take control of your life
Ti-Ger.org launched
Heather created a blog on her Ti-Ger! The Adventures of an Apprentice Met Tech Ti-Ger
A discussion about the analogy took place on a German stuttering forum.
A University professor said "What an awesome website! This is how it should be rather than having 'experts' try to change you."
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To be continued...
