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I have a hard time speaking sometimes, she says I sound pretty articulate to her. Even when I'm stuttering and obviously have a hard time finding words. It would not hurt for her to say, "Yes, you sometimes do have difficulty speaking, but people who know you know you are smart."
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Oh, this I do recognise - ex-T did it all the time, and it made me feel that either she was not listening properly, or I was failing to express what I meant (though not for lack of trying!), or I was just... wrong, which made me a stupid client for thinking something was wrong that wasn't.
I appreciate that sometimes clients are wrong, and have distorted views of themselves that are not what others see (in fact, I'm sure that's true a lot of the time). But there has to be a way for a T to convey that without sounding as if they are dismissive of what the client tries to say.
