When you have to teach yourself how to say sounds, when you have to be highly concerned about pronunciation, it gives you a certain awareness of sonics, of the auditory experience.” “It’s made me the performer that I am and the storyteller that I strive to be. “But I don’t look at my disability as a weakness,” said Gorman. The girl who would grow up to perform in front of Lin-Manuel Miranda, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton and Malala Yousafzai struggled for years not to say “poetwy.” “But for me, there was this other echelon of pressure, which is: Can I say that which needs to be said?” Gorman has labored to perfect sounds most people take for granted. In fact, like her predecessor Angelou and the president-elect, she grapples with a speech impediment.Īll writers, she said, experience anxiety about the quality of their work. Gorman is a lot better at it now, but still working on her confidence as a public speaker.
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