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Johnson was president of his high school class, captain of the football, baseball, and basketball teams, and valedictorian. He spent 2 years at a local college before moving to Iowa City, Iowa, to attend the
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The stutterer, if I may speak for him as a type, does not want pity any more than he wants contempt, but he does want the understanding which the normal respect of one human being for another makes possible. He is a human being, trying to make a stutterer's adaptation to a world of glib
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a collection of selected portions of transcriptions of hundreds of his talks, organized by
Dorothy Moeller, provided further general semantic insights. He also published many articles in his lifetime, in journals, including
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Johnson began to stutter when he was around the age of five or six. He requested to be sent to schools to fix his stutter and was willing to try anything to cure it, but it proved to be lifelong.
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