“I feel like if I didn’t have it (stutter), I don’t think I’d be where I’m at today because it really motivated me to work hard and to get better on the race track,” says Masson Massey.
NASCAR Xfinity Series driver Mason Massey may not be a household name, but the Georgia native is among more than 80 million people worldwide who stutter, a communication disorder that once kept him from winning a race because he didn’t want to be interviewed. Massey was about 12 years old, and he was leading a Legends car race. He was new to Legends racing, and it occurred to him during the event that if he won, he had to be interviewed on the public address system on the frontstretch.
Three-quarters of those will recover by late childhood, but about 1 percent are left with a long-term problem. Massey is one of those whose stutter remained. “When you’re growing up with a stutter it’s always really hard, especially if you’re racing cars because you have to talk so much, communicate with your team, and do interviews,” Massey says. “As I was growing up as a little kid, it would eat me up inside if I stuttered in front of anybody, make me anxious and get me out of whack.
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