Adrian Peterson…Sports Illustrated
Adrian Peterson
Adrian Lewis Peterson is an NFL running back for the Washington Redskins.
He chronicled in 2013 how he had confidence off the football field, but struggled in the classroom. “Growing up it was rough starting out. Every kid wants to be normal. My mom and dad noticed I had a speech impediment at the age of four. When a lot of the other kids were doing a lot of talking, I shied away from it. We had to read aloud in class and I struggled. The whole day it seemed like none of my words would come out.”
As a result, his confidence was shaken, “You hear in the background the snickering and laughing and giggling, but from that point I understood, ‘Adrian you stutter. Let’s accept it and move forward.”
“I didn’t change who I was. I was still active with my sports. And in school if I had to do a presentation, it may take me five minutes, 10 minutes or even 30 minutes. But I got up there, stood strong and did it,” Peterson iterated to First Coast News which was published by The Stuttering Foundation.
