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posted July 20, 2005 08:45 PM |
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Lingerstink
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posted July 21, 2005 12:14 AM |
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(Off topic)
What a delightfully random bump.
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My grandpa used to stutter. He doesn't have a problem now, but my mother always reminds me for some reason (maybe it's because I'm 15 and enjoy mocking my peers), but I myself have some trouble with words sometimes. It especially sucks in school during presentations and whatnot.
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posted July 21, 2005 09:30 AM |
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I keep forgetting about this thread. Nice memories too. Thanks for reviving this Peacemaker. 
Though I think this might be better off in Other Side. It sucks though how some people seem not to get the post. It's truly something that you cannot understand until you experience it for yourself. And there is no way I'm looking for pity. This thread is for anyone out there who also stutters or knows someone who stutters. So that people can better understand stuttering. It helps to know that there are other people out there who stutter and are willing to be open about it. There are many many people who are downright ashamed of how they talk, when they shouldn't at all. Most, no almost all, severe stutterers are terrified of any situation where they are forced to speak. The phone, restaurants, job interviews.
I made a presentation about this topic in my health class a couple years ago. And I did a demonstration with a few students and I taught them what it was like to stutter, by tensing up their throat, tongue, neck, lips, etc...
And I wouldn't let them finish their word until I said they could. So I told them to order a Ginger Ale. And to stutter on the word Ginger. Then I just stood there and let each person stutter until I told them to continue with the word. Some for a second or two, some for over even ten seconds. Afterwards I asked them how it felt and they told me it was frustrating.
So then I asked them how it would feel if I made them go up and do that McDonalds in front of a bunch of people and do the same thing. They told me they would be extremely embarrassed to do something like.
Then I told them to imagine if I followed them around all day and constantly at random unexpected times I made them stutter on words until I said they could continue with their sentence. I was told they would get annoyed with me for doing that to them.
So then I told them to imagine if they couldn't blame me or someone else for making them stutter all day and that they had to deal with the fact that they were incapable of talking like everyone else. And then they truly understood what it was like to stutter. They truly understood what sort of pain goes through the mind of someone who stutters and how that the fear and anxiety only makes the stuttering far worse, because it's cause is from tension, which of course will be more present when under anxiety and stress. It's a vicious cycle that can only be stopped by one thing. Self-acceptance.
The mmore the stutter accepts his or her stuttering, the less there is fear of talking, the less there is stress, the less there is anxiety, and only then can stuttering can be improved for the better.
I seriously hope people don't take stuttering as a joke after reading this, because the more people joke about stuttering, the more the stutterer thinks that stuttering is wrong and makes them less of a person.
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posted December 14, 2008 07:36 AM |
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Anyone else here at HC stutter? I feel like bumping this.
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posted December 14, 2008 07:51 AM |
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Do you still stutter? Or has it been reduced to "comfortable levels"? For some reason I wouldn't think you're the guy to stutter...
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RedSoxFan3
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posted December 14, 2008 07:55 AM |
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It's at comfortable levels now. But I still do it.
It doesn't bother me though. The only time when I have trouble speaking is when I see someone I know, they aren't looking at me, and I'm unsure if they want to talk to me. The other time is when I have to say my last name, begins with an S and I have trouble with those sounds. And then saying thank you to a waitor or waitress. TH is another difficult sound for me.
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Azagal
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posted December 14, 2008 09:04 AM |
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Funny how immediately I left this thread I saw a stutterer.
The laureate for chemistry Roger Tsien is a stutterer... and he actually did pretty damn well for a stutterer considering the discussion he was in (huge audience, very difficult questions, people critizing you). He only stuttered (stutter in the sence of r-r-repeating what he said) 3 times in 90 minutes under such circumstances.
So I believe your mindset plays a huge role in this, no? I mean if your embarrased you're just going to stutter more but that guy he just kept talking like there was no tommorow  . In a good way of course.
Loved that debate... wonderful to see that so intelligent people are a real "Menschen".
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william
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posted June 16, 2009 04:09 PM |
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Revived.
I sometimes stutter just because I'm usually a nervous kind of person and since I am a computer geek then I am generally not going to be as good at communication than other non geek people would have because they communicate a lot better than what I do.
I also can't say certain words ending with ng such as gang, wrong, ranga etc. Well I can say them but they sound like gan, ron and rana.
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posted June 17, 2009 04:55 AM |
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I stutter sometimes because I talk too fast because I think too fast. Really most times I have to "artificially" talk slower because what's on my mind and what I want to say would come out very fast, at the speed of my thoughts. 
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posted June 17, 2009 05:27 AM |
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@Death: Same here, but only when I'm talking Spanish, and not frequently enough for it to be a problem.
Must be due to the fact that Spanish is my second language.
I get tongue tied pretty badly at times. I just laugh it off and restart my sentence.
Darned pronunciation of r's and l's. 
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Rarensu
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posted June 17, 2009 08:45 AM |
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I knew a guy who has stutter blocks. He starts talking and then he gets to a word and then suddenly instead of saying the word his head starts shaking around like he's having a seizure. It's usually triggered by the sound that the word begins with, some sounds bother him more than others. When he stops trying to say the word then his head stops shaking. I met him in my singing class. When he was singing, his stutter never bothered him even a little bit. He wasn't a particularly good singer, but it was the only time he could communicate comfortably.
I have something similar to a stutter. It only bothers me for a few minutes each year, triggered by extreme emotional uncomfortably. I try to speak, but my tongue and jaw tighten up so I can't articulate anything. I can get rid of it by forcing myself to relax.
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winterfate
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posted June 17, 2009 08:54 AM |
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Sounds painful Rarensu. 
I have a classmate who stutters as well, but he gets it really bad. I'm sure some people would laugh at the whole ordeal, but I don't see what's so funny about not being able to communicate.
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posted June 17, 2009 11:32 PM |
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I have a classmate who stutters as well, but he gets it really bad. I'm sure some people would laugh at the whole ordeal, but I don't see what's so funny about not being able to communicate.
That's nothing, people find people with handicaps funny. Strange right?
Not really. This is humanity for you.
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