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Why some people suffer from a stutter

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Re: Why some people suffer from a stutter

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Post by therealx »

HappySweeney wrote: post #21

I got rid of my childhood stutter near instantly when someone told me that it was becuase I was thinking three sentences ahead of where my mouth was. All I needed to do was slow down the "speech in your head". I could still think ahead; I just needed to not internally vocalize my future words, and it all went away like magic.

Same! Bad stutter in early elementary school, but fine later after some speech therapy. Mine was most likely a sign of the ADHD to come, as well as a dash of my tourettes.

Re: Why some people suffer from a stutter

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Post by panabee »

dmitryminkovsky wrote: post #65
anuragsoni wrote: post #26

My stutter has been my primary source of stress/anxiety for that last 12 years. Its impacted my time in college and then later at Grad School. I've had good days and bad (more good days lately), but i'll never forget the terror I used to feel whenever I had to present something in front of other people. I skipped classes to avoid doing that, i bombed many a presentation because I had trouble with certain sentences an…

It’s ironic you stutter on A because I stutter on D and M, my initials, probably more than any other sounds. Stuttering is such a head game that I think it must be that you end up stuttering more on sounds that are more important to you. For example: I worked in finance a while and started stuttering on the word “million” more than I ever did before! Then I stopped working in finance and that basically went away. Sti…

this is a fascinating pattern. have you tried drinking or otherwise (legally) inducing a relaxed state to see if there's a difference? this could help isolate if anxiety or "overthinking" triggers the stuttering.

Re: Why some people suffer from a stutter

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Post by modi15 »

fiblye wrote: post #90
lymeeducator wrote: post #17

My young son, now 7 (no stutter), did stutter at age 4 and had some level of anxiety. My wife and I discovered that he has an allergy to annatto, a natural seed used for orange dye & nutty flavor, that triggered the stuttering. The stuttering was likely due to slight inflammation in his brain. In this case, slice of organic American (orange) cheese caused him to stutter within 10 minutes. Then we could tell when he h…

Oh wow, incredible comment. I looked this up and apparently allergies are pretty strongly linked to stuttering. It's a connection I'd never assume to be possible. As someone who sometimes has weeks of cluttered speech, and weeks where I'm perfectly fine, I'm now wondering if diet could be a contributing factor.

I get the stutter when Im anxious. I get anxious typically when I dont get enough me time. Regular doses of solitude keeps my stutter away.

Re: Why some people suffer from a stutter

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Post by ed25519FUUU »

lymeeducator wrote: post #17

My young son, now 7 (no stutter), did stutter at age 4 and had some level of anxiety. My wife and I discovered that he has an allergy to annatto, a natural seed used for orange dye & nutty flavor, that triggered the stuttering. The stuttering was likely due to slight inflammation in his brain. In this case, slice of organic American (orange) cheese caused him to stutter within 10 minutes. Then we could tell when he h…

Food allergy is one of the reasons I theorize many people find different seemingly unrelated symptoms disappear when either fasting or on a low carbohydrate diet (even things like seizures).

It alters your diet so dramatically and greatly reduces the types of processed foods you can eat.

Re: Why some people suffer from a stutter

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Post by gao8a »

I still stutter once in a while, much worse as a kid, heres what helped me:

1) Public speaking, I finished up to the old ACS level at a local toastmasters

2) Subconsciously building a wordlist that I stutter more than others, and using synonyms that don't

3) Playfully smiling and saying "Bleh!" out loud if I do catch myself stuttering, and repeating what I was trying to say.

Finally: To the well intentioned non-stutterer telling us to relax and slow down, go fuck yourself

Re: Why some people suffer from a stutter

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Post by licebmi__at__ »

gao8a wrote: post #96

I still stutter once in a while, much worse as a kid, heres what helped me: 1) Public speaking, I finished up to the old ACS level at a local toastmasters 2) Subconsciously building a wordlist that I stutter more than others, and using synonyms that don't 3) Playfully smiling and saying "Bleh!" out loud if I do catch myself stuttering, and repeating what I was trying to say. Finally: To the well intentioned non-stutt…

Hey man, hope you don't mind me asking, but what's the problem with telling someone who stutters to slow down?

Background: my son is diagnosed with TA, and he has a peculiar speech pattern, not sure if it's a kind of stutter. In my interpretation, he struggles to find the right word, and he goes back to correct the sentences he's speaking. The only advice that I can give him is to slow down and collect his thoughts, but the last thing I would like is to somehow make him feel bad.

Re: Why some people suffer from a stutter

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Post by vemv »

MaxBarraclough wrote: post #57

I think of a stutter as being akin to audio looping in a program where thread-starvation has prevented the buffer from being updated in time. That seems consistent with this article. Would be interested if someone knowledgeable could comment on this analogy.

I'm not sure I recall audio loops of say, 0.5s coming from a computer bug.

More frequently, computer audio glitches take You can reproduce this glitch by playing with the latency setting in an audio program (like Ableton).

Re: Why some people suffer from a stutter

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Post by implements »

IggleSniggle wrote: post #75
lymeeducator wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We noticed he was more tentative and starting to stutter around the winter holidays, but could not figure out what the pattern was. Then one early evening before dinner we gave him a slice of organic, orange American cheese (milk, salt, enzymes, annatto). He started stuttering shortly thereafter. He'd had ice cream the previous day with no issues. Then we noticed it after mac'n cheese. Upon reflection, his grandparen…

Fascinating. I also had an allergy to “orange” colored foods as a kid, but it looked like asthma, not a stutter. However, the very worst was orange soda, which was hospitalizing. I wonder if there was any relation to your son’s stutter.

Possibly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartrazine - a common food colouring with a history of possible adverse effects.
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