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Stuttering, pretty fascinating if you ask me. A neurological problem or a personality disorder? I know two people who stutter. One is a tech guy here at work who really stutters badly. Often taking very long periods of time to say a sentence. I feel really bad for him. The other person I know has gradually curbed his stuttering over the years and only tends to stutter when he gets animated or heavily involved in a conversation. Tell me about your experience with stuttering or stutterers.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Thursday, 18 March 2004 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I only st-t-t-t-t-t-t... damn! st-t-t-t-t-t-t-utter on the Intern-n-n-n-n.... n-n-n-n-n-n-n....

― T-t-t-t-t-t-im, Thursday, 18 March 2004 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

you are so funny, Tim.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 18 March 2004 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks, Dirty V-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v....

― T-t-t-t-t-t-t-im, Thursday, 18 March 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

i find it really annoying, not fascinating

― D Aziz (esquire1983), Thursday, 18 March 2004 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

There's one student who comes in AV who stutters (although less so now than he did 18 months ago), and with him it definitely seems to be a nervous thing, although whether he's nervous because he stutters or stutters because he's nervous I don't know. I also never know whether I should try and predict what he's going to say, and put him out of his misery, so to speak, or let him finish - oftentimes in AV people are all asking for the same thing, so half the time you know what they're asking for.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 18 March 2004 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

My old, long-long-time ago girlfriend's older brother stutters. We stayed with him once when we took a trip together, and he's this massive, thick-necked, scary-looking guy. I was real intimidated, but his stutter sort of, I don't know, made him seem like he was as nervous about having me there as I was about being seen as the guy poking his baby sister (who was and still is older than me, I should add).

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 18 March 2004 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Aziz, do you find disabled people 'annoying' too?

― Strachey, Thursday, 18 March 2004 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i will stammer in certain situations.

personality thing for me. comes from insecurity & a lack of self-confidence. also, i talk too fast, and occasionally will run out of words before my thoughts catch up with them.

― Kingfish Cowboy (Kingfish), Thursday, 18 March 2004 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I never thought i'd say this horrible statement but "i hate to be un-PC" but people stuttering IS annoying. Are you telling me you don't feel any discomfort when you have to sit there and wait for someone to spit out what they're trying to say? I'm not saying i don't like the people or that they should be discriminated, i just thought i could give an honest opinion on a fucking message board. blow me.

― D Aziz (esquire1983), Thursday, 18 March 2004 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

i like it when you are angry. dont stop

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 18 March 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

fucking motherfuckers

― D Aziz (esquire1983), Thursday, 18 March 2004 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

cunt

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 18 March 2004 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

its a start

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 18 March 2004 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

It's frustrating, no doubt (which is different to 'annoying'), but imagine how frustrating it must be for the stammerer.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 18 March 2004 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

The the f-f-f-f-fresh p-p-p-prince is who I am
so tell my mother that I never wrote a whack jam
but some times I get n-nervous and start to stutter
and I f-fumble every word for word I utter
so I just try to ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-chill
but it gets worse-a but worse-a but-but-but worse still
I need the c-c-c-crowd to k-k-k-kick into it
they help me calm down and I can get through it

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 18 March 2004 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

everybody stutters one way or the other
so check out my message to you
as a matter of fact don't let nothing hold you back
if the scatman can do it so can you

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 18 March 2004 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

its a start

But not enough. D Aziz's essential humanity and love for his fellow man reconfirmed!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned Ragget's obsession with me confirmed as well!

― D Aziz (esquire1983), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

stuttering can not be *cured*, i think, but through speech therapy it's really easy to *hide* it (one of the tricks is to elongate vowels). it is in a way annoying. but mostly it must be infuriating for the people themselves when others finish their sentences.

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Everyone fills out their speech with, like, verbal tics and, uh, meaningless noises. It is only when the tic reaches a certain level that we call attention to it and name it as an affliction.

xpost

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

http://img.discogs.com/A/23386-001.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Funny. I've been looking for sound files of stuttering for years to no avail. Any ideas? Also sound files of Tourettes.

― Kenny G, Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I've had some neurological probs, and had a sudden onset of stuttering maybe 2 years ago. I'd never stuttered before at all, and all of a sudden it was excruciating and frustrating and embarrassing to get a complete sentence out. Whatever the neurological fuckup had been, it slowly improved and then went away completely within a month or so. I am very thankful that I haven't had the problem since.

I can't imagine the patience it would require, with yourself and with others, to have to deal with being a stutterer all the time.

― JA, Thursday, 18 March 2004 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

It doesn't annoy me. It makes me feel all empathetic and sorry for them. So I guess I patronize people with a stammer in order to boost my self-esteem. I don't know if that's worse than being irritated.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 18 March 2004 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it's really intriguing to remember that Nicholas Brendon (?), you know, Xander from "Buffy", is in reality a stutterer. So's ABC News's John Stossel. So ta-da, two examples of people who've had their stuttering treated.

I once had a teacher who was a major stutterer, but only with people older than her students (she was one of my grade school teachers). With us children and with children younger than us, she would have no problems at all talking with us. So it was really strange calling her up when I was thirteen and hearing her stutter so violently that I eventually felt sorry for her and ended the phone call as politely as I could. It could've been a personality disorder, but who knows for sure?

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 19 March 2004 05:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember seeing a brief television segment about stutterers wearing a earpiece that replays their words immediately after being said, and somehow this feedback helps them to not stutter. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

― oops (Oops), Friday, 19 March 2004 05:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I heard somewhere that Rowan Atkinson used to be a big stutterer, and he fixed it by elongating vowels and emphasing certain sounds, like "B", which is why Rowan Atkinson saying "Bob" is funny.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Friday, 19 March 2004 08:40 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

Is it still stuttering when people falter over specific words? I interviewed with a guy last week who could NOT say "African-Americans" without putting a bizzare pause after the first syllable of "Americans".

Like this:

"African-Am................ericans"

I didn't really notice until he did it three times in succession in the space of a minute or so.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 8 April 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

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