Posted: 1/29/2012 1:45:51 PM EDT
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When I was a kid I knew a bunch of stutterers, some so bad it was painful to listen to them.
I almost never run into one now. I did work with a man who stuttered pretty badly some years ago, but he was from an older generation. I'm guessing we catch this early on now in school. Just an observation. Now that I think about it, I used to see people with smallpox scars too. Dang I'm old. |
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I had it bad as a kid. Speech therapy classes for years at school. Didn't help that I also had thick glasses.
It went away around 6th grade - strangely when the speech classes ended when I went to a new school. In high school I was chosen to give the afternoon announcements over the school PA system - go figure. rongorongo |
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I stuttered as a kid. It was hell. Complete hell. I had a speech therapist when I was in 3rd or 4th grade. Taught me to speak in a cadence, sort of drawing a line of a box with every syllable. Eventually it went away, although to this day I'll stammer every once in a while. Don't ever tease someone that stutters. Just let them finish. Believe me, they're dying of frustration, embarrassment and anger inside. And the anger is at themselves. Please. |
| I worked with a guy a few years ago that had a pretty sever stutter....interestingly, when he has in comfortable settings the stutter was very reduced....in big meetings it was really bad. He's the only guy I've known or even seen as an adult that had a bad stutter |
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Quoted: I stuttered as a kid. It was hell. Complete hell. I had a speech therapist when I was in 3rd or 4th grade. Taught me to speak in a cadence, sort of drawing a line of a box with every syllable. Eventually it went away, although to this day I'll stammer every once in a while. Don't ever tease someone that stutters. Just let them finish. Believe me, they're dying of frustration, embarrassment and anger inside. And the anger is at themselves. Please. Sounds exactly like my story. Before I went to a speech therapist as a kid, I developed a weird British accent by me trying to correct it by myself. My problem was I was trying to get the next word out as fast as my brain processed. I stuttered very bad and it was extremely embarrassing. At 50 years old now, I still have to consciously slow down my speech or I'll stutter. The good thing is no one can tell now I was a bad stutterer, but it does come out on rare occasions. |
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I've never ever made fun of a stutterer. It's GOT to be highly frustrating for them.
My Minister's son stutters. Oddly enough, he told me that even though they had spent thousands on speech therapy over the years, it actually improved the most after watching "The King's Speech" for some reason.
That's exactly what reminded me of this, my Mom was talking about that movie today. |
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I worked with a guy a few years ago that had a pretty sever stutter....interestingly, when he has in comfortable settings the stutter was very reduced....in big meetings it was really bad. He's the only guy I've known or even seen as an adult that had a bad stutter same here. in a work setting, you could barely understand the guy. I think his stuttering had something to do with an anxiety problem. Drinking at happy hour after work would magically cure his stuttering. |
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I thought about this a few years ago, noticing the same thing. I wonder how come nobody is like Mel Tillis anymore. Yeah, Mel! I'm guessing we have better methods of treating it. Not sure though. From what I'm reading here, maybe everyone is on Prozac and it cures them. 
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I thought about this a few years ago, noticing the same thing. I wonder how come nobody is like Mel Tillis anymore. Yeah, Mel! I'm guessing we have better methods of treating it. Not sure though. From what I'm reading here, maybe everyone is on Prozac and it cures them. From the last thread on the subject, the consensus was that speech class remedied a lot of it. I remember a lot of kids had to go to speech therapy when I was in elementary. Not until recently have I began to stutter though. |
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ALL YOU ALL SOUTHERN thinking mo-fos need to watch MOONRUNNERS, from the latw 70s. It was the movie that Dukes of Hazzard is based on.
You will hear homeboy stuttering his ass off and say he'll disguise his voice on the phone. It's awesome.. You all want to know about living. |