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Thread #34619   Message #468690
Posted By: Mrrzy
23-May-01 - 11:48 AM
Thread Name: Songs about stuttering / stammering
Subject: RE: BS: Stammered and stuttered pathetically
Good example, radriano. Also, for those of you who bowl, remember the old trick Count Your Steps? Throws the approach completely off. There seems to be something about trying to monitor an automatic process that derails the automatic process, which if left alone would just work fine. There is a theory that what stutterers have, rather than what they lack, is too much monitoring of their breathing to allow for the automatic overrides required by speech. Speech is, after all, holding your breath with patterns in how you let it out. Holding your breath is highly unnatural when your head is above water. Not that I think that dunking stutterers would work!