(Please don't turn this into a joke thread - this is a very serious subject for me)
I was a profound stutterer as a kid.
I seem to have "grown out of it" in high school, to the amazement of my speech therapist. Most people who know me today have a hard time believing I ever stuttered.
There are still some things I can't say -- like Grand Ole Opry. But I learned to get around it by NOT trying to say "Grand Ole Opry", and saying "Grando Loppry" instead. It sounds just the same, but is a "work around". There are other things I say "instead" of what I know I can't say.
I still can't say (slowing down typing for this) "salt and pepper shaker". (It usually comes out "salt and shekker paper", and if I try harder, it gets embarrassingly worse.) I haven't come up with a work around for that, so I never ask for them at the same time. "please pass the salt".... "and the pepper".
I never stutter when I preach or sing. Ever. (OK, if I'm REALLY tired, or I get flustered, I'll slip up occasionally)
But we had a lady in our church (the wife of my Deacon Chairman) who was a stutterer, and any time I got around her, I stuttered like a fool. I used to avoid her like crazy, til one day I had to explain why I never talk to her. It was a bit embarrassing, but she understood.
Anybody else stutter, or have trouble speaking?
I was a profound stutterer as a kid.
I seem to have "grown out of it" in high school, to the amazement of my speech therapist. Most people who know me today have a hard time believing I ever stuttered.
There are still some things I can't say -- like Grand Ole Opry. But I learned to get around it by NOT trying to say "Grand Ole Opry", and saying "Grando Loppry" instead. It sounds just the same, but is a "work around". There are other things I say "instead" of what I know I can't say.
I still can't say (slowing down typing for this) "salt and pepper shaker". (It usually comes out "salt and shekker paper", and if I try harder, it gets embarrassingly worse.) I haven't come up with a work around for that, so I never ask for them at the same time. "please pass the salt".... "and the pepper".
I never stutter when I preach or sing. Ever. (OK, if I'm REALLY tired, or I get flustered, I'll slip up occasionally)
But we had a lady in our church (the wife of my Deacon Chairman) who was a stutterer, and any time I got around her, I stuttered like a fool. I used to avoid her like crazy, til one day I had to explain why I never talk to her. It was a bit embarrassing, but she understood.
Anybody else stutter, or have trouble speaking?
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