Do we Over analyze it?

[Charlieb]

I've been thinking for the past day or two about this, and I've been watching so called fluent people closely to monitor their behaviour. I've noticed a lot of people stutter or mumble over words in the normal course of their speech and they don't seem to take any notice of it.

Do you ever think that we over analyze ourselves? I know that when I stammer or have a bad block I could speed the next ten minutes or even days beating myself up over it, then trying to figure out why I stammered in the first place, Was it a fear / avoidance issue or was it just my stammer.

Is this just another habit in the cycle that needs to be broken?

Charlie.

[Roley]

I suspect most of us do that, which is one reason this site stays pretty busy. When non-stutterers bumble when try to talk, it's more related to what they want to say rather than having trouble saying it.

[Mullen]

With the recent recession fears I have watched U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson doing several press conferences. I don't know whether he has a stutter, but he certainly has a lot of trouble getting his words out. It doesn't seem to bother him or anyone around him though, and I've never come across any comment as to the way he speaks.

Perhaps stutterers just have very poor speech coordination and a tendency to panic when having to exhibit their flawed speaking skills to others.

[Mullen]

I just check Google, and Henry Paulson does have a stutter (and a hell of lot more courage and ambition than I'll ever have!).

[emily445455]

No one has totally fluent speech. But stutterers preceive their disfluent speech much differently than non-stutterers. I believe, stuttering is very much a mental thing...we sometimes think we're going to stutter on a word, so we do...we worry about people hearing us, so we stutter worse...etc.

[Standingtall]

I think we give our stutter too much energy, too much of our time and thoughts. Hate to admit it, but i rather be int he spot light not my stutter. Today, i act like it does not bother me when i have a block and just continue with what i have to say. I notice that the majority of people i talk with, judging by the body language, is not bothered by it either.

[Roley]

I just check Google, and Henry Paulson does have a stutter (and a hell of lot more courage and ambition than I'll ever have!).

Not to get us on a famous names kick, but James Carville, who is/was a comentator on CNN and was involved with Bill Clinton's first run for the presidency is a stutterer. I doubt if many people at all notice that; he sounds like he's bumbling around for words, but it's stuttering.

And not to get us on a political kick, but I'm sure Paulson's having to do a song and dance about the US economic mess doesn't help his fluency.