Stuttering

slowmotiondaydream

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Does anyone here suffer from stuttering?
Its pretty much a disorder that affects the control and co-ordination of speech movements. e.g. repetition of letters in a word or anything like that.

It seems as if I'm starting to stutter more then ever now, yet not to the point where i would call myself a sufferer.
In conversations i would think sentences up normally, I also write normally but when i talk, thats where it messes me up and embarrasses me. I tend to mix past and present tenses, I would pronounce the simplest words incorrectly, and also repeat words subconsciously.

I've read teens and young adults may have developed social and anxiety-related difficulties, as an example being a fear of talking on the phone, or a negative self-image.

Those factors i can very much relate to, and also shyness...not being about to talk as much as the people around you, thinking you would make a fool out of yourself when you do say something incorrectly.

Does anyone think they might have a problem with talking, or stuttering?
 

Starry

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I don't really have a problem with it - But when I get nervous I tend to stutter a little bit - I once recorded myself rambling on about nothing in particular, (I was trying to convince myself not to hate my voice) though I ended up talking about myself stuttering lol. I wrote a transctript of it, part of which looked like this:

Um... And AGAIN with the ‘Um!’ Um, and again. Um yeah, I I reco I II II I w ww wwww wanted to record this because I need t to to find out if my voice can sound at all natural and … ... ... Normal uh, during an example of, of of ordinary conversation. Though unless people have conversations that are this stutt (Laugh) this stuttery and this, um all over the place then it’s not exactly a normal conversation, but , but um, yeah. I recorde… I’ll explain: I recorded my… Um …

lol, oh the shame at being so incoherent, I can type and think perfectly coherently...

I didn't realise just how much I did it lol, then because I noticed it, I did it more lol. It's not a big problem, it just happens occassionally. (A few times a day perhaps, on just a few words) I'm doing it less since I stopped thinking about it.

I tend to mis-pronounce words too, and then have to repeat them to say them correctly.

I have a problem with saying 'Um' and 'yeah' too much too lol. And long pauses where there shouldn't be pauses. It's like my brain just freezes on me momentarily. My brain just can't work in a coherent manner when I'm talking if I'm feeling at all nervous lol...

I try not to worry about it though, as I said it's not a big problem.
 

slowmotiondaydream

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lol…never thought to actually record my voice and determine it like that, I’ll be trying your method soon enough on my computer if I can’t find a tape. But I suppose with your consecutive way of saying ‘umm’ and ‘yeah’ arise when you’re simply trying to think of thinking to say.
You know where you said
‘And long pauses where there shouldn't be pauses. It's like my brain just freezes on me momentarily’
(sorry, don’t know how to use that quote function on here)
I can very much relate to that, when I talk in any conversation I surprisingly get myself into, the pauses arise when I think what I am about to say, which causes the other person to become bored with this stupid long pause. (or perhaps that’s just my unavoidable paranoia that visits me occasionally). Oh yes and the delightful brain freezes lol
Come to think of it, I think I have more difficulty talking rather than you, on what you have said already here.

I see you’re from Birmingham, I’ve read it started snowing there.
:p abit random, don’t mind me
 

Starry

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slowmotiondaydream said:
lol…never thought to actually record my voice and determine it like that, I’ll be trying your method soon enough on my computer if I can’t find a tape. But I suppose with your consecutive way of saying ‘umm’ and ‘yeah’ arise when you’re simply trying to think of thinking to say.

Lol, I hope my method proves useful to you.

The 'Um's' and 'yeah's don't just arrise when I'm trying to think what to say, I wish thay did though - I can know exactly what I'm going to say and they still appear, it's a reflex thing, that I really can't control lol.


slowmotiondaydream said:
You know where you said
‘And long pauses where there shouldn't be pauses. It's like my brain just freezes on me momentarily’
(sorry, don’t know how to use that quote function on here)
I can very much relate to that, when I talk in any conversation I surprisingly get myself into, the pauses arise when I think what I am about to say, which causes the other person to become bored with this stupid long pause. (or perhaps that’s just my unavoidable paranoia that visits me occasionally). Oh yes and the delightful brain freezes lol
Come to think of it, I think I have more difficulty talking rather than you, on what you have said already here.

Yes, exactly. I'm sorry if you do have more difficulty talking than me though. I always feel so paranoid and stupid lol.

The quote function is easy btw - Just click on 'Quote' instead of 'Reply', you can just delete parts of the message that you don't want out of it before typing your reply. :)

slowmotiondaydream said:
I see you’re from Birmingham, I’ve read it started snowing there.
:p abit random, don’t mind me

I don't mind randomness lol.

Yes, it's been snowing lol. I was in the back garden earlier with my dog lol. It was very funny as she's never seen snow before lol so she was a bit perplexed. :lol: (She's only just turned 1)
 

slowmotiondaydream

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It was very funny as she's never seen snow before lol so she was a bit perplexed. :lol: (She's only just turned 1)[/quote]

I think I've got it now.

You wish your dog a happy b'day, my little one is turning 1 in May.

...just out of pure curiosity, how old are you?
 

Dill

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LOL. sorry to cut in guys. :D

But stuttering is one of my worst symptoms of SA. Its like a cant speak English. And I'm getting pretty used to the expressions people make when I use future tense for when I'm describing the present.

NEways I'm working on it!
 

slowmotiondaydream

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man! i didnt end up getting that quote function working :(

I'm 19 Starry 8)


Its like a cant speak English. And I'm getting pretty used to the expressions people make when I use future tense for when I'm describing the present.

I reckon Dill, i feel so illiterate and embarrassed when that happens to me.

Good Luck with it
 

Starry

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Dill said:
But stuttering is one of my worst symptoms of SA. Its like a cant speak English. And I'm getting pretty used to the expressions people make when I use future tense for when I'm describing the present.

NEways I'm working on it!

I hope you can get your problem sorted out. :D

slowmotiondaydream said:
man! i didnt end up getting that quote function working :(

I'm 19 Starry 8)

Well, you managed to get a quote in that message lol.

Okay lol.
 
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