Stutter/Stammer

**piston broke** · 5th August 2010, 20:30

Originally Posted by Hitcher

It's all very well for you wankers to make fun of people who stutter/stammer, but I can tell you it's no laughing matter for those of us who suffer from this affliction. It's frustrating, not to mention embarrassing, because there's always some tit who thinks it's the most hilarious thing they've ever heard.

Us stammerers are all incoherent, ignornant, gibbering idiots who deserve to be humiliated and ridiculed. Yeah, right.

true but.
say,mellowwwwwwwwww.
we all have our cross

**Clockwork** · 6th August 2010, 11:26

FWIW I believe a stutter is where a sound is repeated several times whereas a stammer is when the speaker actually struggles to even begin the word.

If it's any consolation, Hitcher. It may help to regard the problem in the same way as Billy Connelly says of his outrageous clothing...

"It serves as a good Dickhead detector"

**DMNTD:Me** · 7th August 2010, 10:03

Originally Posted by Hitcher

It's all very well for you wankers to make fun of people who stutter/stammer, but I can tell you it's no laughing matter for those of us who suffer from this affliction. It's frustrating, not to mention embarrassing, because there's always some tit who thinks it's the most hilarious thing they've ever heard.

Us stammerers are all incoherent, ignornant, gibbering idiots who deserve to be humiliated and ridiculed. Yeah, right.

Bit like the mere mortals who have not had the benefit of a decent education eh?
Imagine that...not being able to spell with perfect accuracy...to fail with one's grammar?

Oh chortle! The higher one gets the mightier it feels!

**Pixie** · 7th August 2010, 10:09

Originally Posted by Maha

What is the difference?

IE: Matt McCarton goes....''to to to to to to to to be honest'' (using the whole word)
IE: Arkwright goes ''per per per per peeeeer perfect'' (using part of a word)
IE: Then theres the whole... draaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn out thing. (trouble with gettin one word out)
Which McCarton has a bit of trouble with also.

" Hi I'm Mat McCar C'car C'car C'car C'car......Fuckit! I'm changing my name to McBox!"

**Pixie** · 7th August 2010, 10:20

'es M m m m mad,sir

**Pixie** · 7th August 2010, 10:25

Originally Posted by Maha

I remember that add, John Rowles no less.
John Campbell does it to a certain degree....''do do do ya think''? and so on.

The "NZ TV interviewer stutter" Campbell learnt it from Holmes -it allows them to read the Teleprompt (slowly) while not allowing the interviewee to get a word in.

**cowpoos** · 7th August 2010, 22:33

Originally Posted by Hitcher

It's all very well for you wankers to make fun of people who stutter/stammer, but I can tell you it's no laughing matter for those of us who suffer from this affliction. It's frustrating, not to mention embarrassing, because there's always some tit who thinks it's the most hilarious thing they've ever heard.

Us stammerers are all incoherent, ignornant, gibbering idiots who deserve to be humiliated and ridiculed. Yeah, right.

To be fair bret...people who have varying levels of dyslexia,bad spelling and grammar get picked on a lot...on this site alot aswell....

**Pussy** · 7th August 2010, 23:04

Originally Posted by cowpoos

To be fair bret...people who have varying levels of dyslexia,bad spelling and grammar get picked on a lot...on this site alot aswell....

I've got a mild case of fucken tourettes....

**Owl** · 7th August 2010, 23:10

**PrincessBandit** · 7th August 2010, 23:11

Originally Posted by Pussy

I've got a mild case of fucken tourettes....

But you're so polite about it we luffs you anyways.

**cowpoos** · 8th August 2010, 10:02

Originally Posted by Pussy

I've got a mild case of fucken tourettes....

Which we barely notice because of your other, more prominent issues

**nosebleed** · 8th August 2010, 10:34

Originally Posted by Maha

Im no expert at quirky little human speach things but, maybe those that have trouble getting the words out first up are thinking to far ahead of what they have to say?

As a stutterer/stammerer myself, that's the theory I was given as a kid by the 'specialist'.
Given that this was back in the good old days (TM) the amount of credence I give it though is questionable since I was probably also moments away from Electric Shock Treatment or even quite possibly a course of leeches.

"S"'s are my cross to bear, and "fuckit" fast became the best tool in the box.

**Maha** · 8th August 2010, 16:15

Originally Posted by nosebleed

As a stutterer/stammerer myself, that's the theory I was given as a kid by the 'specialist'.
Given that this was back in the good old days (TM) the amount of credence I give it though is questionable since I was probably also moments away from Electric Shock Treatment or even quite possibly a course of leeches.

"S"'s are my cross to bear, and "fuckit" fast became the best tool in the box.

I had the same trouble as a kid. I used to speak way to fast. Was never at the chronic stage (if there is such a term) but grew out of it I guess? I didn't have treatment or speech therapy of any sort, just seemed to eventually manage what came out of my mouth?

**Motu** · 8th August 2010, 17:53

Stuttering used to be blamed on lefties being forced to be right handers,and there was enough evidence to claim that....but it didn't stop stuttering world wide.I just missed out on being ''corrected'' in my handedness - my primary school headmaster had been a forced right hander,and would have none of it in his school.I still ended up with a bit of a stutter.

I always thought my bad handwriting was because I was lefthanded (and we had to use fountain pens!),although later I found many lefthanders who had beautiful handwriting.I have since found bad handwriting is a common symptom of dyslexia.Another thing I found out about dyslexics is that they think in pictures (3D),and that it is a very fast way to think.The mental pictures running away faster than the mouth can keep up? How many stutterer's are dyslexic?