Err... Stutter. Do you...?

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OK, I'd like to know just how common stutter is among Aspies.

I stutter since I was about 9. Now I stutter here and there, mostly when I'm excited. Strange, I learned to speak early, I spoke in sentences when I was only one year old according to my parents.

I learned to cope with my stutter, but it is observable today, when I'm exactly 38 years old. I also tend to articulate sloppily, speed up, go into talking nonsense quite often.

I know it has been discussed before, but I'd like to see here what do you think/know about the supposed connection to AS/Autism.

My opinion on this is that there might be a significant part of autistic people whose problem with communication strongly affected by stutter and similar phrasing issues. Or rather stutter should be regarded as a symptom of a more complex/severe problem?

I stammer and trip over words all the time, but I don't think that's the same as stuttering. Sometimes I will get stuck and repeat syllables like a broken record a few times, but it's not generally the first sound of a word, which is what I thought stuttering was.

I may have language issues, so I looked it up in Wiki:

"Stuttering (alalia syllabaris), also known as stammering (alalia literalis or anarthria literalis), speech disorder in which the flow of speech is disrupted by involuntary repetitions and prolongations of sounds, syllables, words or phrases, and involuntary silent pauses or blocks in which the stutterer is unable to produce sounds.[1] The term stuttering is most commonly associated with involuntary sound repetition, but it also encompasses the abnormal hesitation or pausing before speech, referred to by stutterers as blocks, and the prolongation of certain sounds, usually vowels and semivowels. "

I usually stop by a vowel before a consonant, stress or prolong it and go on, or repeat a syllable several times. Sometimes it's worth to repeat the whole word or more. There are certain combinations of vowels and consonants that I somehow fear of to say, In those cases I try to find other words or expressions with the same or similar meaning.

Tripping over words may be a different from stuttering, I think.

I may be a special case. I have congenital nerve-deafness in my right ear, and auditory nerve damage in my left ear. I hear perfectly fine in my left ear, it just sounds like gibberish unless I concentrate and consciously piece what was said together.

I could only speak without significant slurring and stammering after spending a long time reading books aloud to myself, sometime around 12 years old.

Nowadays, the slurring has receded into a nonspecific accent which people confuse for Bostonian/German/British/Australian.

When I start talking about a subject which interests me, however, my annunciation can completely disintegrate back into a slurring mess. It takes a lot of self-control to keep excitement from letting the stuttering and slurring from entering my speech.

Ah, according to that, what I'm thinking might be the same thing. I thought stuttering and stammering were different.

Maybe there is a certain difference, as in the other topic currently involved in stutter it seems so. I should do some 'research', I'll do it when I have the time.

I stuttered the worst when I was around 7. I was even told off by teachers for doing it. I still stutter now, and guess I will forever. Although it is not so bad now, and I have gone through periods where it isn't bad at all.

I've always had a mild problem with tripping over words and stuttering - when nervous, such as when talking about something I feel passionately about then suddenly realise people are listening or focusing on me.

It's like my brain tries to get all the words out then suddenly realises 'Hang on...people are LOOKING!! !! O_O' and tries to put a sudden pause on my mouth, but not enough to get the words to stop coming out and so I'm stuck like a broken record until I can right myself.

I had language delays too - didn't really speak till 7 years old, had speech therapy classes for about five years as I couldn't say 'R', 'TH', 'SH', 'CH', 'B' and 'S'...I still can't say 'R' correctly, but it's hard to notice.

I never noticed that I stuttered when I could still speak, but I have heard old tapes of myself and it's sometimes quite pronounced. I had a massive receptive language delay (enough to affect the communicativeness of my expressive speech and writing for a long time) as well as a delay/loss of previously acquired speech in very early childhood.

Only when I'm concentrating on something and trying to talk at the same time. I can't do two things at once.

Same as me for both those things. And I either just go completely silent while I think of what to say next, or I stutter.

Although, I'd say about 70% I'm able to talk normally; I haven't figured out what causes me to stutter and whatnot.

I actually wanted to start a poll threat like this about stuttering. I started when I first started to talk, with about a 6 month delay in speech. The severity went up and down over the years. My stuttering usually involves not being able to say the first part of the word, particularly words that begin with "R". When I'm under anxiety and stress I stutter even more. Even answering the phone, sometimes I can't get the word "hello" out. It sucks, and wish I never did it.

I sometimes stammer when I'm very upset or anxious, but it only crops up very rarely.

Another thing that happens to me is I sometimes develop a sudden speech impediment. It's almost like a lisp. I'm not really sure what it is.
It only arrives when I'm very nervous and people are silent hanging on my words and listening to me intently. It's weird. It only happens once in a blue moon. What's with that?

Also I have globus histericus. My throat bleeds. The little veins pop and burst every now and then, due to all the tension, and sometimes it gets so swollen I can't breathe, and I have what sounds like an asthma attack. But I don't have asthma. I have a messed-up larynx.

I hate it. If there were one thing I could change about myself, it would be my permanent sore throat.

It's things like these that make me remember that at least I have full use of all my limbs and can run, clap, dance, jump around, and laugh for joy. I'm not complaining. Really. I'm happy to be alive.

My dad stutters and he is a rather successful professional speaker, so to me it isn't that big of a deal.

But I do stutter. Or have a hard time finding the right word. There are three times this happens. Usually it is connected with my brain going so fast and my mouth can catch up. Or sometimes, like someone else said, I'm talking and suddenly realize people are listening and kind of pause, lol. But when it is most annoying is when I am upset or stressed. Then I may as well shut up because my words aren't going to come out right anyways.

Can we say stutter is more of repeating the first sound of a word, while stammer is more a stuck or pause in the speech? If so, I do stammer more than stutter.

I'm not sure this is the same, I tend to loose articulation during my speech when I try hard to tell something to someone. I often can not foresee what will my speech be like. This eventually may result to stuttering. Loudness is also an issue. Fortunately (?) I have very little experience with talking in public, in that case I could not speak more than a couple of words, I think. Sometimes I do surprise others speaking out kind sentences of greeting.

Try convey some positive thinking of yours to your audience in those cases when you stuck or, if you speak about a specific subject, try gather as much relevant information as possible in advance . Easy to say, I know.


I hope your problem with your throat will get better. I had similar experiences when I was operated with tonsillectomy, 'resectio septi nasi' (refitting my bridgewarp), adenoids in my nose and more, all at the same department of the hospital.