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

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Thank you. No, it is unlikely to ever get better. It is caused by anxiety apparently. The throat goes into permanent involuntary spasm. Nothing they can do. I've had it since my teens. Nothing to do with surgery; just my body shooting itself in the foot.

Sorry to hear about what you went through.

I've read this article from David Mitchell:
http://www.stammering.org/mitchell.html

It's worth to read the last 7 paragraphs only, if in hurry.

How to perceive stutter and live with it. He implies there is no cure for it, but there are strategies both in practice and in mind to cope with it.

"Quite probably, if I could have produced unbroken, effortless sentences like my secretly-envied class-mates, I would never have felt the need to write them down, nor become a writer."

What do you mean by delay/loss of previously acquired speech in very early childhood? Does it mean that you learned to speak early, but later your ability faded as you grew older? Did you have a lack of interest in communication with others only verbally or by other means (except writing), too?

I also have old tapes, they clearly show I did not stutter back then. I was more interested in the microphone, insisting "what's in it?" again and again.

I've also come to know that I was not always aware of stutter or other speech issues of mine. When I speak to a close friend, I sometimes forget about it.

That's what I was originally thinking the difference was, but then I wasn't sure if that wasn't just a stereotype from TV and movies.

(And I seem to overact this thread, sorry )

I stuttered for a while when I was in my very early 20s.

I have never had a stutter...
I therefore picked the last option on the poll, which would seem sensible.

Oh, I thought you would envy us not having this lovely trait!

I can't vote. I didn't speak much when I was a kid so I didn't know I had speech problems until I was 17. I got really concerned when I was 20 and eventually found out I was autistic. The speech problems just made me look for an answer and the other problems kept popping up.

I had a short verbal delay. I don't remember speaking before I was 4 or 5. I might have said some things but I spoke very little until my teenage years and since then I've slowly started to speak more.

I stuttered as a kid quite often. My mom used to tell me it was because my brain worked faster than my mouth. I learned how to control it, for the most part, but it still pops up every once in awhile, particularly when I'm experiencing a strong emotion. The one that I hate is when I stumble over words, so nothing but gibberish comes out. xD When that happens, I have to pause, take a deep breath, and start over again.

I also have been told by my mom that I think faster than my mouth. It's true and false at the same time, I think. True, bc my thinking is non-verbal, so it's likely that thoughts emerge faster than I can put them into words and sentences. False, bc if I could put them into words and sentences faster by a more efficient mental process, it would mean that actually a part of my mind 'thinks' a bit slower currently than it should.

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I stammer a little, but it is mostly bad slurring. I never noticed this until I started recording myself on video for YouTube videos. It sounds like I am having a stroke or drunk. I cannot believe how bad it is! I think much faster and coherently than my mouth can keep up with.

I mean I said a few words in extremely early childhood, then I lost the ability to speak for long enough that I had a delay. I got the ability to speak back, although it was mostly not communicative, and then other stuff happened (too complex to explain, involves another condition as well) and I can't communicatively speak in adulthood. But the delay I was talking about was the one after I stopped talking in early childhood.

That makes sense, though I'm not entirely sure what kind of thinker I am. I've always assumed I was fairly verbal. I don't think I am "picture" oriented, as most of the time I don't see images in my head when I read or hear something. I rarely visualize metaphors. That said, I often have to draw things out in order to understand them... and verbal directions are incredibly difficult for me to understand.

Non-verbal thinking not necessary has to be like pictures. They are more schemes in mind that are built around concepts or more abstract substances like work-flow models with all their weird connections. However, it is more of a continuum, everybody thinks verbal sometimes and in pictures other times. I can take jokes quite literally when I imagine them in picture and laugh a bit odd.