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From: Dave Williams
Date: 30 Sep 2008
Time: 13:00:29 -0500
Remote Name: 71.228.93.115
I'm sure there was a connection in my own case, but I can't generalize from that. Wendell Johnson, in his 1946 book, "People in Quandaries: the Semantics of Personal Adjustment" and in his course in General Semantics, used to talk about the IFD disease: Idealization to Frustration to Demoralization as a common pattern of maladjustment. That is, if your ideals are too high ("I must be totally fluent"), too highly valued ("...or I will be unhappy/a failure") and too vague ("I can't define total fluency"), you will be frustrated, and if you are frustrated long enough you become demoralized and just give up. We used to discuss this pattern and its applicability to stuttering. Fascinating to see this problem being studied again, using quantitative measures.Keep it up!