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From: Peter Reitzes
Date: 12 Oct 2009
Time: 19:47:22 -0500
Remote Name: 76.15.239.95
Tom, really great comments and questions. You wrote, “if I take a pause I can often let the stress fade away and get back going again.” This has been my experience as well. You wrote, “I'm very curious to hear if you or anyone know of any research about whether other stutterers are like myself in terms of closing down under stress rather than being motivated and opened by it.” It is probably safe to assume that there is a wide range of variability among stutterers in how they respond to stress. My hunch is that some, perhaps many stutterers share your experience of closing down under stress while many others do not. However, I am not aware of any research that suggests that such a “closing down” during stressful situations is any greater in the stuttering population then in the population at large. Thanks for writing Tom.