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From: Kevin Eldridge
Date: 11 Oct 2010
Time: 23:39:50 -0500
Remote Name: 71.201.115.194
Emma, I think you hit on a very important point. Why is it that every time a PWS stutters they accept it as normal and real, but when they are fluent they view it as an exception. The reality is that exceptions are not really unique events, they happen all the time. It seems that PWS are more willing to take ownership of the stuttering they do, and not the fluent episodes of speech. I was guilt of this for years myself. But the reality was that the "exceptions" (i.e. when I produced fluent speech) were as real as the stuttering. Once one realizes this, they can "own" the exceptions as well. It seems that keeping a diary might help the PWS realized that what they thought were random exceptions, were not so exceptional after all.