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From: Gary J. Rentschler
Date: 13 Oct 2011
Time: 12:26:19 -0500
Remote Name: 165.190.57.240
Ari, there are a couple ways I look at your question. I start from the premise that most people have disfluencies in their speech from time to time. People who stutter (in general) have a constitutional predisposition to stutter and are therefore different that people who are disfluent, but don't stutter. Stuttering is different than the disfluencies others have. For people who stutter, trying not to stutter or trying to hide their stuttering can result in a greater likelihood of actually being disfluent... it seems that what we do trying not to be disfluent or stutter is exactly the wrong thing! My basic point is that people who stutter have regular disfluencies too. But people who stutter are different than people who don't. Hope that addresses your question.