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From: Paul Goldstein
Date: 22 Oct 2011
Time: 09:42:42 -0500
Remote Name: 88.88.238.25
I would like to add something here (though I'm not on the panel). I find that when I'm feeling sick (which, thankfully, occurs very seldom) my fluency greatly improves. The same thing happens when I'm very tired. I realize that for many people who stutter, the opposite is true. It's interesting to speculate on the reasons why experience improved fluency in such circumstances. It could be that if I feel weak, tired, or ill, I have limited energy to struggle with speech, and limited energy to focus tension on the speech mechanism. It also could be that in these circumstances I just don't think much about my speech, and therefore don't experience the speech fears that lead to blocking.