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Re: What is "pure stuttering" that we try to hide?

From: Vivian Sisskin
Date: 02 Oct 2011
Time: 19:05:20 -0500
Remote Name: 108.48.99.120

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Ari, When I refer to “pure” stuttering, I am not necessarily talking about a specific pattern of disfluency (repetitions, prolongations) nor am I talking about a period of stuttering when you were young. I am imagining what your disfluency might look like without attempts to escape or hide.. without the learned or reactive behaviors that have come to define the stuttering pattern now. I would define it as stuttering without maladaptive attempts to be fluent. One client told me that she had so many habitual maladaptive behaviors, both things she did and things she thought, that she needed to “find her stutter”. I liked that way of looking at it because it conveys the notion that there is something (or perhaps not much of anything) when you peel away all the layers of “tricks” used to hide stuttering at one time or another.


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