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From: Walt Manning
Date: 09 Oct 2012
Time: 09:15:10 -0500
Remote Name: 141.225.97.52
Anxiety, particulary social anxiety and fear of negative evaluation is a natural result of the experience of stuttering. It would be abnormal NOT to experience anxiety in social situations if you are a person who stutters. Of course some PWS also have anxiety disorders and other Axis I or II psychological problems but at a rate that is not different than the community population (in spite of some efforts to argue otherwise). The student in my classes who are asked to play the role of a PWS experience much the same anxiety. As Guitar (2006, p. 62) states “…the experience of stuttering generates emotions, such as frustration, fear and anger in everyone who stutters.” Anxiety as a result of another condition is not considered to be a psychological disorder. In fact, as noted in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR) stuttering is an example of just such a condition (Anxiety Disorder not otherwise specified p. 484.)