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From: Joseph Dewey
Date: 05 May 2010
Time: 18:47:26 -0500
Remote Name: 63.82.19.2
Hi Janine, this is a good question. I think it might be true for cluttering, but I think that the underlying mechanics of what I went through would be different than for someone with stuttering. One of the best things I've done for my cluttering is do a kind of re-translation from what goes on inside of my head, into regular speech. It's kind of like that when I think, I don't think at a verbal level. Everyone does this a little bit, but I think I do this to an extreme. Nobody's thoughts are exactly the same as their speech, but I think that usually people's thoughts kind of usually mimic how they would talk about something. That wasn't natural for me, I had to train myself how to translate my thoughts into speech. I was talking to an inventor once, and I noticed that as he was talking about a really obscure invention of his, that his speech started breaking down into cluttering-like patterns. My point of this is that the more I socialize with people, the more I'm able to easily bridge that gap between my non-word thoughts, and worded speech. When my parents got divorced, I think I turned into a social recluse for a while, which helped my non-word thinking to develop, and didn't help me at all with translating my thoughts into speech. So, I think that the traumatic event contributed to my cluttering, but not in an unexplainable shock kind of way that it can bring the onset of stuttering.