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From: Russ Hicks
Date: 10/22/03
Time: 9:53:13 AM
Remote Name: 12.237.88.139
Hey Alan,
I was wondering... I've never heard you stutter, not one single time. As I recall (and my memory may not be perfect, being the old codgers we both are... <smile> ), you are as fluent a person as I've ever heard. When you speak to groups about stuttering, as we both do, are you still fluent? If you are, do you think that affects your credibility as a stutterer? Or do you simply say "Trust me, I used to stutter very badly." Do you ever use voluntary stuttering to let them really HEAR you stutter? The way it used to be?
When I speak to groups about stuttering, I stutter quite a bit, but it's easy and open stuttering. When I want them to REALLY hear severe stuttering, I'll voluntary let myself "return to my former self" and show them quite severe stuttering, complete with secondaries. It's kinda-sorta "voluntary stuttering" but it sure doesn't take much for those incidents to become very REAL!
What are you experiences along this line?
Russ
PS, you don't even stutter on the monstrously long Welsh city name that you've promised to teach me how to say! <smile>