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From: Joseph Dewey
Date: 04 Oct 2005
Time: 14:53:06 -0500
Remote Name: 66.10.108.34
Hi Sheila. You know when you have something in your head that you were going to say, and it seems like it's perfect, but when you say it then it doesn't convey the meaning that you had in your head? I think everyone has felt that way from time to time. For a clutterer, it feels that way all of the time. One of the big differences between stuttering and cluttering is that stuttering is very physical, where cluttering is very effortless. It's almost kind of like a clutterer doesn't think about his or her mouth or speech at all as they are speaking. I think that this is very similar to normal speech in this lack of awareness, but it is very different from stuttering. One way of describing it is that there are two centers of your brain--a thought center and a speech center. With normal, fluent speech, there are a bunch of intertwined and entangled connectors that make up fluent speech. With cluttered speech, it is a kind of "over the wall" approach, where your brain rages, and there is only one connector between the thought center and the speech center, and the thought center just throws thought to the speech center, which then just spits it out. So, to directly answer your question…I don’t ever directly think about the sensations in my mouth, and the sensations in my head seem like very non-sequential thought that has no order, kind of thinking in a very abstract way.