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From: Jim Clarkson
Date: 10/18/01
Time: 12:23:51 AM
Remote Name: 210.49.20.34
Brian
To answer your first question you should know more about the three of us. We are in good health, well above average height, with no other hang-ups apart from stuttering. Our interests show similar patterns, which appear very right hemisphere orientated. My favourite is early Victorian architecture. Matthew also has visual interests. Haidee has what has been often said a photographic memory, and she always wins at card games for instance.
Haidee and I have a very determined nature. We have very fast easy sound repetitions on Monday, then stressed blocks by Friday. Matthew has an easygoing placid nature, and always has a continuos flow of blocks on sounds, and very few repetitions if any. (stutters).
If Matthew were to confront a word choice decision that was more left orientated, a verbal sound image, and could not easily relate this to a visual sound image. He may tend by mannerism to take the easy way out, and simply blot it out. (note I am not talking about a block here either). This may not be normal behaviour for him but he could be subconsciously strongly influenced in the decision if one or more of those sounds were painful for him to initiate or hold as in a block. An example for Matthew is the missing numerical fourteen. I can only imagine as I feel most people would, to think of fourteen somewhat verbally imaged at high speed. And only at low speed could I relate it as ten plus four items, more visual. How were you originally taught fourteen as against four?
The recognition of their indecisions for stutters is not an unknown phenonemen, although I don’t know if it is actually documented. An example of ideal conditions would be taking a drive in the country. Somewhat relaxed, very alert, and chatting of course. For me personally I would need also to be on a good week, very few stutters and zero blocks. My first recognition under therapy conditions was very focused and under extreme pressure, but importantly recognised by me alone . An example of my indecisions can be described as follows. An impromptu talk initiated by a queue card showing a framed picture of a famous painting. I utter this is a p/picture of Monaliza. A sharp swift instantaneous recognition of confusion between picture and painting occurs. The initial repeated /p/ is so fast. It could be related to any one of many combinations of picture or painting. Also do not discount the fact that /p/ could be an unvoiced double airflow kick-starter for the higher frequency voiced /i/ whereas this strategy for the lower frequency /a/ just no longer works, or is more painful. Although only theoretical such an occurrence could play a part in the decision. Was my final answer correct, I don’t know because there are two correct answers?
In any word decision for a stutterer whether it be right or wrong it can still be stuttered.
The most basic and bizarre example I have of my indecisions is. The hot sun is beating down on my head(not to much hair these days) temp 32deg c. My monitoring condition is ideal. I utter/ isn’t it cold today the same sharp swift instantaneous recognition occurs. Now you yourself put on a heavy coat and reverse that situation to winter. Would I have made the same mistake and said hot. I feel now no because I feel more physical pain with the whole sound of hot verses cold. Did I stutter or block in this instance no.
The recognition of my indecisions are as rare as my days of ideal conditions. I might add that I appreciate that the interests of different stutterer’s show no bounds. And am aware that there is such a thing as a normal disfluency. Does this cover your questions?