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From: Steve Hood
Date: 10/8/01
Time: 9:33:10 AM
Remote Name: 199.33.133.50
Hello, Neiders-
Regarding your question-- I am not sure that there is an answer to your question about the threshold at which "ordinary people" conceive stuttering as stuttering. Certainly there are "nonstutterers" who are extremely disfluent, and yet still do not consider themselves to have a stuttering problem. And there are persons who stutter who are overly self-critical of and and all disfluencies they have. I suspect that there are lots of individual differences among persons, and some persons may be more sensitive, more self-critical, more perfectionistic, etc, in how they respond to their own nonfluencies. Personally, I usually reacted to Buckley by thinking he was being rather pompous, and used his disfluency in an arrogant and almost condescending way -- but this is just a personal reaction.
I think there are lots of people who would agree that components such as self-talk, humor, emperical evidence,logic and pragmatism are useful constructs.... I am not convinced that these are solely within the domain of REBT.