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From: Daniel Orla - Via Isolabella 18/28 - 10046 Poirino (To) - Italy
Date: 10/12/01
Time: 11:55:27 AM
Remote Name: 151.20.95.49
Not a few times a good deal of my stuttering (and I'm not sure not only mine) is made up of things which have nothing to do with actual and "genuine" stuttering: "tics", rapid quasi-silent repetitions of nonsense words or phrases within myself or whispering of the same words, strange sounds, lip movements, frequent insertions - within my speech - of words or phrases which have hardly anything OR NOTHING AT ALL to do with the utterance. I know all too well that all this is not only USELESS but also and above all DANGEROUS and HARMFUL for my fluency, but I seem not to be able to avoid it; it seems like I MUST do that. When I - sometimes - succeed in courageously getting rid of all this bloody stuff which gets superimposed on "real stuttering", I notice that my fluency increases. But I only succeed sometimes...
Any ideas or suggestions?
Thks. Your Italian friend Daniel ORLA