it_takes_a_lot_of_skill_to_stutter Mahayana ...everybody stutters in a special personal way some children say a word or part of a word several times; others block completely. some children make weird faces; others never do. Some children hate their stuttering so much they would prefer not to talk at all. others don't seem to mind and just go on talking no matter what. one more time dont stop the talking.. were gonna celebrate .. oh yeah.. one more time [dj's of the written word- in real time- real time]just go on talking no matter what .. one more time dont stop the talking.. were gonna celebrate .. oh yeah.. one more time 021219 ... screwing for virginity hell, i didnt even realised i stuttered till like 7th grade. 021219 ... tennis star of the 70s it takes a skull_full_of_peanut_butter 021219 ... jess Mister, if you dont do this for me, theres a good chance that i might develop a stutter. P-P-P-Please dont do this to me. 030402 ... niska well no one's ever seen what i mean, from the age of na-na-na-na-na-na-thirteen... 030402 ... notme i heard somewhere it's a sign of high iq 040515 ... oldephebe i stuttered horribly till I was 14 and after eyars of speech therapy...now you can't shut me up.. although the stuttering does come back during periods of great strees..such as death in the family and what not..but it don't stay long.. ... 040515 ... kookaburra i used to stutter when i was scared or excited... but it hasnt come back... my sourthern accent comes back when im not looking out for it though... 040515 ... notme "...The average stutterer's IQ is 14 points higher than the national average..." http://psychcentral.com/library/stuttering.htm 040515 ... Mahayana i always stutter when im really nervous/angry and/or super excited sometimes i feel like such an idiot when im trying to express myself to you and i get caught up on the [m's] and [t's] 040515 ... andru235 when i was a kid, i had this friend who stuttered a lot. i really looked up to him, and i started emulating him, the way kids do. i thought pretty much everything he did was cool. later i was reprimanded for "mocking" him. but i wasn't mocking him. by then, i knew what mocking was, and i was assuredly not doing so. i mean, i was practically 'in' love with the guy. no one would even listen to my explanations. they had decided that i was mocking him, end of story. he knew otherwise, i think, but it became like maupassant's "the_piece_of_string": for several years, my emulations were assumed to be mockeries. but i was never a mocker-ist. i was, on the whole, a very empathetic child. (i, for my part, could never say my "r"s, and had trouble with several other letters. sometimes when i get drunk my "r"s revert to "ah-os" and i can't do a thing about it.) i learned two things from all this: 1) people cannot see things that they do not believe to be a possibility, and it is difficult for them to forsee benevolent motives where they themselves have malice; and 2) it_takes_a_lot_of_skill_to_stutter 051115 ... andru235 * i was reprimanded specifically for emulating his stuttering, and repeatedly ** it was never, "andru235, i know you really look up to ..." and rather was "don't make fun of him!" well, i'm NOT, i would respond, to no avail. 051115 ... oren I_have a_good_friend who happens to_be in his seventies and is a severe stutterer. He has never been able to overcome the impediment, yet he has lived a full and happy life. When I first met him, I_had trouble listening to him, but after several years, I grew accustomed to his way of speaking. He's a very intelligent man, with a great sense_of_humor. I_love him dearly. 051116 what's it to you? who go blather from