Studdering: it freaked me out

Philosophy Forums Psychology and Mind
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when i was young i had a studder. a very pronounced one.

it was not the jibbering kind but i would get stuck on a word. my mouth would be ready to say it but it would be stuck.

anyway a few seconds ago…

i was replying to a post… when i write my mind speaks and my fingers follow much my mouth does…

i was speaking to myself like this : i am poised for an accomplishment… that is what my mind said when i started to type.

3 quarters of the way through i changed my mind to instead say i am trying to poise myself for an accomplishment.

when i looked awhat i was about to erase to my astonishment it said: “i am trying to poise”…

i was and still am shocked and a little flabberghasted…

i have heard about how studdering can mean things like your brain gets too far ahead of itself; works faster than your mouth.

but my fingers are faster than my mouth…

did my fingers write what they should have? even though directed otherwise?

it is very strange but it frigging shocked me that i had already wrote what i was about to… what i had just decided to!.

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You need to just get high.

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i was…

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You need to stop attempting to form coherant and complex sentences while high then.

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I think you erased and retyped as you thought, that’s pretty cool.

I stopped stuttering a long time ago, but now I just have long pauses, it’s nearly as bad.

I have a hard time thinking of an appropriate English word for things sometimes. It’s a shame that’s the only language I know.

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i also stopped studdering quite a long time ago, probably about 5 years to be exact. for awhile i would get the pause thing. its kind of frustrating trying to say a word but you cannot. a weird and frustrating feeling.

but now i have no problems speaking naturally. the trick to beating the pause thing is to relax :slight_smile:

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I have no recollection of being relaxed. I’ll keep trying though.

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i used to have all kinds of tricks to get around it… like if i was stuck on a “the” i would instead say “oh and the…”. switching around phrases and such to make it easier to say… it used to be very annoying at times… but luckily it’s gone now. perhaps my typing precognition episode is some sort of remnant of the condition…