The New Neuroscience of Stuttering

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41 points·sohkamyung··5 comments

So stuttering is an effect of (over) activity in the brain, more precisely the default-mode-network, which is among other things responsible for (self) awareness. That sure explains a lot, I used to stutter a lot and be preoccupied with it, now I hardly stutter and don't think about it at all.

Also funny they mention, en passant, in-breading in Pakistan. Wanna study rare genetic effect? Just go to the place with excess gene-expression.

I stutter, but not consistently. A friend of mine pointed once out that I only seem to stutter when I explain something, e.g, work or programming related. When I chit chat, when my mind wonders freely, I don't really seem to stutter much or at all.

I have a sort of similar problem with stuttering. I tell people I stutter, and no one really believes me because it I don’t stutter in most common situations. But I get stuck on certain combinations of sounds when my brain is sort of working faster than I can talk. I often have to stop trying to say the word and pick a different one. It’s quite maddening especially when being precise is important.

I have this too. This post also makes me realize that my thoughts and writing don't stutter, but sometimes my spoken words do. I have to actively slow down and think out the words I will say to make sure I can say them, rather than only think or read them. This ends up manifesting as slowness to respond but it's actually because I'm having to check my work before I start speaking and even then I can still fuck it up.

It would be great to listen /speak as fluidly as I think, without being an active process, but a passive process like everyone else.

I barely stutter when I speak my third language which is english. Probably because it lacks hard plosive consonants my first language is riddled with.

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