[Lagawrd]

I have a studder. I have had one since I was a kid. Who has this? It does not come from shyness, nor embarassment, or any of that sort. I am rather relaxed, and outgoing. The best I can explain is, my mind is working faster than my physical mouth's movement, and the my mouth tries to speak about something that mind has already went through. Do you have any experience in this, or know anything about this?

It is not so bad anymore, I have some control over it, but it still sometimes slips. Picture yourself having a good train of thought, speaking fluently and nicely, and all of the sudden your mouth just cannot pronounce the beginning letter of a word. Such words that begin with the letter, 'A' 'U' 'S' 'G' are the most I studder with.

[bubbles]

I stutter a lot, too, mostly when I am stressed. It usually happens when what I am saying is different from what I am saying. I am often undecided on what to say and will think of several things to say at once, but I can only say one thing at a time. I thought I might have Asperger's Syndrome or something, but I guess not. I would like to know what causes stuttering too.

[Grizzly]

I still stutter at times when I'm flustered or stressed, but the problem seems to have dissapeared.

I think its just related to shyness, or the mind moving faster than the tongue and teeth can keep up with.

[Homini Lupus]

I do often. Sometimes because I can't actually find the right, exact word for what I'm thinking.
Also, most of the people doesn't understand what I say since they're not used to proper language.
I guess my problem is that my thinking skills are faster than my grammar skills.

[vaguely dissatisfied]

Do you think it may have something to do with the connection within the brain between the area where the thought of what to say is formed and the speech processing centre?

[gogurtdynasty]

er i stutter and it drives me crazy....

I'll be mid sentence and it turns into word salad I have to stop for a second and just start over calmly

its usually when i get really excited about something whether it be positive or negative

It's good to know that I'm not the only stuttering adult!

[Lagawrd]

Yes, it is extremely annoying. It is not about shyness like I said, or any emotional stress. The first letter just does not come out. I can formulate the word, I can imagine and spell out the word visually, I can say the word in my head, but it would not come out. I need to take a few breaths before I can try to say it again. I have no problem with public speaking, I usually present my speech rather smooth at times, but at times it just freezes. From the outside according to the audience, it would look like I forgot what I was saying, but internally I am fighting.

[gogurtdynasty]

I am the same way with public speaking I can do it just fine and nobody notices when i slip up but the whole time i'm absolutely freaking out

[vaguely dissatisfied]

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Yes, it is extremely annoying. It is not about shyness like I said, or any emotional stress. The first letter just does not come out. I can formulate the word, I can imagine and spell out the word visually, I can say the word in my head, but it would not come out. I need to take a few breaths before I can try to say it again. I have no problem with public speaking, I usually present my speech rather smooth at times, but at times it just freezes. From the outside according to the audience, it would look like I forgot what I was saying, but internally I am fighting.

This sounds so much like a neural dissconnect in the brain.

[sriv]

My voice cracks a lot, and I stutter when I get stressed. I have the same problem with my train of thoughts being faster than speech, but I am getting more used to it.

[Lagawrd]

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	This sounds so much like a neural dissconnect in the brain.

Hmm, neural dissconnect? What kind of dissconnect? between "the thought of what to say is formed and the speech processing centre"?

Maybe, but if that was the case would it not stay constant? Because my problem has been going and coming randomly. I also have gotten alot better. I have yet to notice any patterns in my life style that would affect my speech. Sometimes, I would be speaking like a bird, other times i would be fighting to speak. Sriv is correct in one thing, you do get used to it, and start to control it. I am starting to do so however.
I just never got to know how stuttering happens. I am not not counting on getting my answer from here, but I do know I would get some insight.

[Xenolar]

On whole, I do not stutter.
However, I have found myself to stammer when under a great deal of anxiety (most notably if I have to speak publicly) or if I am overly excited about something.

[vaguely dissatisfied]

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Hmm, neural dissconnect? What kind of dissconnect? between "the thought of what to say is formed and the speech processing centre"? Maybe, but if that was the case would it not stay constant? Because my problem has been going and coming randomly. I also have gotten alot better. I have yet to notice any patterns in my life style that would affect my speech. Sometimes, I would be speaking like a bird, other times i would be fighting to speak. Sriv is correct in one thing, you do get used to it, and start to control it. I am starting to do so however. I just never got to know how stuttering happens. I am not not counting on getting my answer from here, but I do know I would get some insight.

I don't know a thing about stuttering, but I do know that you can form new neural pathways in the brain......that's how we learn and remember. So it would make sense that you could possibly learn to get around the problem by literally forming new synapses over time. This would allow a connect between the areas of the brain that were not connecting before.

It's like when you're trying to think of someone's name and you feel like 'it's right on the tip of your tongue', but you can't think of it no matter how hard you try. Then you go off and think about something else and the name comes to you without any effort. This happens because whatever synapses that are firing when you are trying so hard to remember that name are the wrong pathways to the information you are looking for. When you stop firing these 'wrong' synapses, then the 'right' ones are allowed to come into play. This doesn't happen every time you try to remember a name.

[SmileyMan]

I stutter some, and I find it very annoying. I don't know why, but it seems like my brain is thinking faster than my tongue is moving.

E.g.: Tongue is moving to produce the sounds of #1, while my brain is thinking of #3. This somehow interferes with my tongue, which stops pronouncing #1 and starts with #3 from where it left #1; resulting in a delicious word-salad. Sometimes I mix up whole words, and not just the sounds of the letters. It only happens when I'm thinking about something very difficult.

[ShaiGar]

I stutter as well, I am also Dyslexic

[Motor Jax]

i have a tendency to stutter sometimes

and my brother (i only have one sibling) used to stutter like crazy when we were growing up, and i think he still has a tendency to stutter sometimes even now

he's also diagnosed with ADHD, and from observation, an ISTJ

[Cynical]

Lagawrd, I thought I was the only one with that problem!

I find it so frustrating. I don't even know when it started happening because honestly I don't remember having this problem back then. I've always just ignored the fact that my brain was thinking faster. I thought it'd probably go away within a month or so - but It never really went away.

I find it a bit comforting to know that I'm not the ONLY one who this happens to.

[demaugustus]

When I was a child in elementary school I was put into a speech therapy class because of my stuttering, which was really bad. My speech therapist taught me to slow down and gather my thoughts before speaking and I eventually became a clear speaker. Even today, when I'm about to graduate college, I still find myself about to stutter or stuttering when I get excited about something I want to say.

I find myself in the exact same situation as Lagawrd when doing speeches...interesting.

[Erika Redmark]

I stutter sometimes, but not very often…a bigger problem for me is a tendency not to speak clearly enough when reading aloud, from trying to go too fast and read at the same speed I read in my head.

I also sometimes start a sentence over if I think of a better way to express my thought that has a different syntactic structure than what I've just started saying.

[ssrprotege]

I stutter a lot when I am really tired, stressed. I stutter when I get afraid that things that I am talking about are going out of my control, too. Sometimes I think fast and that thoughts are "somewhere" in the brain. Like Lagawrd, that happens to me too.

[quest ion]

I used to stutter alot! It has improved a lot now. But sometimes, for some reason I'm not too sure if it's stress or excitement (definitely not shyness), I can't speak what I had intended to. It just got stuck or something. It's a horrible feeling like I'm psycho or something. Haha. Then with some difficulty, I try to construct the sentence in another way like start with a different word or something so as to get my point out.

Hah.

[Ytterbium]

I must think through first what I want to say and then how to say it. Usually I don't so words become mispronunced, stumbled or in wrong order.

[Rocky]

I never used to stutter, until I got to middle school and suddenly I started to do it. I stutter whenever I'm stressed, giving presentations in front of class, or if my mind is moving faster than my mouth. I should look into it, I don't think stuttering should just pop up out of nowhere like that.

[DrEast]

I stutter, I stumble, I use words that SOUND like the word I had in mind but are in fact are completely wrong, I mispronounce words even when I know how they're supposed to be pronounced (my worst case: "rapport") , I'll even use words that SOUND like words that are actually similar in definition to words I mean to use but are in fact of the wrong connotation, or SOUND like a mispronunciation of the word I had in mind... not that it matters, because at that point I've completely lost my audience.

Half the time after I make a post here I'll jump to dictionary.com to make sure the word I used meant what I thought it did. But the problem doesn't seem to crop up in my writing, just when I talk.

INTJ's, like most N's, learn words contextually, too, so there may be a time where I'll use a word that I mis-defined from context and lurked in my subconscious until the time came to embarrass myself. That's not happened as much recently as it did when I was a teenager, though.

[azelismia]

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I stutter, I stumble, I use words that SOUND like the word I had in mind but are in fact are completely wrong, I mispronounce words even when I know how they're supposed to be pronounced (my worst case: "rapport") , I'll even use words that SOUND like words that are actually similar in definition to words I mean to use but are in fact of the wrong connotation, or SOUND like a mispronunciation of the word I had in mind... not that it matters, because at that point I've completely lost my audience. Half the time after I make a post here I'll jump to dictionary.com to make sure the word I used meant what I thought it did. But the problem doesn't seem to crop up in my writing, just when I talk. INTJ's, like most N's, learn words contextually, too, so there may be a time where I'll use a word that I mis-defined from context and lurked in my subconscious until the time came to embarrass myself. That's not happened as much recently as it did when I was a teenager, though.

yeah this sounds like me, although I don't actually stutter, I stop short of that I stammer. My worst words are Canada and Sequim. Canada not so much anymore but up until my twenties it often came out Caan ahh da, even though I knew better. sequim is a local place name. I pronounce it see qwee um. it's actually skwim. You didn't include combining words though, I also do that. I'll have a paragraph that in my head that needs to be delivered. I end up mushing words together that I didn't mean to. it comes out sounding like word salad. I have to remind myself to breath deep and slow down.