How many people out there stammer at times ?

Question

with me it jus happens .One moment am talking perfectly the next words fail to come out of my mouth.
N i have never heard/seen a female stammer ? r they any females who stammer

Answer 1

Yeah, females can have this problem, though not as many as males. Understanding and helping stammering is very tricky. It usually begins very early in life, so probably is connected to the development of the physical-neurological side of speaking (and boys' brains and girls' brains develop slightly differently and at slightly different rates). But because it is usually embarrassing and stressful to everybody, a psychological factor quickly begins to operate as well. This can then be the main reason for stammering becoming longterm. So everybody's stammering might have a similar cause to begin with, but what happens after that depends on circumstances. Stammering is not a disease, the severity of stammering varies greatly from individual to individual and there is no one particular type of person who stammers. There is usually no progression from slight to severe stammering over a lifetime. More often the opposite.

Also, as you have experienced, the occurrence of stammering is not consistent. Some stammerers can speak fluently out loud when nobody is around, or if they sing the words, or act them with a foreign accent, or shout them etc etc.

There is no such thing, however, as happy stammering. It is experienced as very unpleasant and exhausting. Once the psychological factors become the main cause of it occurring they feedback in a loop, so stammering keeps recurring. Stammering then becomes like fighting yourself. There is a lot of fear and anxiety and shame goes with it, which by themselves would make it difficult for anyone to speak perfectly, even without having a stammer beforehand! For young people, they can see themselves as freaks and become desperate.

There are no medications which cure stammer, or even reduce it. The best treatments are behavioural-psychological. One example is what is called Smooth Speech. This trains the sufferer to substitute a way of breathing and forming words while they are speaking, for the problem way, which has become like a bad habit. In other words, to replace a bad speaking habit with a good one.

Lifestyle changes can also help. For example, learning to reduce stress and anxiety through yoga, which has the important advantage of working on your psychological state through the body. Properly-done martial arts is similar. Stammering can also reduce with age, or with important life experiences such as having a great and loving sexual relationship, getting married, etc etc.

People communicate in other ways than by speaking. So it can be a very satisfying and balancing experience to communicate through handicrafts or painting, music etc etc.

Famous stammerers include Lewis Carrol, Charles Darwin, Marylin Monroe, Napoleon, Isaac Newton, Theodore Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.

http://www.stammering.org/bsrp.html

B-b-b-best w-w-w-wishes (LOL)

Answer 2

All of us do some just pretend not to better than others and don't let it affect them. I am a female and I stammer at times but admittedly not alot-but my little girl who is 7 stammers all the time maybe she will grow out of it LOL

Answer 3

I never stammered until the last few years, sometimes it's so bad that I have trouble saying what I want. I have noticed that it's worse when I'm really stressed or if my daughter is doing it also. My therapist says that is caused by stress. I hope that I can find a way of controlling it because I'm in my fifties and it frustrates the heck out of me If it bothers you I hope that you can find some way of dealing with it.

Answer 4

If I'm really wound up when I'm talking I'll get stuck on a word and keep repeating it until I just stop talking and start over. I don't know if that really counts as stammering, but that's as close as I get.

Answer 5

Stammering and stuttering are the same thing. Check the web site for The Stuttering Foundation and you will see that girls also have this happen though not as often as boys. On their web site www.stutteringhelp.org, go to this page http://www.stutteringhelp.org/Default.aspx?tabid=128 and you will see a list of people who stuttered and they include Carly Simon, Marilyn Monroe, Margaret Drabble, and Julia Roberts.

Answer 6

I have witnessed women stammering and I stammer often but people don't notice it, or don't see it, or ignore it. I don't know. I guess we all just have some trouble coordinating our tongue and our mind sometimes - like when we're thinking too fast - too fast for the tongue to roll and do whatever it does to enable us to speak.

Answer 7

See http://www.casafuturatech.com/ (.com/Books/NoMiracleCures) (/NoMiracleCures/index.shtml) and www.stuttering.org (costs $). Some people advise deliberately slowing your speech; others recommend putting some marbles in your mouth, yet others say singing helps. Phone: (USA) 1800 221 2483 and 1800 992 9392. Practise daily, one of the relaxation methods at http://www.ezy-build.net.nz/~shaneris on page 2, like mindfulness breathing, and try the EFT, since there is a version for use in public.

Answer 8

i stammer sometimes. it isn't even when i'm nervous. to counteract this, i stop, gather my thoughts intensely, then start the next sentence with a hard consonant. there is hardly a break/pause at all with this method.

im a male, by the way.

Answer 9

I'm not a stammer.
I'm not diagnosed.
I never will be.

i rarely have it.

But i do stammer occasionally.. noone has ever noticed..but it's weird... i don't know.. some words just do not come out!

Maybe you should see a speech therapist if it is really bothering you....

Answer 10

Yeah maybe but not really fully stammer. I don't know how to describe it.