Tiredness easing the stutter

[gracesloth23]

Does anyone find it easier to speak fluently when really tired/sleepy? I do. I guess cause I’m tired and going a bit slower than usual so it’s easier not to stutter when speaking ultra-slowly for me, and also when I’m tired I’m much more relaxed cause I simply don’t have the energy NOT to be.

Anyway, the second part of this question is, does anybody almost act or pretend to be tired/sleepy or lethargic in some way, because it makes it a bit easier to speak slower, and thus stutter less? But if you were to abruptly speak slower but NOT act tired, people might notice the difference and it’d be embarrassing? Maybe I’m just incredibly odd. LOL.

This is sort of related to my other post of today.

[bwelling]

Does anyone find it easier to speak fluently when really tired/sleepy? I do. I guess cause I’m tired and going a bit slower than usual so it’s easier not to stutter when speaking ultra-slowly for me, and also when I’m tired I’m much more relaxed cause I simply don’t have the energy NOT to be.

Anyway, the second part of this question is, does anybody almost act or pretend to be tired/sleepy or lethargic in some way, because it makes it a bit easier to speak slower, and thus stutter less? But if you were to abruptly speak slower but NOT act tired, people might notice the difference and it’d be embarrassing? Maybe I’m just incredibly odd. LOL.

This is sort of related to my other post of today.

grace, chakra 5 in yoga suggest that there are excessive or insufficient energies that build up or do not flow in the throat area. It is a suggestion in Yoga that specific postures and poses will exercise this area and allow the engeries to flow normally to reduce stress in speaking.

[spanglishfly]

Only when I am extremely tired I do find that my vocal chords are more relaxed, but my stuttering doesn't improve all that much. I've tried the lethargic approach but for me, just like you say gracesloth, people tend to notice right away that I'm being weird or something and so it turns into embarassment very quickly! This might sound a bit weird, sometimes I feel like I don't have enough muscle movement around my....lips or mouth, and I somewhat feel that has somehting to do when I'm trying to form a word. I have noticed sometimes that I don't move my mouth as much as I should cause I'm too busy trying to get the words out that I forget the fundamentals of speech. I wonder if anybody else feels that way? I don't know, maybe I'm just incredibly odd like gracesloth23!!!

[Standingtall]

I have notice i don't stutter as much when i am really tired and sleepy. The only problem with that, is i can't hold an conversation in that state, it would be embarrassing to fall asleep on this person and rude. I can't speak in a slow monotone voice for very long, it drives me up the wall. Maybe i need some Yoda training, so where is that yoda master. LOL!!!!!!

[gracesloth23]

Hmm, muscle movement…I sort of get what you mean I think. Or maybe not. LOL. For me anyway, when I speak, even if I am not stuttering and feel quite fluent and like there’s no danger of a stutter appearing any time soon, I do tend to find that my speech is never 100% clear…the diction of each word, you know? I don’t have any specific reason for this, like I don’t have a lisp or any other speech issue, but I don’t know…it’s like my mouth doesn’t form each word perfectly…I know a lot of people have this and it’s not a problem, but combined with the stutter, it is for me…

I noticed on a TV show the other night, it was like a current affairs discussion type show with various people in the audience giving their opinions of an issue (in this case, anorexia, but that’s not related to this really), I noticed one girl (24 years old but seemed about 18 or so, her voice was really young), she didn’t have a stutter as such, or not an obvious one anyway, but she didn’t speak clearly. She spoke quite fast (maybe she was nervous), and her breathing was sort of hurried and all over the place, and her mouth seemed to not…I don’t know, it’s hard to describe, but it was as if I knew she’d have problems speaking 100% clearly just from watching her mouth move. There was nothing WRONG with her mouth, it looked fine, but…it just didn’t seem to LOOK like it was speaking clearly somehow…

Yes, I am indeed incredibly odd, but I do think that my stutter is about an 80% contribution as to WHY I am this odd. Every part of my life since I was 6-8 has been totally affected by the stutter. I have never spoken 100% naturally/automatically, purely thinking about the content of what I’m saying as opposed to the WAY I’m saying it. It has completely obliterated my natural personality and thought processes when it comes to speaking. I am fine with just thinking, and when I’m alone, and online. I still have my personality then, but with people it’s just distorted, toned down, dulled, non-existent. *sigh*

[timitao]

firstly i dont think you are particularly odd, you come across as quite smart and funny actually.

secondly a lot of people have 2 personalities, especially successfull people.

Look at most managers they come across all confident and assertive when they use a work image, then when they go home they are themselves.

Everyone tends to say "be yourself" but what is yourself, what are you minus a stammer?

personality is made up of life experiences and is a learned behaviour. So why can't you be that person you are alone all the time?

I found the biggest thing in my life i had to deal with was not actually my stammer!

It was how i saw myself, and how i THOUGHT others see me.

People don't always like to see people change as i have found out. And sometimes people you might think are supportive actually keep you from growing as a person.

We as humans like to pidgeon hole, it's what we do. From naming groups of people who dress a certain way to people with learning disorders.

But just beacuase we get pidgeon holed as sa nervous and not confident, doesn't mean we have to live up to it.

[timitao]

oh and with regards to my stammer, comlpletely the opposite it comes out more when i'm tired, it's a funny old world.

[thomasb29]

My stutter gets a whole lot worse when I'm tired. I work a lot of 3am to 3pm shifts. If I do a couple in a row it gets really bad.

[RadiatorRT]

definitely worst when im tired and just want to go to sleep, cant even put the required effort into speaking fluently.

[gracesloth23]

Firstly i dont think you are particularly odd, you come across as quite smart and funny actually.

Thank ye kindly. :D

Personality is made up of life experiences and is a learned behaviour. So why can't you be that person you are alone all the time?

I don't honestly know...because my NATURAL impulses are constantly restricted and stifled by the stutter...or how I don't want to reveal the stutter too much I guess...

Like, for example, I'm sometimes kinda funny in real life, and sometimes I'll make a Jerry Seinfeldian observation, and you gotta say it like Jerry (well, I think you do anyway), and when I am fluent it sounds great and is funny, the way it's supposed to come out, and the way I think it and feel it in my head...but other times, if I feel it won't come out fluently, then I just don't bother...so I'm not revealing my natural self to others. It's kept inside. :(

[happy7117]

Thank ye kindly. :D



I don't honestly know...because my NATURAL impulses are constantly restricted and stifled by the stutter...or how I don't want to reveal the stutter too much I guess...

Like, for example, I'm sometimes kinda funny in real life, and sometimes I'll make a Jerry Seinfeldian observation, and you gotta say it like Jerry (well, I think you do anyway), and when I am fluent it sounds great and is funny, the way it's supposed to come out, and the way I think it and feel it in my head...but other times, if I feel it won't come out fluently, then I just don't bother...so I'm not revealing my natural self to others. It's kept inside. :(

It's as though stuttering dictates what to say and what not to say. Stuttering also seems to make us afraid to say something, so we don't say it because we don't want to get stuck saying it. Stuttering is just not fair!

[gracesloth23]

Well yes, but many things aren't fair, are they happy?

Yeah, you hit the nail on my head there, heheh...I find my stutter really does dictate what I DON'T say...it's only really in the past few years that I've actually stopped speaking all together at times to avoid the stutter...cause I just can't feel a way around it (by using different words, etc)...so I just don't say what I was gonna say at all.