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happy7117
04-19-2008, 07:56 AM
That's right. I kid you not, today I had a very fluent chatty day!

I felt on cloud 9 or 18 and it was because I felt so darn fluent.

I don't believe it was a fluke either!

Then again it was a fluke that is very rare which I wish would occur every day.

Here's the thing:

Ever listen to the sound of an answering machine, or the alarm from an alarm clock??

Do you ever get a very confident feeling when something or a certain sound hits your ear, and it seems to match the sound of your voice when you talk??

I felt like when I could concentrate on the sound of the alarm clock buzzer in my left ear as I spoke, the stuttering went away....it was something to do with concentrating on that loud sound parralel to what I was saying.

Was the sound of that alarm clock amplifying my vocal tone so I could hear it better???

That confident feeling from hearing that sound from that alarm clock which boosted my flueny got me through most of the day with very little stutter.

It made me WANT to talk. It felt like a in my speech!

Also, I went to miniature golf today also.

Without saying anything at all, I concentrated on hearing others voices around me.

I tried to silently talk along with the voices that I was hearing from people talking around me, and again I did not stutter.

I am clearly wondering if the only way I am able to easily say stuff is that if I concentrate on another person's vocal tone before I even start to speak.

I never know when I will open my mouth, so for me to speak fluently I will have to hear the sound of someone elses voice in my left ear even when I am not speaking.

I am not sure what my point is, but I think alot of my nasty stuttering is from the fact that I cannot hear any of my own vocal tone vibrations in my left ear.

And this will not make sense but hearing that alarm clock buzzer in my left ear sort of felt like I was hearing my own voice amplified in my left ear.

Concentrating on external sound from the air or others voices while I speak and even before I speak has made me realize that as long as I stutter on my own with no external sound to concentrate on like white noise, or another person's voice, that I am struggling along with people who will not understand me no matter how much I try.

Enough sermon!

If you still don't know what I am trying to explain, stay in my shoes today, and you would have felt so good, and so angered at this rare occurance!

happy7117
04-19-2008, 07:57 AM
That's right. I kid you not, today I had a very fluent chatty day!

I felt on cloud 9 or 18 and it was because I felt so darn fluent.

I don't believe it was a fluke either!

Then again it was a fluke that is very rare which I wish would occur every day.

Here's the thing:

Ever listen to the sound of an answering machine, or the alarm from an alarm clock??

Do you ever get a very confident feeling when something or a certain sound hits your ear, and it seems to match the sound of your voice when you talk??

I felt like when I could concentrate on the sound of the alarm clock buzzer in my left ear as I spoke, the stuttering went away....it was something to do with concentrating on that loud sound parralel to what I was saying.

Was the sound of that alarm clock amplifying my vocal tone so I could hear it better???

That confident feeling from hearing that sound from that alarm clock which boosted my flueny got me through most of the day with very little stutter.

It made me WANT to talk. It felt like a in my speech!

Also, I went to miniature golf today also.

Without saying anything at all, I concentrated on hearing others voices around me.

I tried to silently talk along with the voices that I was hearing from people talking around me, and again I did not stutter.

I am clearly wondering if the only way I am able to easily say stuff is that if I concentrate on another person's vocal tone before I even start to speak.

I never know when I will open my mouth, so for me to speak fluently I will have to hear the sound of someone elses voice in my left ear even when I am not speaking.

I am not sure what my point is, but I think alot of my nasty stuttering is from the fact that I cannot hear any of my own vocal tone vibrations in my left ear.

And this will not make sense but hearing that alarm clock buzzer in my left ear sort of felt like I was hearing my own voice amplified in my left ear.

Concentrating on external sound from the air or others voices while I speak and even before I speak has made me realize that as long as I stutter on my own with no external sound to concentrate on like white noise, or another person's voice, that I am struggling along with people who will not understand me no matter how much I try.

Enough sermon!

If you still don't know what I am trying to explain, stay in my shoes today, and you would have felt so good, and so angered at this rare occurance!

I broke my record for longest post...!

Daniel
04-19-2008, 10:37 AM
I'm not sure i totally understand :confused:

I've never been to a therapist or read any books on stuttering but I've found over the years that listening to my own voice while I'm talking, I mean really concentrating on the way the words sound can make me quite fluent. It does also slow your speech down some what, so maybe that has something to do with it.

nate
04-19-2008, 04:13 PM
Adam's posts sometimes take a few cracks at reading to understand Daniel :D

I totally agree with listening to one's own voice whilst working on one's speech, and I even record my speech and play it back to see where I can improve on the quality of my speech.

Sadly though, time to perform said exercises is all too rare nowadays :mad:

I would rather slit my throat than listen to myself on a recording. Makes me want to never ever talk again. I know I stutter, y do I need evidence???
Yow!
Nate

nate
04-20-2008, 07:56 PM
If you cannot bear to hear yourself talk Nate, how can you be comfortable talking to others?

It is not the stammering and blocks that I listen to, but rather the voice production, and how I talk when reasonably fluent, and what I can learn from it to transfer these little things into everyday conversations.

For me, learning to love every part of oneself is part of accepting (which doesn't mean satisfied) oneself how one is at this moment in time.

I dont know. I talk very little anyways and when I do, I stutter or block and it replays in my head over and over the whole day or even week. But at least I can convince myself that I'm making it alot worse than it really is.
When I hear a record of myself, it replays over and over in ing stereo and I can't delude myself into thinking its not as bad, it is! And the evidence is right there.
I just cant do it!

Nate

Manofsteel18765
04-21-2008, 07:07 PM
Hearing your own voice and talking with it is the principle the Speech Easy device works on. What happens it that when you speak it has a microphone and receiver and it is in one ear. It's like you are talking in unison with yourself. Usually stutterers do not stutter when the talk in unison with a group or sing. I am not advocating the speech easy, cuz its not for everyone. I think it only works about 50% of stutterers. Just helping to explain why you spoke better with talking with yourself.

Adrian
04-23-2008, 03:29 AM
I would rather slit my throat than listen to myself on a recording. Makes me want to never ever talk again. I know I stutter, y do I need evidence???
Yow!
Nate

Nate, maybe you should record your worst stuttering moments and play them over and over to yourself until you are no longer bothered by it. If you were to numb yourself to your own stuttering, I bet this would help your speech.

Just a thought!

nate
04-23-2008, 08:52 PM
Nate, maybe you should record your worst stuttering moments and play them over and over to yourself until you are no longer bothered by it. If you were to numb yourself to your own stuttering, I bet this would help your speech.

Just a thought!

No thanks:D
Adrian u usually give very good advice, what heppened???:D
Nate