Stuttering In Your Thoughts

[Sulligogs]

Hi eveyone.

Very simple question to ask here - do you ever stutter in your thoughts?

I do.

From time to time, perhaps on a "bad day", I would think of a sentence to myself and begin stuttering in my own thoughts. But, instead of getting panicky and flustered, it doesn't dominate my time as much. I don't seem to mind running the sentence over and over again in my mind until it sounds right.

Am I the only one here with this phenomon? Something tells me I am not.

[carewendy]

Hello Sulligogs and everyone.

Yes, I do stutter in my thoughts.

So many times i keep reciting in my mind to get it right. I have to do it over and over again.

So it's normal to stutter in our thoughts as well i suppose?

[Sulligogs]

Cheers carewendy for your feedback.

Tell you the truth I am a little bit taken aback that nobody else has posted on this thread about it.

Surely, there must be others who have pondered over it from time to time.

Is there so few of us that find this not a bit weird. That nobody else has really asked this question before???

And what does it mean, to stutter in your thoughts? Could it be that until it stops you can not speak fluently in dialogue?

[carewendy]

Hello Sulligogs, :)

You know I will go through whatever i wish to speak in my head for a moment. During that moment, i stutter. It is this moment in my mind that i stutter that made me not dare to speak out aloud.

This is the reason why many of times, i just forgo my thought and just keep quiet about it.

I dread the idea of myself stuttering aloud, even when i just think mentally.

[Bobby]

Hey guys, this is my first post :)

anyway to the topic.

i find that i have never stutter'ed in my head/thoughts. its really interesting. as i write this i'm saying it through in my head, and i'm not stuttering.

i dont really stutter that much, i get mostly blocks now.

[Asif]

Interesting question.
I think I USED to stutter mentally, and definitely did so in dreams.
Now I do not, but then my speech has improved about 95% at age 52.
I was a singer/guitarist for many years, and I remember ONE occasion where I even stuttered when I sang. THAT was worrying!
But I think it was stress-induced, and it never happened again.
I find I do run sentences through in my head several times, but that is probably more to do with delivery than fear of stuttering. I think that we listen to ourselves much more than non-stutterers and thus are more able to adjust our delivery than "normal" people. I often shudder in horror at some "normal" people's delivery, thinking: "My God" Can't they HEAR themselves???"
The way I speak now is a hybrid mixture of accents from countries in which I've lived across the years. I have no idea what my native accent was like, since I stuttered so badly that I probably never even developed one. A real danger here lies in losing track of who and what you are. That happened to me, and it was years before I realised the implications and set about consciously remedying it.
I say again: Meditation :)
And don't fall into the trap of taking yourself too seriously.
Asif.

[Professor]

i dont stutter at all in my mind only when when i have to think about it and say it outloud i stutter a bit.

[llw03c]

situations where you don't stutter:

1. in your thoughts
2. when you're talking to yourself or reading aloud to yourself
3. whenever you're saying something and not thinking about HOW you're saying it
4. when you give presentations (at least for me most of the time..luckily)
5. sometimes when you're out and drinking...then you can't get me to shut up..

[Professor]

i could agree soo much with the first 3 expecially the 3rd one when i dont think about what im going to say i just blurt it out it goes really well.

[Sam]

Hell no, I dont stutter in my thoughts... like when im thinking of something... I dont stutter if thats what you mean, because I dont think anyone would stutter when they are thinking. But sometimes I remind my self of how stupid I sound...

[Professor]

LOL^ yeah i talk to myself about stuff or when i just practice talking to myself i dont stutter at all only with certain people or in front of a class.

[wenchnwitches]

I often wonder why I don't stutter when I am saying my prayers aloud in the privacy of my room, and then I bargain with God for him to make my speech this fluent.

[Jessica]

I don't stutter when I I have thoughts in my head really I think that stuttering is like a pychological thing because the less I think about it I won't stutter but the more I think about what I am going to say the more nervous I get and I start stuttering

[Professor]

^exactly......