Breathing is fundamental to speech. A stammer is caused by erratic airflow, so if you have a smooth airflow, you have smooth speech.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright.
Speaking is what most people work on. They forget the thinking and the breathing and instead try to occupy space with sound.
I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.
I talk fast because I'm asthmatic, and I'm desperately hoping the words get out before my breath fails.
When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.
What I learned about stammering was that, when as a young child you lose the confidence of anyone who wants to listen to you, you lose confidence in your voice and the right to speech. And a lot of the therapy was saying, 'You have a right to be heard.'
The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.
I still have a stammer that I can control by not opening a sentence with a hard consonant, or by concentrating for a moment, breathing softly down. Growing up, the 'Our Father' was lovely, made for me, the 'Hail Mary' was gorgeous, and 'Glory Be to the Father' was an absolute nightmare.
It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.
From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.