People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
People are usually afraid to say what's on their mind.
A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.
People don't know. People are ignorant. They feel that if you stutter, then you're slow or whatnot.
The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others.
You see failed vocabulary in the adult world so often, and it's often because once you reach a certain age you're kind of embarrassed to go look up a word if you don't know what it means.
I don't like it when people don't act on their words.
Many people must have noticed the intense attention given by children to the conversation of grown-ups when they cannot possibly be understanding a word of what they hear. They are trying to get hold of words, and they often demonstrate this fact by repeating joyously some word which they have been able to grasp.
Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.
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