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What if the stress level affects the dopamine level and that affects the stutter? I have a stutter too and this was a very interesting article to add to my "he

What if the stress level affects the dopamine level and that affects the stutter? I have a stutter too and this was a very interesting article to add to my "head-canon" on why people stutter. My stutter is also affected by moods. Maybe we're living -- or rather, speaking -- on the edge of the brain-body connection.

quercusa 6y ago
I had a roommate with a stutter, but never when telling a joke, talking to the dog, or singing. We are way more complicated than we understand!
- arethuza 6y ago
  "never when telling a joke" Rowan Atkinson has a stutter, but not when he is in character: https://www.stutteringhelp.org/content/who-knew-mr-bean https://www.stutteringhelp.org/content/who-knew-mr-bean "It comes and goes. I find when I play a character other than myself, the stammering disappears. That may have been some of the inspiration for pursuing the career I did."
- amelius 6y ago
  The singing part has been investigated: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2996848/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2996848/ > As illustrated in this paper, singing represents a promising therapeutic tool in a variety of neurological disorders. Singing is particularly useful in ameliorating some of the associated speech-motor difficulties because of features such as continuous voicing, decreased production rate, and increased awareness of individual phonemes. Although the precise mechanisms underlying the efficacy of singing remain largely unexplored, a number of hypotheses have been proposed
- dmitryminkovsky 6y ago
  I stutter on jokes all the time, it’s pretty pathetic. Good for him, sounds uncharacteristic of a stutterer to be honest. But I’ve never heard of anyone who stutters when they sing. Something about singing makes the fluency a lot easier.
  - gee_totes 6y ago
    It's not pathetic -- do you look at someone in a wheelchair and think how pathetic they are? It's not pathetic -- it's just some fucking bullshit that happens. We need to cut through all the bullshit and love ourselves. :)

quercusa 6y ago

I had a roommate with a stutter, but never when telling a joke, talking to the dog, or singing. We are way more complicated than we understand!

arethuza 6y ago
"never when telling a joke" Rowan Atkinson has a stutter, but not when he is in character: https://www.stutteringhelp.org/content/who-knew-mr-bean https://www.stutteringhelp.org/content/who-knew-mr-bean "It comes and goes. I find when I play a character other than myself, the stammering disappears. That may have been some of the inspiration for pursuing the career I did."
amelius 6y ago
The singing part has been investigated: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2996848/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2996848/ > As illustrated in this paper, singing represents a promising therapeutic tool in a variety of neurological disorders. Singing is particularly useful in ameliorating some of the associated speech-motor difficulties because of features such as continuous voicing, decreased production rate, and increased awareness of individual phonemes. Although the precise mechanisms underlying the efficacy of singing remain largely unexplored, a number of hypotheses have been proposed
dmitryminkovsky 6y ago
I stutter on jokes all the time, it’s pretty pathetic. Good for him, sounds uncharacteristic of a stutterer to be honest. But I’ve never heard of anyone who stutters when they sing. Something about singing makes the fluency a lot easier.
- gee_totes 6y ago
  It's not pathetic -- do you look at someone in a wheelchair and think how pathetic they are? It's not pathetic -- it's just some fucking bullshit that happens. We need to cut through all the bullshit and love ourselves. :)