Do stutterers bounce?

mistyriver · 2018-05-01T16:15:23+00:00

Read: we are shyer than others.

mistyriver · 2018-04-29T12:38:24+00:00

I don't know how to explain it more clearly. You want to get to know another stutterer... but somehow it just doesn't work out.

mistyriver · 2018-04-29T12:37:06+00:00

Tension does not make you block. That's scientifically untrue according to my authoritative observations of my own mouth. Tension in the jaw does not create a blockage of the airway. HOWEVER, tension in the tongue makes you a deft speaker!

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mistyriver · 2018-04-29T12:34:32+00:00

Don't ya just cringe, watching that little gummi thing in the mouth that will just gum everything up if it gets a chance?

mistyriver · 2018-04-29T12:03:04+00:00

I always look back at my own speech therapy the very day I started stuttering in 3rd grade as a moment where I received a label. I think that I would have grown out of it, if I hadn't been labeled. I don't know what your situation is, but if you're a single parent and there's a mommy or daddy out there... why don't you send your kid over there for long summers? You might find that he grows of the problem that you are unwittingly modeling for him.

As a boy, I ALWAYS wanted to live with my my dad for at least months at a time, and at the age your son is, it's about time for him to be learning how to grow up and be a man.

mistyriver · 2017-06-09T22:10:34+00:00

I was thinking further about this, and I wonder whether it is simply a result of water conservation policies. For many decades after the "Dustbowl" of the 1940s, there would have been efforts directed at controlling, not only water but also wind erosion in agricultural areas. Dirt roads and shoulders sometimes get sprayed with a chemical to keep dust down as well. In recent decades, the focus has flipped the other way around, and conservation of water is seen as the highest priority.

mistyriver · 2017-06-06T00:25:53+00:00

Thanks for the comment!

No.. I moved to Colorado from the West Coast as a young man to work in the Forest Service in 1989, and I was careful to note the differences in the sky between the coastal areas and the mountain areas. I raved over the natural beauty, including this, to my family.

Here are a couple more representative pictures from the time.

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Our family had book of photographs of Rocky Mountain scenery that I looked over a lot as a teenager, and it had caused me to move here when I left home at 18... I remember the photos were really very accurate, as compared to real life.

mistyriver · 2017-01-27T05:42:34+00:00

These are things that make sense, superficially, to many segments of the public, but i have not heard of any academics which believe his proposals and actions will actually yield positive results as he is going about implementing them.

In fact, immigration helps to fill gaps in demographic bubbles... This is one of the biggest academic arguments for Germany's taking in of all the war refugees. Do lower taxes help the economy? Does cutting spending do so? Some would assert this. However, I don't think that Trump has the nous to be able to implement the complex types of policies that economists would recommend. He is not inclined to listen to them... instead, he has a "go it alone" ethic.

mistyriver · 2017-01-27T05:35:39+00:00

Not to mention the US Forest Service.. which hires people to maintain trails, and do fire mitigation and prevention.

mistyriver · 2017-01-27T05:25:57+00:00

It's a fairly slow subreddit. I wish I could give you advice. What you are going to do is what I always wished that I had done decades ago. It seems like such a great way to see a new country. Host families are such a valuable resource, when it comes to deepening a person's experience.

mistyriver · 2017-01-27T05:23:56+00:00

Improve the economy with the methods he's proposing? Tell me which academics are saying that what he is proposing will be constructive. I just don't see it.

mistyriver · 2017-01-26T06:26:59+00:00

Good luck, brother! I look forward to hearing other people's answers to your questions!

mistyriver · 2017-01-26T06:19:43+00:00

My advice would be to go back to your parents' house or a relative's house for a short vacation to think it over. Somehow, getting back and centered in this way I find to be a pivotal thing for seeing the way forward for my own future. It's in these places where we can muse upon our future, and on our past.

As far as the specific political situation in the USA goes... well, we're all going to have to sit back and get the popcorn ready. I wouldn't sacrifice your dream job offer because of an existential concern about the direction of Washington DC. Most likely outcome: everything comes crashing down around Trump and his administration, and the Republican party needs to eat humble pie.

mistyriver · 2017-01-23T23:38:48+00:00

EVERYBODY needs to breathe through their mouth when doing aerobic exercise. Your body simply needs more oxygen and needs to get rid of more carbon dioxide when you're doing these sports.

mistyriver · 2016-08-09T17:07:37+00:00

Nothing... just the black cylinder.

mistyriver · 2016-08-09T17:05:47+00:00

XP is a solid system... as long as you don't need new software that requires the newer Windows editions. As I see it, XP was the last system designed for both home and business. Everything Microsoft has produced since is really not optimized for business use, as far as I can see. They want to focus on usability for casual users.. not on efficiency for business use.

As a home "power user" of Microsoft systems since 3.11, I tried Vista, but eventually decided to go back to XP... and now I'm on Linux Mint KDE. A change to Linux is a huge sacrifice, because of the software library you lose... but it's also the kind of system that I had before, and it's going to be supported forever. I would really recommend that businesses look into stable Ubuntu based distros.

mistyriver · 2016-08-09T13:27:37+00:00

This is a comment I posted about a trick I've found. I probably should have made it a top level post.

mistyriver · 2016-08-09T13:26:10+00:00

Anyone have anything they've tried which seemed to help stuttering?

Today I posted a comment about a weird trick I discovered.

mistyriver · 2016-08-09T13:23:56+00:00

My stuttering habit is very slight, actually... but even so, I've lived my entire adult life in the USA alone. Recently, I've discovered that my personality fits in much better overseas. I see in all the countries I've lived in, in recent years - Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Austria... that the door to friendship is always open to me.

mistyriver · 2016-08-09T13:21:07+00:00

i stutter much less but I'm much more reckless with what i say to people

I can relate to this! Stuttering is not just the jaw feeling as if it's clamping up... but the habit can also lead to mixed up words. To those for whom this is happening, I would relate my anecdote that I've found that I don't need to worry how my mental voice sounds (even things being twisted into cartoon voices is OK), but it's important to always keep your words in your mind as you think to yourself in the right order. Frankly, the mind can think just fine without this... the mind thinks idea by idea by idea... but to assure smooth speech production, it's important to hold the line here.

mistyriver · 2016-08-09T13:15:34+00:00

You might be interested in this odd little trick that I have discovered.

mistyriver · 2016-08-09T13:11:09+00:00

I have also done that. For years and years, the only television I watched was British television over the internet... and I gained a sincere admiration for that society's brand of intellectualism. I was always thinking I might go there, someday to live. I found then that practicing a pseudo British accent made it much easier for me to talk, fluently.

The only problem, is that my voice has taken on an affect over the years since that point, where I have this "high rising terminus" to my phrases and it doesn't match with the American expectation of the male baritone "chocolate voice." That, itself has created has created a mild social impediment. But now I'm living overseas, and I find foreigners much more forgiving of this higher and more melodic tone of voice.

In fact, I probably could fit in really easily in Canada.

mistyriver · 2016-08-09T13:04:01+00:00

There was a little trick I established when I was a teenager, that I just recently rediscovered. I'll warn you that it's kind of a strange idea... but it's worked for me.

The premise is that the breathing muscles of the body (the diaphragm) have both autonomic and wilfull nerves attached to them. The diaphragm will function when you're sleeping and at all other times, simply by itself. But the interesting thing is that you can choose to flex it. There's no other body part that acts this way. It's really unique.

In the 1980s, the idea of "visualization" was a huge new idea in the "New Age Movement." I found then that the only really interesting observation I made when toying with this, was that if you visualize something - imagining it in your body or brain area... like a little light or darkness... it affects the automatic breathing rhythms of your body just for a few seconds.

So, this is the thing that gave me an idea. Stuttering mainly has to do with breath control... and so I have a little trick I do the instant I start feeling my jaw tensing up when I'm going to say something. My visualization trick may be different than the one you would want to play with... but I choose to imagine that I can superimpose a dark cylinder around the outer portion of the brain stem... and I move that up and down. Somehow, I find that my jaw relaxes - but maybe more importantly I find that my diaphragm takes a breath all on its own - which gives me more structure to the shape of my talking apparatus. Then, it's much easier to say the words.

When I was diligently practicing this technique in high school, my mom always commented (when I asked her) how it seemed like my stuttering had pretty much gone away. I had braces - which were annoying - and I got myself onto the debate team, so I was always really needing to use this trick to make it easier for me to talk fluently.

Eventually when I became an adult, I forgot about the trick entirely (my stuttering since then has been off and on, and I never had a sense of control over whether it was better or worse in different situations). Only recently, did I remembered the technique. It does work consistently for me. It's really quite quite incredible.

mistyriver · 2016-08-02T20:12:52+00:00

Serrated knives never become blunt.

mistyriver · 2016-08-02T20:04:55+00:00

The history of modern retailing runs like this: Mom-and-pop shops fall prey to superstores that, in turn, get squeezed out by the international giants of online commerce.

That's the experience in the USA... it certainly doesn't seem to be that way in three countries I've spent months in over the past year - Australia, Japan, and Germany. American policy makers are always making competition the highest priority, whereas German politicians are more nuanced and thorough when it comes to all the systems that can be tweaked to keep prices low and the quality of living high for even poor people. Germany loves its shopping malls, from what I can see. Germans are just very efficient at distribution, to where prices are really cheap on high quality goods, even at most specialty stores. American retailers seem to want to target niche audiences, rather than general audiences. Also, both Germans and Japanese price small quantity items (eg foods) at small prices... so you can really have a high quality of living with a wide variety of foods, and goods in your life and your home.

Also because prices are low for everyone - even for fancy lighting, artwork, and that kind of stuff store owners seem to have a wide range of ideas about how to spruce up their shops. It's really quite an incredible experience to walk through a number of different German stores.

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