EMERGENCE

In her excellent site http://closetstutterer.blogspot.com/ ; Closet stutterer Sophie mentions working on what doesn’t immediately seem to be her stammering but to work on other issues. An excellent idea. It gets away from the chicken and egg situation I wrote of earlier.

Think of a cake, I like a rich fruitcake like a Christmas cake. What is the cause of the cake?
Not the baker who only brings the ingredients together in a time and tested way to allow the cake to emerge. Not the ingredients as each stands. There is no cause in raisins where the effect is a cake, and so on. The ingredients are brought together and mixed in a bowl. Now try to get the sugar out or the eggs; can’t be done. The mix is different to the sum of each ingredient. Not more than, just different – it can be an unwanted result!!

Also, to think of each ingredient: how fresh is it; how much is needed – we don’t want too much of any single part; what is the balance between the parts – we don’t want it overcooked.

Sometimes only one ingredient is overdone, sometimes they can be overdone in different proportions but the result is often unwanted and we can change what we employ and how we use it.

We can't look at the ingredients and say what they will cause; only a coming together of ingredients will allow a cake to emerge.

You get the idea.

To think that any behaviour is simple is to miss a lot and if we don’t look we wont see.

Stammering isn't curable any more than blushing is curable, we need to think differently and then it isn’t an issue and doesn’t emerge. But I agree with Sophie it is easier said than done.