Hesitation

My mother used to describe PWS as people having a hesitation and I wondered if mothers’ wisdom might be worth looking into.

The wonderful www.onelook.com online dictionary (add the link to your favourites) describes hesitation as:

noun: the act of pausing uncertainly
noun: indecision in speech or action
noun: a certain degree of unwillingness

and

to hesitate as:

verb: pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness

verb: interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing

Uncertainty, indecision, unwillingness and interruption: all of these suggest being in two minds or changing what is being thought about, at least.

Watch people speaking in a non-scripted program on TV or listen on the radio. Do they speak their minds literally or do they mentally rehearse the sentence before they say it?
No, they don’t have time for rehearsal they just say what comes to mind. When they think they simultaneously speak. They speak their thoughts and don’t second guess themselves or what is going on. There is a place for second guessing but it isn’t while speaking.

Our brains works too fast for our bodies so just doing one thing at a time allows us to keep up. I am typing this and if I start to think of where the letters are on the typewriter and at the same time wonder if I am getting them right even before I touch them, not to mention keeping to my train of thought, my failure rate rockets and I hesitate repeatedly!

If we attempt to rehearse each sentence before we speak we will speak in the same way as we think - all over the place - after all, when will we know that the rehearsal is complete.

When alone try looking in the mirror and speak about your feelings to the person looking back.

I could try to polish this post till I thought it was perfect for purpose but good enough for purpose will have to do. And I can always come back to the topic and clarify anything I think needs it. Similarities for speech?