Deliberate dysfluency? Just the ticket

http://www.stammering.org/deliberatedysfluency.html

Have a read.  Note particularly the emphasis on 'desire to be seen as a fluent speaker'.

Again the attention is on self. And with lots of monitoring.

The classic example of this is described in Matt McGinn's song: The Wee Kirkcudbright Centipede

http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/folk-song-lyrics/Wee_Kirkcudbright_Centipede.htm

Enjoy

Loss vs Gain

The psychologists tell us that we feel the pain of loss twice as much as the pleasure of gain and that is why we worry more about losing than gaining.

If you lose your stammer you could always go back and pick it up when you wanted like Ash talks about in his comment.  That is really managing speech.

What about forgetting to stammer? Can that be done?  Absolutely, I have seen and heard people forgetting to stammer and, I suspect, so have many of you.

Would not stammering be to deny your identity?

Wanting to stop a behaviour is a widespread aspiration eg smoking, drinking, swearing, fearing etc.

Is wanting to change a behaviour to say to ourselves I am not good enough?

Is what is required to continue the behaviour and just feel ok with it?

Some people change their behaviours and are ok with it eg learing to sing, voice improvement, speaking in public, becoming a parent, going to further education, learning to dance etc.  I suspect that they feel that they are ok in themselves but want to improve, in a particular way, and work at it.

Listen to an old recording of Billy Connolly and then a more recent one - big change in direction but not a different person in a total sense.  Also Kirsty Wark.  Done them both a bit of good!!