Stuttering at the county fair - reactions throughout the life span
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Sharing my experience of stuttering at the county fair and the reactions from kids-adults. In this video I discuss this in terms of how society impacts stereotyping.
Any thoughts on how thoroughly EXHAUSTING speaking can be for a stutterer? Sometimes it feels like I've run a marathon, and I've only spoken maybe a few dozen sentences. After it's become obvious I'm having a bad day, I'll often decide that speaking just isn't worth the effort.
Thanks for these videos, Tiffani!
Yes, I definitely understand! I will consider that idea for a future video!
My friend severely stutters and she says she gets extremely exhausted after stuttering like all her energy is sucked out of her.
I love your videos. As a person who stutters, its very inspirational to see alot of these videos. Keep em up.
Awesome video! I subscribed to your channel so I can watch all of your other videos too when I have study breaks! lol =)
I love it! Thanks for subscribing!
Will you describe as an expert what are the chances of getting caught in a block that you can’t get out.
I would say that there is no such thing as a block that you can't get out of, but there are blocks that it takes a while. What it requires to get out of a block is to reduce the tension you having in order to get the sounds out. So it can certainly take a while to reduce that but if you work at it long enough and get that tension reduced, you can get out of the block. People can however feel embarrassed or ashamed before they get out of the block and instead just change the word.
Tiffani Kittilstved so what are we to do... stick with the block and try to win the block to get free OR switch to another sound which we are not even sure that we can come out.
Tiffani Kittilstved yes. However, as we speak or at least try to reduce the stutter we have no idea of WHERE we will get a severe block. We don’t know how the block will be or on what letter. You, block-on hard. very hard on many words. Your face is stressed to the max, your eyes are shut so tight and you repeat the sounds almost indefinitely. We are so similar. Eventually... you are released from that significant BLOCK and you get liberated... and you move on to the next block. That is an over-and-over phenomenon. We know that you will come out of it. However, what nobody can describe is what is going on in your head as you are BLOCKED ??? What are you seeing as you are tripping hard? What are your ears hearing as you are trapped? That is what we need to understand from an expert. You are a strong stutterer and an experienced speech pathologist. You should know how to paraphrase what you are going through as you are struggling to get a sound out over and over again. YOU can explain what you are feeling or better yet what does it feel like when you are forever BLOCKED other that it’s physical part which you have already described. Describe what it feels like. Come on start explaining. We all know what we do. We all know what stutter is. But we can explain how it feels because it happens within a coups seconds for most of us. For others if takes us a cent to get out of the captivity of a BLOCK. Explain that!
Tiffani Kittilstved
Ok. Let’s take your MIMOSA video as an example. You remember the one! You now need to explain what is going on as you are STRUGGLING to say-the-least to get that word out. You explained all the physical components that are involved. You explained the actions your mouth and all of its pieces are going through as you are severely blocked. It took 10 minutes to get all the physical components related to your stutter but NO info on how you feel as you are going through second-by-second for up to 40 seconds non stop BLOCKING. Only an expert like you can describe all this hardship into what feelings we feel! How does it feel like to you as you are spending forty seconds trying to say a simple sound? What are you seeing as you are trying to get that sound out? Where us your mind as you are trying to get out of that loop? That what we want to know.
It sounds like an instance of "inspiration porn," which masquerades as a compliment but actually is super condescending. "Oh, look at that person in a wheelchair ordering coffee! That is just so brave." Nope. They're just a person who wants coffee, like all of the rest of the tired, grumpy 9-5ers in this coffee shop. :D
Yes yes yes!!! That's totally what it is!
Can you explain voluntary blocking.
I don't really voluntarily block. I mostly use voluntarily stuttering as a way to stutter more easily (so it's usually just in the form of easy repetitions). Good question though - some people do use voluntary blocking as a means of desensitizing themselves to stuttering. For me, I only use repetitions but sometimes I try to use voluntary stuttering and end up having a real block instead.
Omg. That’s what I’m talking about. Your voluntary stutter turning into a huge block. Can we continue this in email? This is hard for me.
I don't really have any more insight on this. Stuttering is disorder related to losing control of your speech so sometimes even if we are trying to control it we still lose control - it's just the nature of stuttering unfortunately.