THE STAMMERER'S PLIGHT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 112, 14 May 1935, Page 6

THE STAMMERER'S PLIGHT.

It was with practical concern that I read those letters which recently appeared in the "■Star" with regard to stammering. They !o'd me to reflect upon my own painful experience, having been a victim of this affliction that poisons some of the joy of life for about thirty ' years. It was caused in the opinion of our family doctor by my brain travelling too quickly. This medical friend's advice to "Take it steady" has proved to "be invaluable. Immediately I etart to talk I find ideas accumulate most rapidly; trouble in attempting to express myself. It seems as if the whole'of what one wants to say has 'been thought out previous to the conversation commencing, instead of- it secreting as the discussion proceeds. Terror also strikes me if asked to read aloud, the complete page appears to present itself in the first few lines. A similar difficulty is felt when taking part in a public meeting. Confidence allows me to rise; but I falter .providing I endeavour to speak in any other manner than very slowly. T.H.