Fear equals a stutter?

[Anonymous]

I was recently told in a SAM meeting by a PWS that a stutter begins with fear and that as soon as you have speech fears, you have already started stuttering.

3 weeks ago, I hosted the SAM meeting and my heartbeat sped up a bit (I am not used to public speaking as I do not do it at all in my daily life). So by that PWS’s definition, even though I have not stuttered in 3 and a half years, I am actually still a stutterer, and even though I did not stutter once throughout hosting the SAM meeting, I DID in fact stutter. This is absolutely ludicrous.

We also know that most fluent people have speech fears when doing public speaking, so it would also mean that those fluent people who fear speaking in public actually stuttered, even though they did not stutter. Do you see how nonsensical this is? An opinion like that will keep you stuttering for the rest of your life.

Remember, that first stuttering has to cease and only after this is done, will the brain stop generating feelings of fear when speaking, as it will finally learn that speaking does not have to equal fear. I stopped stuttering after 3 months, but speech fears remained with me for up to a year after I cured.

If I had believed that fear equalled stuttering, I would never have stopped stuttering long enough to form a fluency habit as every time I had a fear, I would think “oh well you had a speech fear, so you might as well stutter”. This would mean that I would keep strengthening my stuttering habit and I would still be stuttering today.

Stuttering does NOT begin with fear. Stuttering begins when you STARTT STUTTERING. You can have all the fears in the world, but if you do not ALLOW yourself to stutter, you never will! You are not a victim of you fears, BE THE BOSS OF YOUR MIND!

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