Zitat des Tages über Stottern / Stutter:
I used to not stutter any. Oh, I did when I was a kid, I stuttered, I had a bad stutter until I was probably between the second and third grade and a guy got rid of it for me.
When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter.
I will always have a stutter.
It's nothing to be ashamed of to have a stutter.
I had a stutter 'till... I still do today. I just work on it a lot. I obsess, if you will, with it, but I stuttered throughout my childhood.
When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened.
Well, no, you can prepare it all you want, but I'd still stutter.
The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others.
People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.
But now I've been in the arena for 47 years and I stutter less today than I did in those days.
Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.
When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.
If you're a kid, it's all you think about if you stutter. Kids can be so mean. My grades suffered. Class participation weighs heavy in grading, and I wouldn't open my mouth to read or talk in front of anyone.
I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ad.' And that turned into a mumble.
I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my paragraph and being mortified and trying to read it enough times so that I wouldn't stutter and stammer, getting called on, even in high school.
Rebecca Black might sing like a robot, but that's just proof she has evolved beyond us. Her vocal is just a slightly exaggerated version of the robot glitch-twitch stutter that's been mainstream pop vocalese for the past 10 years or so.
People don't know. People are ignorant. They feel that if you stutter, then you're slow or whatnot.