What Causes Stuttering?
Anna Deeter
15 Mar 2012
THE ONSET OF STUTTERTING
Here are several examples of how the stuttering/stupor develops. Stuttering is not a disease; it’s a habit developed through unconscious hypnosis at the moment of maximum stress and fear. The trance suggestion performed in such situation becomes memorized by a future stutterer instantly and remains in a human’s memory for a long time, sometimes forever.
Example #1
A dog is barking at a young boy. The child is scared; all his muscles, including the ones responsible for speech production, are paralyzed. This is a typical stupor developed as a result of an attempt to do the following two things at the same time: focusing on a subject of his fear (the dog) and trying to call for help or run away. However, a human cannot perform
consciously all of these actions simultaneously. At the same moment, with 
the horror face expression (which makes the situation even more pathological), the parent grabs (kinesthetic impact) his child numb of fear, looks straight in his eyes (strong visual impact), and produces a fatal suggestion, such as: “Don’t be quite, say something!!! Whate you trying to say? What? REPEAT IT FASTER!!!” The last phrase may be repeated 10-15 times! The poor child is desperately trying to say something, but instead, he remains quite because he cannot take his eyes of his parent’s terrified face and the scary dog. After a minute of such silence, the parent announces something like this: “Oh God! You have begun to stutter!” From this moment on, this kind of conversation between the child and his parent takes place more and more often and finally turns into a “normal” way of their communication. The child learns a bad habit of becoming numb whenever someone “important” is looking at him. He gradually masters this skill as every repetition of such interaction with other “important” people feeds to this habit. Next, child’s parents begin taking him to various specialists and increasing his belief in incurability of the disease. Also, because majority of humans never challenge such authorities as doctors and blindly believe their diagnoses, the myth of stuttering is considered as a proven fact in the society.Example #2
A child’s growth and early development occurs in the presence of a stuttering person.
As a result, the child gradually develops a bad habit of repeating speech segments in the way that person does. All children in the world acquire their speaking skills by listening to and copying of speech of people around them: their sounds, tone, rhythm, and speech SEQUENCE. Unconscious learning of incorrect speaking occurs especially quickly, when a child has to communicate with and copy the speech patterns after such authorities as his parents or a friend as he literally mirrors and copies in his brain all the pathological behaviors of the people that he focuses his attention on throughout the day. Example #3
Stuttering may be developed in school. Most of the time, it occurs during acquisition of reading skills. A young child is expected to be able to read a certain number of words in a minute. Such demand simply ignores the fact that each student’s brain development has individual characteristics. (Also, nobody can produce in one minute more than 60 words that
consist of 5-7 sounds ! If you do not believe, try it yourself!). If a child does not meet such equal for all fluent reading requirements, he becomes considered as not normal and may be retained because of that. The following thoughts constantly pop up in the child’s head: “I should say it faster! Like others! I cannot do this… I am not like them…” Placed under this kind of public pressure, such student attempts to speak faster and faster and as a result, he begins to stupor. One day, this kind of speech stoppage occurs during an important event accompanied by a great excitement. At this point, all three main reasons for stupor are present: 1) stress 2) external trigger 3) impossible to complete task. Occurrence of these three factors at the same moment inevitably leads to development of stuttering. Just as a student-freshman of medical school begins to self-study symptoms of diseases and finds them in himself, so does a child who diagnoses himself with a stuttering disease. The result is that development of a regular stupor becomes a bad habit at the certain moment. Even after the stuttering student has grown up, and many tasks that used to be impossible to complete for him in his young childhood have become possible now, however, this child still continues to stupor at the same certain moment without attempts to re-think, re-assess, and change his self-appraisal. Those lucky few who do think about changing of their speech and mental behaviors stop stuttering! The majority of people who stutter, carry their childhood fears and bad habits to their adult lives without any changes.Example #4
Stuttering may occur at any age as a result of a psycho-trauma.
After a psycho-trauma, not just a young child, but even an adult from the risk group may suddenly begin to stutterer – he or she may “forget” how to speak correctly and begin to stupor regularly in certain speech situations. Risk group consists of:
* Gullible people with weak self-consciousness and unstable mind (like, e.g. young children);
* People with undeveloped, underdeveloped, or disordered speech, which is a result of weak conscious memory;
* People with abnormally rapid speech;
* All former stutterers in the stage of remission;
* People with insufficient vocabulary;
* People with disordered attention.
The mechanism of neurotic type of stuttering is simple and has a hypnotic nature. All magicians and hypnotists are aware of the main rule for attention and memory and use this rule during their shows. The rule states that a human can focus his attention on only one unit of information at one moment. Based on this rule, a magician performs the following trick on stage: selects a gullible person from the audience and makes him instantly loose his ability to speak.
This is how it’s done. The “client” is asked to look straight in the eyes of the showman and say his name at the same time. However, because his attention is locked on the eyes of the hypnotist (visual perception), the person cannot switch his attention to his auditory memory and as a result, becomes dumb instantly. Humans cannot access their auditory perception while their attention is still locked on visual perception. This is the natural way, in which the human brain operates. Inability to speak scares the person, as he does not know what the magician has done to him and how this is even possible. The fear turns on the mechanism of enforcement of this stupor and remembering it by his conscious memory. In other words, the person begins to understand and believe that instant lost of his ability to speak is real; he becomes self-doubtful and afraid of not being able to begin speaking. This mechanism of “visually locked attention” turned on consciously (by a hypnotist on stage) or unconsciously (in the stressful visual situation) only once could be enough for this person to get used to this condition and become a stutterer because of an extremely powerful human’s ability to remember things and life events that cause stress or excitement. The higher level of excitement of the event, the brighter memory of it gets stored in the memory. Also, frequently repeating events become remembered easier and remain in the memory for as long as the lifetime. An event of “visually locked attention” while being emotionally high gets stored in the memory and becomes to appear every time in a similar situation. Any speech situation is the situation, that repeats frequently throughout the day. After the stage show, the hypnotized person remains normal and does not freak out because the hypnotist lets him know that his attention focus is no longer locked. At the same time, when a hypnotizing “visual anchor” is a real object and the process of locked attention becomes uncontrolled, such situation may trigger an instant and stable lost of speech – “visual stupor”. Regular repetition of this situation may lead to the development of neurotic stuttering. Stutterers turn the mechanism of visual stupor on by themselves and instantly lose their ability to speak in various situations, such as: at the store, during presentation, in meetings, talking on the phone, ordering food at a restaurant, initiating conversation with a stranger, etc. It appears strange to even the stutterers themselves. They may be speaking normally till their eyes stumble on the hypnotizing object – the “X-factor”, which makes them suddenly forget what they were going to say and begin unsuccessfully forcing out speech sounds (which only worsens the visual stupor!). Lack of success scares and leaves them feeling helpless. All stutterers will always react to the X-factor with the same visual (tactile or some other) stupor until they realize that they are the ones who have created this visual stupor condition within their own body. It has become a bad habit.Example #5
Severe stuttering may develop as a result of participation in traditional speech therapy sessions. The following speech therapist’s suggestions are extremely harmful: “You have a stuttering disease. Speak smoothly, speak at once – without breaks; prolong sounds; hit the rhythm while you speak; speak with chanting; focus on your breathing while speaking; maintain direct eye contact while speaking…” All such and other pathological orders significantly worsen stupor and lead to progression of a speech disorder.
