Why do people who stutter, don’t stutter when singing?
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Childhood stutterer who mostly overcame it here. Speech therapy exercises involve starting your breath before you begin to speak. Words can be hard to start with “hard vowels” for instance. Say I had trouble saying “eggs”, they would have me breathe out and start to say the word mid breath, kind of low key sing-songing it. Singing is kind of the same, where when stuttering, you kind of seize up, singing involves a lot of breathing. This was always my theory.
I’m not sure the speech and music part of the brains are that disconnected, I’m a musician (guitar player) and we make involuntary mouth movements when playing.
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