Why do people who stutter, don’t stutter when singing?
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I stutter. Most of stuttering is psychological and comes from the fear of not being able to say a word or sound. Then the physical fear response results in your muscles contracting a bit. The small part of stuttering that is physical is related to your diaphragm muscle locking up on you while breathing/exhaling as you speak, so that fear response results in your breathing locking up even worse, which results in no airflow, which then leads to stuttering.
When you sing, several things are different. You don’t have the fear of the social implications of stuttering. You’re also using different parts of your brain that aren’t wired for the same automatic fear response. You’re also usually using a different part of your diaphragm to breath which doesn’t have the physical blocking issue.
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