BP Totty said “
I have a friend who stutters, as does several of his kids. Yet, for some reason, they do not have the problem when they read kryiah. No idea why, but its just an interesting fact.”
I can offer an explanation, from personal experience. As a child I had a terrible stutter. It was a result of my mind going at 90 miles per hour and my mouth could only go at 55 mph. In my mouth’s futile attemots to catch up, the words would collide and produce the stutter. However, when I read from a prepared text,
my mind and mouth went at the same speed, and as a result, no stutter.
I’m still a stutterer, but because of the therapy I underwent as a teenager, I learned to recognize the signs of when my mind is starting to accelerate and to learn how to get it to slow down, rather than try to have my mouth catch up. I’ll alwats be a stutterer,it just doesn’t manifest itself as much any more.
All kids with this problem should get speech therapy and support
as other kids can be cruel. What they don’t need is an aunt like mine who thought it was funny to call me a shtimma bebbick, loosely translated as “marble mouth “