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From: Tom Weidig (thestutteringbrain.blogspot.com)
Date: 19 Oct 2010
Time: 09:47:43 -0500
Remote Name: 88.207.192.117
I completely agree with you. My view is that the jams are neurological in the sense that the speech system is not able to cope with demanding signalling traffic under certain circumstances. This leads to abnormally long and frequent jams. This is constantly happening in people who stutter and on top the child starts to react and learns to adapt to this jamming. I would say that the onset is just the moment it becomes apparent. A bit like noticing your engine is not working well only at top speeds but not in the first weeks when you only drove at high speeds. Or like saying that the baby "is there" when in fact it developed slowly and continuously over nine months. Birth is just the moment it becomes public.