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From: Joseph Dewey
Date: 22 Oct 2005
Time: 16:08:16 -0500
Remote Name: 24.10.194.97
Hi Jonelle. I think that an interesting thing about cluttering is how little attention is paid to the clutterer's own voice. That was the case with me. I don't remember ever hearing my voice recorded except for very controlled situations like recordings of readings, and clutterers can do those pretty well without disfluencies. So, I think that to answer your question, I was completely unaware of how my voice sounded. I just never thought about it. I'm sure that I felt out of control and had difficulty expressing myself, but I never made the connection that there was something wrong with my speech. I actually think not thinking about my voice is the same thing that happens with a lot of fluent people. I would guess that over half of all adults haven't heard their voice recorded in spontaneous conversation in the last 10 years. The only thing that I remember is that I had a friend who stuttered when I was about 20, and I remember trying to talk like him because it was easier to speak that way. I've heard of another clutterer doing that, and I wonder if I did that as a way of very roughly organizing my speech, because speaking in a broken, stuttered-like way was a very rudimentary way of progressing my speech.