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Interrupting a person with a stammer

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  • #32
    Crumble Froo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,196 ✭✭✭Crumble Froo


    i have a stutter, though for the most part, it's not too noticable now (unlike when i was younger and a lot less confident), but it was most prominent when i was really stressed and feeling completely out of my depth, at which point i loved nothing more than someone filling in the obvious end of my sentence and putting me out of my misery. frequently, i'd finish conversations with people, burning red, half way through a sentence, wave a hand and look away, occasionally near tears too. heh, ill never forget my first class presentation in college...


  • #33
    tech77
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭tech77


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    I knew a stammering solicitor in the UK who made his first appearance in the local magistrates' court after qualifying. We imagined that, by the time he finished defending his client, that same client could have finished a life sentence and be out on parole.

    I don't think he's a solicitor now. :(

    Was he fired and Joe Pesci hired instead? ;)
    4:40 in:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q7mjoxHzm4


  • #34
    pajodublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 993 ✭✭✭pajodublin


    rarnes1 wrote: »
    stammerer's are not the best joke tellers

    TRY TELLING THAT TO JIMMY FROM SOUTH PARK


  • #35
    S.I.R
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,836 ✭✭✭S.I.R


    Valeria Teeny Infantryman wrote: »
    Not sure of the exact difference between a stammer and a stutter, or if there even is one, But....

    Is it considered rude to finish off someon's sentance when you know what they're trying to say, if they have a speech impediment?

    i find it quite funny to cut in, even more so when they try to continue.


    brb gonna burn in hell.


  • #36
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    tech77 wrote: »
    Was he fired and Joe Pesci hired instead? ;)
    4:40 in:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q7mjoxHzm4

    He could have been, but the one that I knew was around about 10 years before that movie came out...:p


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  • #37
    wylo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,214 ✭✭✭wylo


    Genuine question,
    Is there something that can be done about it, any therapy or temporary drugs?

    I dont mean to offend people with a stutter but it can be equally as frustrating waiting for them to finish if its particularly bad.
    I knew a guy that could literally take a minute or 2 minutes to say one word. Believe me thats a long long time when waiting for someone to finish.
    At first I felt kinda sorry for him and let him off, but if there was a group of us having a conversation, any time he was going to say something we knew we were in for a big wait. Maybe I would have got used to it because I didnt know him well in fairness.

    Its all in the head id imagine, once something triggers it, thats the end of it. I suffer from seriously shaky hands because of nerves and some sort of anxiety. Its horrible because of the job im in, but Im trying to do something about it because its my problem not any body elses.


  • #38
    jill_valentine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    If somebody's obviously got a speech impediment, they shouldn't be embarrassed about it, I mean unless they're a bomb disposal instructor or something, I can afford to wait the extra few seconds to hear them out.


  • #39
    Turd Ferguson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    ShooterSF wrote: »
    Generally agree but what about when you do know? Again say you meet someone in a pub and you offer them a drink and they say "Bottle of Mil-mil-mil". At that point Im never sure if its rude to stand there pretending like you dont know what they want..

    A bottle of Milk of Magnesia?


  • #40
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Turd Ferguson wrote: »
    A bottle of Milk of Magnesia?

    No - whiskey!


  • #41
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,418 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    I have a guy working for me who has a pretty bad stammer. I have to say he managed to control it pretty well in the interview, I didn't realise quite how bad it was until he started work. That said, it's not a problem and it doesn't stop him being a good worker , which is all I really care about tbh. It would never even cross my mind to finish a word or sentence for him, that's just incredibly rude.

    I knew a guy years ago who had a really bad stutter. Just before I met him he'd been off in Sudan teaching local kids English. Everyone used to joke that the local kids thought that the tall things growing outside the classroom were called t-t-t-t-t-trees. I've become a much better person since then. :)


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