You know stuttering is like sex. It is breath taking, daunting and most importantly you forever remember your first time! (August 12th during math tutoring ses

You know stuttering is like sex. It is breath taking, daunting and most importantly you forever remember your first time! (August 12th during math tutoring session about 35 years ago. I was struggling to say the word "multiply" getting stuck in the "mul") I suffer from a slightly different and less "famous" problem now which may have been caused by my stuttering - Clattering. As a kid in an effort to get past the "chokepoint", I would mumble a bunch of N words before and after to get over it. Most folks would just give up in pain or pity and I felt relieved. Ofcourse that habit stuck around for a long time even after I learnt to manage the stuttering (breathing exercises, toast masters, general confidence building, making fun of myself etc). Unlike stuttering Clattering results in a very general mumblyness even when you are not stuttering and is a lot harder to fix as in your head you sound coherent. But record yourself and you are staring into a lot of demons!