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“Well, then I began to change these things. I made more
phone calls and tried to jerk my head in the same way but
on words I wasn’t afraid of, and more slowly and on purpose.
Then when the real head-jerking occurred, I tried jerking it
to the left or moving my head and jaw slowly rather than
swiftly. I found I could change and control it and when I did,
I didn’t feel helpless. I got so I could change the involuntary
jerk into a voluntary one.
“Then I was no longer a slave to the habit but the
master. Also by slowing down the repetitions that preceded
it, I discovered that I could prevent it from happening.
There was one other thing that I did too that helped greatly.
I experimented with relaxing my jaw and neck when
beginning to stutter. Couldn’t always do it, but when I did
I found I could keep my head steady and in control. What a
relief! I’ve got a long way to go but at least when I stutter
I’m no longer that abnormal monster I once was.”
Another stutterer had a habit of tapping his foot when
he stuttered, sort of beating time to the word or syllable.1 To
find out how bad it was and exactly what he was doing, he
picked out some speaking situations and counted the number
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