commentr/StutterJune 17, 2022

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I gotta say something for King's Speech. It seems to me this movie is spreading informations to its audience as other movies about stutterers that we PWS can SPEAK normally like normal speakers do, but after I watched William Parry's enlightening vids on youtube, I realized due to different neurologies we can't SPEAK the way normal speakers do. We should be mindful of this myth that we gotta try all means to generate natural fluency, but just think about it, this word 'natural' means you shouldn't 'try' to generate, right? That's also Parry's standpoint. Remember natural fluency, which is what normal speakers can accomplish all the time and our PWS's goals, can't be forced out by any means. We should realize we can't speak the way like normal speakers do, but, we can still be likely to 'communicate informations with others by MAKING SOUNDS', which means we shouldn't focus on fluency, instead, on speech's 'melody', which essentially is not 'speaking' anymore. I can't make my points very clear by only typing. Hope you guys can watch his vids, and I am not promoting. They are just very educational to me and that's all: [https://www.youtube.com/user/stutteringtherapist](https://www.youtube.com/user/stutteringtherapist)

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