Stuttering and lisping / by E.W. Scripture.

  • Edward W. Scripture
Date:
1912
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Credit: Stuttering and lisping / by E.W. Scripture. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are the butts of innumerable anecdotes in the news- papers and on the stage. The stutterer learns that people regard him as a kind of involuntary clown and that his family and friends are ashamed of him. Few persons realize how terrible life becomes to a stutterer. A normal person may get a mild idea of it by supposing that every time before he speaks he is obliged to wink one eye or to open his mouth and yawn; the feeling of embarrassment and shame would soon overpower him. A stutterer is worse off; every time he tries to speak he is obhged to make a fool of himself in such a way as to make other people want to laugh at him. One religious but stuttering lady finally demanded to be cured or chloroformed. One boy often threw himself on the floor, begging his mother to tell him how to die. Another boy asked- for a letter to his father, telling him to keep the other children from laughing at him. Many stutterers become so sensitive that they imagine everybody is constantly making fun of them. The life of a stutterer is usually so full of sorrow that it can hardly be said to be worth Hving. At school the child is tormented by his fellow mates. He is usually a trial to the busy teacher
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