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It is easy to see why people find it hard to understand stuttering. Sometimes you speak quite easily, and at other times talking is difficult.
When you play alone in your room and talk out loud, everything is fine. When you talk to a baby or a pet animal, you usually don’t have any trouble. When you sing, the words come out fluently. Some children don’t stutter when they are angry; for others, being mad will make the stuttering worse. Perhaps it’s easy to talk to your younger brother or sister, but you have difficulty talking to grown-ups.
Some children stutter a lot at school and very little at home. Others are fairly fluent at school and stutter most at home. Many children stutter less or not at all during vacation. But many others talk more easily when they go to school every day and stutter more when on vacation. Children who are tired out or sick tend to stutter more, but there are also those who stutter less when they are tired or sick. Can you take all this in? It is really hard to understand because stuttering comes and goes and seems to be changing all the time. That is why people find it so hard to deal with. Every child talks in his own way. One speaks slowly, another rapidly. Some children speak in a low voice, others in a loud voice. Everybody has a special way of talking, and every child stutters in his or her own special way. That is just as it should be. Wouldn’t it be boring if we were all alike?