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Terry Prone: Hold your tongue and give those with a stutter a chance to catch up

If you do not have a stammer, and are conversing with someone who does, stifle your interventive instincts: Shut up and let them speak
Terry Prone: Hold your tongue and give those with a stutter a chance to catch up

US president Joe Biden is a ‘cured’ stammerer. He has managed it so that when he’s delivering a speech, his fluency is mostly fine.

No, don’t try to be helpful. Above all, don’t try to be helpful. 

Never mind how much you want to end the self-evident miseries of the other person, stifle your interventive instincts and shut up. 

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