Re: stuttering, the only person I knew who stuttered was highly gifted, particularly in verbal areas. He was an excellent writer and eventually was fluent in five languages. In his childhood, I don't think anyone listening to him would have predicted those outcomes.
In NZ we have a children's commissioner who was before that a judge who studied law because one of his teachers said something along the lines of "with that stutter you better not be a lawyer". I stutter sometimes when I am thinking ahead of what I am saying, I also leave the ends off words when writing sometimes. Maybe it is just an overload thing.
