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 | | But even that therapy for stuttering was a lot better than the way things used to be: Throughout the 18th Century, flogging was a common remedy; in the 1840s, surgeons treated stuttering by severing the nerves at the base of the tongue. |
 | | For all its commonality, the stuttering community is as varied as any society--young, old, straight, gay--people whose disorder is so mild you barely notice it and others, such as Vicki Schutter, an effervescent Texan, with a stutter so severe it literally takes her a minute or more to ask my name. |
 | | The wall between stutterers and the rest of the world is built not only by childhood mocking and insults, but also by silence, the reluctance of nearly everyone--stutterers, their families, even therapists--to talk about it. |
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