Do any of you sing? I mean have some talent and actually sound decent!
I have to gloriously admit I don't have any vocal skills.... not worth singing (pun intended) and dancing about anyway.
However I do have a tendency to talk a lot once I get into a flow. I can remember a colleague who once said I could talk for England, which I had to personally chuckle about. In fact, as a person who stammers I took it as a big compliment.
Anyway, why then do people in general, tend not to stammer when singing, or acting? I know when I'm public speaking, I stammer less. I still block on certain words, but I tend to care less.
Could it be possible, that when acting or singing, or public speaking we take on a different identity? The identity of a talented singer, or dramatic actor or confident speaker... perhaps we identify so much with this new identity (for how ever long it is), that it completely overpowers the identity of being a stammerer and the suffering we experience in some way, that we don't care. Or we forget for a short time.
I think a key question here is: What is so different when we take on roles requiring us to be courageous or to change, from how we usually see ourselves? Once we can find out this, we can think of how to replicate the positive behaviour(s) and attitudes and build ourselves around these.
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