In the beginning, God created heaven and earth and the Ferrari. And then he created Ferruccio Lamborghini, a man convinced he could have done a better job of just about all of it. Ferruccio is long gone, but Lamborghini management, under the watchful eye of Audi, carries the same conviction.
Doctors don't know why this happens. Stuttering may run in the family. It may be triggered by things like stress or a developmental delay. In rare cases, stuttering may be caused by brain damage, such as after a head injury or a stroke.
After months of fruitless efforts, one day she repeatedly pounded my left wrist and knuckles with a steel ruler until my hand and knuckles started bleeding. Psychologists and speech therapists attribute this incident with the onset of my stuttering. Another lesson is anger can produce fluency for someone who stutters.