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Stuttering/Speech fluency and cannabis

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Hey everyone, since I'm a teenager i've allways stuttered a little bit, and I want to know more about the effect of cannabis on stuttering. I've done research on the internet and there is very little information on it, so I'm turning back to you guys.

So from my experience...

When I just smoked (while I'm high), I stutter less. It's probably because I'm more relaxed but if I smoke too much then I may stutter more.

When I'm not high, I stutter more if I smoked in the past few days than if i didn't.

So.. hows does cannabis effect speech fluency for you guys?
 
It depends on how much I've smoked and such of course... but typically, I find it hard to produce fluid, logical sentences and end up stumbling over my words (and sometimes stuttering) when I'm high. It kind of gets so frustrating sometimes to the point where I just stay quiet and keep to my own thoughts so I won't have to deal with the nonsense spilling out of my mouth haha. It's like when I'm high, all of my thoughts make perfectly clear sense in my head, yet when I try to talk and explain them, it comes out staggered and jumbled and never in the way I intended.
 
DivineMmtsofTruth said:
It depends on how much I've smoked and such of course... but typically, I find it hard to produce fluid, logical sentences and end up stumbling over my words (and sometimes stuttering) when I'm high. It kind of gets so frustrating sometimes to the point where I just stay quiet and keep to my own thoughts so I won't have to deal with the nonsense spilling out of my mouth haha. It's like when I'm high, all of my thoughts make perfectly clear sense in my head, yet when I try to talk and explain them, it comes out staggered and jumbled and never in the way I intended.
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I'm kinda similar.

When I'm sober I can express myself very well, but I'm pretty bad at conversing while stoned, except when I'm with my best friends, all of whom are people I've been smoking with regularly for 5 or more years.

I'm like you, when I'm high my thoughts make sense to me but I lose any trace of eloquence I otherwise have. I stumble over words, forget words, use inaccurate words to describe my thoughts and in general sound a lot dumber. Occasionally I even stutter a little, which I never do sober. I also have a much harder time thinking of things to talk about and responding to what others are saying in a smart or witty way. A lot of the time when I smoke with people I don't know very well we end up sitting around listening to music and having minor conversations with many awkward silences.

On top of that, weed slows down my speech significantly, and I slur my words together a bit more stoned.

So basically weed fucks up my speech fluency pretty majorly, but I'm decent at communicating while stoned because I've been stoned for 90% of the last 3 years, and for several years before that I was stoned most of the time that I was socializing. I think it's something you kinda get used to, being around people stoned. But my speech almost always is what gives away the fact that I'm high. The speech issues are a lot worse with schwag due to the cloudy headed high and the tired, slowed down feeling I get from it.
 
Never had any speech problems in my life, but when i'm baked (sometimes even just a little) my words get all tangled up and I stutter and mumble. makes me feel like a right spaz. :/

just my 2cents
 
psychomimetic said:
. The speech issues are a lot worse with schwag due to the cloudy headed high and the tired, slowed down feeling I get from it.
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Now that I think of it.. that's true, and that's probably what's increasing my speech fluency problem because I noticed that my issues were more present the past few weeks, and I have been smoking crappy weed for the past few weeks because I have a good quantity of it. Thanks for helping me realise that man, I'll stop smoking that schwag I got and I'll got get some decent weed because speech fluency problems are very frustrating.
 
^Yeah I usually smoke schwag, and it really impairs me much more then when I smoke the dank, especially sativa strains that have a more energetic high.
 
Ha! I remember thinking a few years back that cannabis was causing me to stutter over words I normally never had before, and it could be true, but either way, it stopped after about 2-3 years of use completely. It wasn't overly noticeable, in fact I'd doubt anyone but me really payed any attention to it as it was so infrequent.

Just thought I'd give you my personal story. I haven't heard of it happening to anyone else IRL but have read a few threads about it in the time I've been here. People generally complain of muscle spasms as well as decreased speech ability.
 
When I smoke I get this feeling in my throat like I have a bunch of flem stuck in it. Makes it hard for me to speak clearly or with much volume, its strange.

I've wondered if anyone else had speech problems when they smoke, I used to love wake and baking but now I can't because if I do my speech will be screwed up for half the day.

Its almost like smoking makes me too timid to be my loud talkative self. But darn its just so good.... %)
 
Man it helps me express my self but it dosent have much of an effect on stuttering but i sometimes have to think for the word im looking for for a sex
 
If I'm with other stoners I'm fine, but being around sober people makes me feel nervous and makes me "socially retarded" i do stupid things, say stupid things, stutter, look really wierd, actually become slightly autistic. But when in a situation with friends i'm fine. Maybe its just paranoia making me wierd, but i would say cannabis does effect my self expression in positive and negative ways. With cannabis its all about set and setting though.
 
I actually find that cannabis helps me with stuttering, I can speak with alot more confidence and fluency than when I am sober. Not when I get really stoned though, then I am standing looking like a douche while I try to find the word I'm trying to say for like 5 minutes....
 
I studder when I have intense cotton mouthed and can't even swallow let alone speak when my drink is out of arms reach. other than that im fluid as shit with my words
 
I've personally never have had a problem with speaking while high or not.

However, my dad stutters a lot but almost not at all while high. :\
 
psychomimetic said:
I'm kinda similar.

When I'm sober I can express myself very well, but I'm pretty bad at conversing while stoned, except when I'm with my best friends, all of whom are people I've been smoking with regularly for 5 or more years.

I'm like you, when I'm high my thoughts make sense to me but I lose any trace of eloquence I otherwise have. I stumble over words, forget words, use inaccurate words to describe my thoughts and in general sound a lot dumber. Occasionally I even stutter a little, which I never do sober. I also have a much harder time thinking of things to talk about and responding to what others are saying in a smart or witty way. A lot of the time when I smoke with people I don't know very well we end up sitting around listening to music and having minor conversations with many awkward silences.

On top of that, weed slows down my speech significantly, and I slur my words together a bit more stoned.

So basically weed fucks up my speech fluency pretty majorly, but I'm decent at communicating while stoned because I've been stoned for 90% of the last 3 years, and for several years before that I was stoned most of the time that I was socializing. I think it's something you kinda get used to, being around people stoned. But my speech almost always is what gives away the fact that I'm high. The speech issues are a lot worse with schwag due to the cloudy headed high and the tired, slowed down feeling I get from it.
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QFT x 100000

One of the worst parts about weed when I'm reallllly stoned is sometimes my facial expressions or the way I say words will be misinterpreted. I can't really express my emotions very accurately. For example, I'll be very interested in a conversation but I might look bored because I'm so high.

Now, I only smoke a bit, like half a bowl at the most, of the dank. It's better, the high is almost the same and the side effects are wayyy less.
 
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