Comments | kazaera: I should probably just build that bloody fort and stop poking at this, yes

kazaera

I should probably just build that bloody fort and stop poking at this, yes

Jan 05, 2011 15:24

Okay, in my worries about The King's Speech? This is the kind of thing I am talking about.

(Transcript starts at 1:12 and is up to 1:47 because even in good video times I don't have that many spoons, okay.)

Tom Hooper, director of the King's Speech, talking about the way the stutter's presented: "...although the causes are psychological, it's ( Read more... )

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elenbarathi January 5 2011, 17:06:40 UTC

Woah, what a huge load of crap! Give me a break; it's been established for over fifty years that the majority of stuttering is neurogenic, not psychological. And what is this stupid little false analogy, of stuttering being a version of "that block that sits between you and your best self"? Might as well tell left-handed people that being left-handed is a "block"!
(Actually, they used to do that a lot, and thus found out how to make left-handed kids into right-handed stutterers.)

The problem with pillow forts is that they don't have any trebuchets.

aiffe January 5 2011, 23:20:08 UTC

I've noticed quite a bit of this--"inspirational" stories about disabled people, designed to inspire not other disabled people, but people without disabilities. It's the feel-good story, you know, this person had both feet amputated, and still had the determination to become an Olympic runner! Boy, that sure makes you feel like a lazy pile of crap, doesn't it? Here you are, with both your feet, and I bet you hardly even use them.

It's kind of, "If a person with [disability] can do [thing made difficult by disability], then YOU can overcome [more mundane problem] in your own life!"

I can understand the appeal of stories of overcoming obstacles. That's what pretty much every story is about, in some form. But this particular mutation seems to be using the stories of disabled people to make abled people feel like they can be better. That's probably why it "works better" thematically to have the stuttering be psychological, in spite of a mountain of evidence that it's physiological. It's a metaphor for non-disability problems, many of ( ... )