What do Demosthenes, President Biden, Ed Sheeran and I have in common? A stutter. We are a select bunch: about one in every hundred. Although nowadays I rarely stutter, like an evil gremlin it still lurks in the background, ready to ambush me when I am tired or stressed.
Stuttering is now understood to be a neurological condition, meaning that the wires in the speech-related parts of the brain are not connected quite correctly. It is not because of a psychological flaw or a
