A MYTH --- OR THE TRUTH???

Hello:

On page 39 of Elaine Kelman's book called, --- Understanding Stammering or Stuttering the following words appear:

Myth # 4 --- Stuttering is caused by an event.

Some children and their parents say that they recall an event --- a family row or the birth of a sibling --- that happened around the time when the stuttering began.

However, such events occur in the lives of all children, and only a minority of children stammer.  In some cases an event may have been the trigger rather than the cause of the stutter in a child whose speech was already vulnerable.  It is more likely that the timing of the event was purely incidental.

My answer:    

It is more likely that the author's lack of knowledge about how the emotion of fear can influence human behavior, especially when it comes to fluent speech, is purely incidental.

You can play with words if you want to but in my world being the trigger and being part of the cause amounts to the very same thing.   And where did you [the author] get the notion that everyone must react the same way to a traumatic event?  

Let's look at King George's older brother.  He was subjected to the same kind of parental abuse as his younger brother.   But he did not have a nanny that  intrinsically added to his level of stress.  

His older brother David, made a decision, conscious or otherwise, not to show his fear in his voice.   He hid it inside until his father's death prevented him from avoiding the truth any longer.  He then opted to marry the twice divorced Mrs. Simpson.

Subsequently, his forced abdication, and his profoundly expressed love for Mrs. Simpson allowed him to abdicate and never let it come to the surface that he was terrified of becoming the King with all the responsibilities involved.

I will readily admit that in some cases we cannot fathom the extent of the deflection in human behavior that the emotion of fear can cause to happen.  

But that is not an excuse to decide that unless every person who experiences some kind of stress does not act the very same way, --- [in this case become a stutterer] --- that stress itself can not be the deciding factor in such behavior..