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More on cluttering, defined.................................

...............cluttering, an until recently, unacknowledged is a communication disorder, the condition makes the process of speaking very difficult for sufferers, it is very difficult to start a conversation and aslo to keep a conversation going, the mere thought of talking to people can physically cause stress making the effort even harder.

To a person without any communication problem it is normally very easy to talk to someone, you open your mouth and words come out and you say what you want to say, with a clutterer it is very different, the thought patterns, the phrasing patterns, the speech projection are all flawed.

Most clutterers have to plan what they want to say, but even after careful planning they may still fail to "deliver the goods" they still have difficulty in expressing themselves and the speech they planned hard to project has been expressed in maybe some different context, and quite often the context of the sentence can be misunderstood and sound misconstrued.

To initiate a conversation for many clutterers, they have to "attach" their conversation to something, that is, they have to have a common ground of interest in something for them to be able to speak as though it is normal.

The condition has similar traits and symptoms to ADD and I suppose many ADD sufferers also have cluttering like symptoms.

Cluttering affects everything a person does, speaking, reading, writing, thoughts, working, communication and it is sometimes perceived that clutterers have a low IQ; well in fact many clutterers have a far higher intelligence than some people without any of the above problems.

Where are we going from here? well for years now, cluttering has not been properly diagnosed, understood or recognised, many people including children need the help of a specialist in their field, and the specialist in most communication problems is the speech and language therapist/pathologist, however many have not been trained sufficiently to recognise the problem, if they have they do not readily make any firm guidelines as far as the correct treatment, the treatment they do issue is normally that of which is supplied to stammerers/stutterers.

Stammering/stuttering therapy, can, in some cases help the clutterer, but obviously mainly in their speech, there is no hard an fast therapy to address the other "communication" problems.