and i m out of it. i worked with you last year for pretty much a full year doing documentaries. we travelled, we filmed, we spoke on the phone, a lot. i never knew. i know. i m very good at hiding it and i ve been hiding it, honestly, for as long as i can remember, for as long as i can speak, i think. i learnt very quickly. i think a lot of people do. and i want to appear fluent. and i ve spent so long kind of trying to appear fluent, that i. ijust avoid words and situations, and. i m trying to think of the best way to describe it. and ifeel like quite a good thing is the image of a swan across the lake. and you kind of i know i appear like i m not. i m not stammering now, but underneath the surface is kind of this mad pedalling. you know, i m thinking, as i m speaking to you, i m thinking, you know, how i m going to avoid different. difficult words, difficult sounds. i know the sounds that i find hard to say. and so i don t tend to use them in my vocabulary. i ve learnt over the yea
fell in love with the fact that i could say what i wanted to say without it happening, and it was just. i love it. # ..the rapping s automatic # ain t no lacking or distractions # till my album s wrapped in plastic.# so, when i stutter, i do hand movements like i would if i m holding a mic. so, it s like. i ve actually never thought about that! i do, when i stutter sometimes, itap, and i do, like, little. as if i m rapping, as if it s like. when my girlfriend s at home sometimes, i stutter, she ll see me, like, not, like, making movements, but i might, like, my whole body stutters, and then i finally get out the word. i think sometimes you sort ofjam up your whole brain. if i m having that, ijust, i hit my leg really hard. yeah! what you re tapping is continuing the sentence which your mouth can t, so you re like, go on, go on. and then you finally do it. # if i was born 1,000 years ago, i d be a king # i d be the greatest for my people though named bling # i d find the poorest peasa
don t think it was on purpose. i think ijust subconsciously fell in love with the fact that i could say what i wanted to say without it happening, and it was just. i love it. # the rapping s automatic # ain t no lacking or distractions # till my album s wrapped in plastic. so, when i stutter, i do hand movements like i would if i m holding a mic. so, it s like. i ve actually never thought about that! i do, when i stutter sometimes, itap, and i do, like, little. as if i m rapping, as if it s like. when my girlfriend s at home sometimes, i stutter, she ll see me, like, not, like, making movements, but i might, like, my whole body stutters, and then i finally get out the word. i think sometimes you sort ofjam up your whole brain. if i m having that, ijust, i hit my leg really hard. yeah! laughter what you re tapping is continuing the sentence which your mouth can t, so you re like, go on, go on. and then you finally do it. # if i was born 1,000 years ago, i d be a king # i d be the grea
now on bbc news, producer felicity baker, who has a stammer, reveals what it is like to live with the condition. 0k. i ve worked for bbc news for ten years as a producer, always behind the scenes, finding guests, setting up stories. i wondered if you had someone that might be available for an interview? but recently, during a chance conversation with the presenter sophie raworth, i revealed my secret. i have a stammer. hello. i m calling from the bbc. i ve spent my whole life trying to hide it. now, i m discovering that i m not alone, and i m not the only one who struggles to say my name. and i know you can say your name. will you say it? ican. ijust have to breathe. crowd jeers there s the rugby player
now on bbc news, producer felicity baker, who has a stammer, reveals what it is like to live with the condition. 0k. i ve worked for bbc news for ten years as a producer, always behind the scenes, finding guests, setting up stories. i wondered if you had someone that might be available for an interview? but recently, during a chance conversation with the presenter sophie raworth, i revealed my secret. i have a stammer. hello. i m calling from the bbc. i ve spent my whole life trying to hide it. now, i m discovering that i m not alone, and i m not the only one who struggles to say my name. and i know you can say your name. will you say it? i can. ijust have to breathe. crowd jeers there s the rugby player who says his violence on the pitch was driven by his stammer.