Joe Biden In The Debate

There has been a lot of criticism of Joe Biden's performance in the recent debate with Donald Trump. His apparent difficulty in speaking at one point is apparently because of cognitive decline due to age. 

When I watched it I immediately realized what was happening. When Joe Biden was younger he used to suffer from stuttering. Having suffered moderately from it myself I recognized it immediately. All that is happening is that his stutter is returning a little bit. It is nothing major to worry about.

The reason that there is no cure for stuttering is that every case is different. I think it is often caused by poor feedback between the breathing and the speech. In my case I used to be more likely to stutter on words that begin with vowels. Language is almost certainly part of it, some languages are more likely to have stutterers than others.

Stuttering is not really serious. It is no more serious than a person needing glasses. It does not mean that a person is nervous or is in cognitive decline. 

Stutterers almost always try to talk too fast and part of overcoming it is to talk slower. I believe that aerobic fitness helps to overcome stuttering. The less sensitive you are about it the better. I wasn't aware of overcoming it. One day I was in line at a restaurant and noticed that the man in front of me stuttered. I realized then that I didn't stutter anymore, in fact I hadn't thought about it in months. 

But when I watched the video of Joe Biden's supposed cognitive decline, due to difficulty speaking, I recognized it immediately and recall him saying that he suffered from stuttering when young. That's all it is.