Stuttering could have a significant negative cognitive and affective impact on the person who stutters. When he stutters, he often attempts to say "Poughkeepsie" to stop the stammering. Mak stutters uncontrollably and sneezes in Ah Chai's face. Esther attempts to explain but can't because she stutters uncontrollably when distressed. Gavin stutters sometimes when he talks, which gets worse if he's nervous. It was around this time that Ali started struggling with vocal stutters and trembling hands. Each of these three categories is composed of subgroups of stutters and disfluencies. Mel Tillis stutters when talking but not when singing. The beat "stutters and stops" throughout the track. Douglas Bell played Allen, a writer, hypochondriac and Harvard graduate who often stutters. Auditory Monitoring theories suggest that stutters hear themselves differently from how other people hear them. You hear some stutters and a couple things that are in pop music. Liam stutters badly under stress, and his strict religious education does not help. The animatronic Lincoln's stutters while performing his famous speech on freedom. After hearing this, Ne-Yo stutters, and quickly walks away.