{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 348/1923-01-20/p038","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This should by no means be taken lightly. I once had a friend who at that time was thirty years old, ten years younger than me. He was cross-eyed, but here you have the opposite problem. In flu or diphtheria, a person becomes temporarily cross-eyed because something is internally out of order, but my friend was permanently cross-eyed and, of course, was unhappy about it because not everyone is totally without vanity. There was something in his body that caused his left and right sides to work inharmoniously. This is what caused his crossed eyes; his eyes were crossed, and he also stammered. Both afflictions had the same origin. On some occasions he overcame his crossed eyes and stammer quite well, but there are those who have little compassion for such people and complain about their afflictions. Once, for example, a person who was not too tactful said to my friend, “Tell me, Doctor, do you always stammer, or only occasionally?” The man could barely come out with, “N-n-not always, o-o-only w-when I m-meet a p-person, whom I find t-t-t-totally d-disagreeable!” This same man could recite long poems without stammering, and he didn't stammer when he was full of enthusiasm about something. The stammering is not the point, however; I only mention it because it is connected with this man's crossed eyes.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VI. 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Das war ein und dieselbe Tatsache eigentlich, daß er schielte und stotterte. Manchmal ist er über das Schielen und Stottern ganz gut hinweggekommen. Aber es gibt ja auch Menschen, die nicht viel Mitgefühl haben mit solchen Menschen, die schielen und stottern, und die es ihnen immer vorhalten. Zum Beispiel sagte einmal jemand, der nicht viel Takt hatte, wie man sagt: «Herr Doktor, wie ist es mit Ihrem Stottern, stottern Sie immer oder nur manchmal?» Da,da konnte er kaum herausbringen: «N-n-nicht immer, n-n-n-ur w-wenn ich v-vor einem M-Menschen stehe, der m-mir t-t-total unsympathisch ist!»","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":211,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/348/1923-01-20/p039"},{"locus":"GA 348/1923-01-20/p040","passage_number":40,"text":"Nun, sehen Sie, derselbe Mann konnte lange Gedichte vorlesen, ohne zu stottern. Wenn er also in innerlicher seelischer Begeisterung war, brauchte er nicht zu stottern. Aber ich will jetzt weniger von seinem Stottern reden, ich habe es nur erwähnt, weil es mit dem Schielen zusammenhängt. Er schielte, war also ein klein bißchen eitel und wollte das Schielen wegbringen. Nun wissen Sie ja, daß da Operationen ausgeführt werden, und daß also einfach, wenn die Augen so stehen (schielend), da ein Muskel durchschnitten wird. 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