Then we return to Clay stammering: “I thought you wanted one? No?”

As a child he was not really aware of his own stammering - sometimes also called stuttering - but it was getting noticed by adults.

“It’s not...not. Nothing,” I said, stammering on my words like a stalling engine.

While “Life on Delay” focuses on Hendrickson’s stammering life, this memoir astutely illuminates the complexity of disfluency more broadly.

Let’s not forget how badly the defense fumbled Kelsey’s stammering appearance in court, where she denied everything she’d told prosecutors in September, claiming instead that she “couldn’t remember” even after being granted use immunity.