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The Good Well, in a true cluttering-y type of way, I’ve already touched on some “good” points under the heading of “bad”. As I’ve already suggested, for many people who clutter the problem is really not something that affects their daily living, and thus is not something of great importance. From my position as a researcher, and clinician, this is juxtaposed with the fact that, from an aetiological/theoretical perspective, cluttering must be one of the most fascinating and difficult of all the speech language disorders. Not only are there both speech and language components to the disorder to consider, but there may be subtle receptive components for some. Yet unlike other recognized disorders where we see such difficulties, cluttering exists without (for the present, at least, any neurological diagnosis!) The Misunderstood Cluttering surely, is all about misunderstanding. We as clutterers are misunderstood, and we often misunderstand the reasons for our being misunderstood. (Why didn’t that person get what I was saying? Perhaps he wasn’t listening…) It has also been suggested that we, as clutterers may have some high-level comprehension difficulties, and that we also misunderstand. Having grasped the wrong end of the stick on one occasion, my wife said to me “When most people imagine pounding hooves, they picture horses. You picture Zebras” She may well be right. But then again those hooves could also belong to Buffalos – or Caribou, or Wildebeest… And of course, at a different level, the disorder is itself, misunderstood. More than anything, we need to arrive at a consensus as to the significance of the different strands of the disorder, and in turn to agree on a definition