Weird 'altruism' thought+advice from a man who has nearly overcome stuttering!
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Weird 'altruism' thought+advice from a man who has nearly overcome stuttering! I am holding a weird altruism(or else) thought recently that it would be the best that there was only me stuttering and the others did not.. because I prefer to suffer on my own and if there was only one stuttering, stuttering would not be a legitimate pathological concept because this could not describe a specific group who suffering from this anymore... Alright maybe it is not altruism but still egoism lol. And yeah I'd say I NEARLY overcome stuttering but the reason why I put 'NEARLY' here is that I don't want to guarantee anything competely to make sure I am posting with enough responsibilities and validities. What I may be different from other overcomers is that I did not go through a lot but I do know what stuttering means to stutterers. It is as if a bird died in your throat when you are talking. So here is my straregy on how to overcome stuttering(but I prefer to use 'co-exist' here because overcoming stuttering imo and in other studies' perspectives is not a good goal for stutterers. I use 'overcome' here just to let you know my situations have been improved nearly perfectly): I found out when I didn't care about my stuttering(if to put it with professional termology, I think it should be 'desensitzation'), my stuttering was nearly gone and I could talk nearly as a normal speaker at least no one could recognize me as a PWS, so I figured out my stuttering was very psychologically dominated with very little neurological component(you have to know stuttering is both psychological and neurological), so after comparisons, I gave up fighting against it and turned to restore me to me back then. These days I am already trying to avoid repeating sounds that I anticipate to stutter on in my mind which is a means of fighting against my own stuttering for example, but I don't know if I have OCD or else, I just have to work hardly to stop it and it is still sabotaging me although I know it is pointless and harmful because it runs contrary to what I should be aimed for! If everything really went badly I would get a cognitive therapy to get rid of this toxic habit. I am also conducting 'stuttering modification' and 'exposure therapy' as well as 'desensitization', like either when I am really stuttering or just representing natural dysfluency, I stop bursting out pertinent anxieties and fears as well as secondary behaviours like turning my head to somewhere else, waving hand, etc. at first response, instead, just keep talking, and just let others listen to how I am talking, instead of 'glossing over' my dysfluency. Plus, you can see my experience of speech therapy in my previous post, but I can tell you this is really just a waste of time and money in my case but the therapist did not analyze properly the components of my stuttering which nearly 100% consist of psychology instead of neurology so it's way better to pay more emphasis on cognitive therapy for me than speech techniques. I also suggest especially if you can't afford for therapies, you gotta try analyzing the components of yout stuttering yourself! If your stuttering is psychologically dominated, it is better to pay more emphasises on cognitive therapy than techniques and if it is neurologically dominated than more on techniques. Here is a good collection of cognitive therapy tools: [https://www.healthline.com/health/cbt-techniques](https://www.healthline.com/health/cbt-techniques)