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I used to stutter much more severely than I do now. A couple years of therapy, Toastmasters, and a general increase in self confidence later, I am doing much better. A comment on your point regarding the technique for saying your name. I think you will ultimately “learn” to stutter on these phrases as well. I don’t have a reference here, but will look for one. It’s still the situation of answering the question “what is your name” that increases the anxiety and tension in your body. Techniques we worked on in therapy to anticipate and control the anxiety of that kind of situation included getting yourself in those situations. Making random phone calls to ask “when do you close” or wandering a department store asking “what time is it”. We did this in safe situations with my therapist right there. The thing that really helped was purposely having a stutter (block, repetition, etc) and using the techniques for easing into speaking in a real situation. The main thing to focus on there was the recognition you were (purposely) stuttering, stopping speaking to collect yourself, and restarting the question/statement. Doing all this in a controlled manner vs a anxiety driven/random situation. All that to say was to practice the techniques to control the anxiety and fluent speech such that you could say you name, ask for what you want at a restaurant, etc.