postr/StutterOctober 17, 2022

Frequently using a word on which you stutter will eventually make you fluent on that word.

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Frequently using a word on which you stutter will eventually make you fluent on that word. I used to stutter on words starting with “D” and “w” ( I still stutter on I, H, T, U). A few months ago I started working as a cashier at a retail store. I was instructed by my manager to ask the customers if they have a points card or not. So whenever someone would come to the cash counter I had to ask “Do you collect points with us ?”. It seemed like the most difficult part of the job. For the first month it was really hard, it would literally take me 30 seconds to spit the word “do”. After a month I came up with a trick, I would start muttering that sentence whenever I would see a customer walking to the cash counter and sometimes it would work sometimes not. After almost 2 months, I realized that I stutter a lot less on the word “D” and now after 4 months, its one of the most easiest words for me. So basically, if you use a word very often, after sometime it does become easy for you to say it.

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Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & Variability

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Avoidance & SubstitutionSeverity & Fluctuation

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