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First disinformation is that stuttering is neurological. Saying that is just a cope.. “it’s neurological so there is nothing I can do about it” BULSHIT! You just gave up, that’s what it is. There are amazing lot of snake-oil sellers, absolutely. But there are also really really good methods that can help tremendously. You will never get cured per sey but you can learn how to control the stutter to the point that you don’t stutter. Kind of like alcoholics, they will alway be an alcoholic but they can learn how to control the urge to drink. The biggest issue with stuttering is that it starts as a feet that we won’t be able to express our self and that fear paralyzes us to the point we actually can’t speak. But stuttering quickly becomes a habit. Subconscious ingrained habit. That’s why it’s so hard to control because it’s hard to break the habit even when the original fear is no longer valid. I managed to control my stuttering through A LOT of training on how to breathe properly, how to use the mimic of my face, how to recognize the that free/anxiety and how to relax despite it. And after that A LOT of work on just speaking to my self in front of the mirror to teach my brain that IT CAN say things without stuttering. And then setting the goals for my self. First that I can say hello and good by without stuttering. And it took a lot of concentration and focus in the beginning. But slowly it took less and less effort to say it with out stuttering. Then I I increased the goals to simple sentences. And so on.. It took years of work but today I can speak without stuttering. It does happen from time to time that I do stutter. But then I just take a deep breath, take a second to “center my self” remind my brain I don’t need to stutter and I continue speaking normally. These days only time when my stutter really comes out is when I am under extreme stress. And before anyone tells me it’s bullshit. I used to stutter so badly I couldn’t speak to anyone out side my family. And today at 42 I am a senior supervisor of the reception of the 5-star Luxury hotel. And my job is literally to speak to people all day long, and to train other on proper verbiage. I am still a person who stutters. But you will never know unless I tell you.