commentr/StutterApril 10, 2024

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Hi, you’re not too late ( : So glad you wanna get the recommendations I listed. Some of the key points I took from these courses are basically to not hold your expression back when you speak or act. To learn yourself and the social world so that you understand clearly why you hold back yourself in some areas of your life. Your body harnesses energy, and those energies attach themselves to meaning, and get stored in your body. You just have to channel that energy properly so it doesn’t cause mental blockages. For example, let’s say if you had a panic attack, or even minor anxiety while in a mall, and there was a song playing on the sound system in the background, your brain might try to associate that song with danger. Months down the road that same song might come on in another location, and you’ll start to feel anxious. You might not even remember that anxiety you had in the mall, but your brain does and falsely associates it with the song that was playing, or any type of other stimuli in that environment. You have to be careful to pay attention to these things so your body doesn’t end up storing anxious energy that you don’t know where it’s coming from. Personally, I’m on the Autism spectrum so due to not having the best idea of how others are thinking in social situations, grew up being unsure of what I’m allowed to say. So I’m trying my best to learn emotional intelligence and good communication skills in general so I can be confident I’m not offending anyone, or being ineffective when I speak in social situations. Your body is an entire system and each part can in some way I guess subjectively affect your speech. I’ve had days where I had eaten junk food, or didn’t sleep enough, and my stuttering started flaring up. So understand your body’s health as a whole system. Now the caveat…so I said your body’s health in all areas can subjectively affect your speech. It’s not necessarily that let’s say, a bad nights sleep will objectively cause more stuttering. Sometimes our mind is like a program and if we believe that a bad night’s sleep will cause more stuttering, then sometimes it does simply because your brain will carry out what you believe. So you have to be careful that you aren’t programming your brain to trigger stuttering by strongly carrying ideas about what causes stuttering. You won’t learn this in these books, but there’s a Reditor on here with name of something like little_ancathea. Look for him, he will discuss it. I think I might be being a little bit vague here in my writing, but go searching through these resources and find what you personally are looking for. Be open minded, and study yourself like you yourself are a book. What do you feel is causing you to stutter?

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Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityCoping & AdvocacyIdentity & Disability

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Overthinking & MonitoringStress & Fight/FlightEnergy & Biological RhythmsMindset shiftAuthenticity vs. Masking

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emotional_statephysical_state