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Talking to self to help stuttering I’ve been stuttering since I was 11 (I’m 17 now) and it has certainly made my life more difficult. I also picked up the habit of talking to myself when alone a few years ago, purely a coincidence. I find that verbalizing my thoughts helps me to organize them better, and it actually feels good. I also stutter less when I talk to myself, probably because I don’t have an external audience and I feel more relaxed. What I didn’t notice until fairly recently, however, is that my stuttering has improved (though not gone away completely). I feel like talking to myself is in a sense “training” my brain to talk without a stutter? If that makes sense. I think when my brain hears me talk fluently to myself, it’s like, “I can do this!” Like I said, it’s still not 100%, but I notice myself speaking fluently in some situations where I know I wouldn’t have been able to in the past. I hope this helps :)