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What ACTUALLY helped me was... In advance... Please forgive this post for being so long. Like so many on here, I had a speech therapist starting at a young age. She was very smart/educated in her field & tried all the usual things with me ("slow down", "breathe", "think about what you're going to say"). It didn't work. But later in life, I experimented with various other things... other "methods" to slow/prevent stuttering. WORD SWAPPING worked wonders. It reduced the numbers of words I'd fuck up by 80%. That *alone* was able to reduce my stress significantly, so that the other 20% of screw-ups were a little more manageable to me. I think many of us know what weird swapping is. Basically, we think of our sentences ahead of time & identify what word(s) we cannot easily say, and just replace them with words we can say. Sometimes you can't do that - proper names, specific terminology, etc. - and you just have to use the original word. I have problems with L words. So instead of saying "Look at those large ducks", I'd change it to "check out those big ducks"... no L words in there & no stuttering. NAME CHANGE. It's no secret that many of us have problems saying our name. My family always used my middle name. I couldn't say it. Later in life, i started using my first name (which i *could* pronounce just fine) - and it was magical. I could say my own name & had much more confidence. PRACTICING READING ALOUD with either (A) headphones on, where my voice was drastically muffled... Or (B) while playing music loudly, where my voice was basically drown out. Either way, it allowed me to NOT hear my own voice & that made it easier for me to figure out certain things (i.e. tongue placements and the like). In my line of work, I have to record my own voice and that was damn near impossible at first. Lots of "blocks" - couldn't get the words out. I know this sounds weird, but i used HAND MOVEMENT to "push" my words out. I put my right hand finger tips all together (into an O-like shape), and when I start my sentences, I begin with my hand at my chest, and then push it forward (away from me) as if I'm drawing my voice out from my body. Obviously this is not something you would want to do go public, but in private or was helpful to me. There would also be times when I would physically push on my diaphragm when starting a sentence to LITERALLY get the air moving out of me. I still have to do that when I record... when the sentence begins with a challenging letter (L/R/W). PIHONE CALLS... can only say that i just avoided them like the plague whenever possible. Texting and email made life easier. Talking 'in person' was not so bad - mainly bc I could see the person's face & their response to my speech. When I was on the phone, I couldn't see their reaction to my speech & that (for some unknown reason) caused stress/hesitancy and set off my stuttering. Anyway, those things above really helped with my speech. I still have issues sometimes, but it's FAR FAR less after i figured out what worked for "me". Not what the therapist said I should do all those years. But what *I* discovered actually worked for me... which basically was reducing stress in any way possible. What are some things that worked for you? I'm curious. Genuinely want to know.