Visualizing words in your head as a cure/workaround for stuttering

Visualizing words in your head as a cure/workaround for stuttering I've just found this as an interesting approach to deal with stuttering. I don't know if this is already a thing yet, but here I go. So I'm a stutterer myself, and my stutter is medium in severity. My biggest weakness is improvisation. I'm not good at small talks or class presentations (where I'm not allowed to read from a script). However, whenever I was asked to read a passage out loud or recite a poem, I could do it with almost no stutter at all. I don't know if this is the same with everyone, but for those who have the same type of stutter as I am, here's an interesting solution that I'll be experimenting on. So whenever I would go and make small talk with people, I would visualize words and lines in my head. When I want to say "Hello, how are you?" for example, I'd visualize a giant **HELLO! HOW ARE YOU** in my head, and try to read from it. Remember those 3D Text screensavers back in the Window98 days? That's how I would visualize my words. The trick is, I would have to **read those words out loud instead of speaking the words directly from your head**. In my theory, this does a few things: * Simulates the action of reading from a passage (which is something that some stutterers can do without stuttering) * By focusing on visualizing the words, it might distract you from anxiety attacks that cause the stutter or make the stutter worse * Slows your speech down, giving you more time to stabilize * Visualizing your lines might help you arrange a well-spoken sentence I haven't put this into much practice yet, but I'm calling for fellow stutterers to try this and report the outcome here. It would be an interesting experiment and might work out for a lot of us!