commentr/StutterNovember 17, 2025

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Get Lee’s short book. It’s got tons of useful tips. But the big thing is his philosophy: From years (decades) of stuttering your mind has more reference experiences of stuttering than being fluent. So that’s your identity and that’s why you’ll always feel anxious because your brain expects that it’ll just keep happening. So what he recommends is, you need to get a lot more reference experiences of not stuttering and not blocking in front of people and not feeling the shame and the fear. You do this in a few ways. One is reading aloud every morning so your mind can hear yourself speaking perfectly fluent. Another is using certain tactics in the moment to stop you from having blocks so you build up more good references. Another is visualization exercises so you can envision in your mind fluent experiences even if they never happened they train your brain. It goes against what a lot of other people suggest which is just to accept it and to be yourself and stutter in public . His idea is at the more you do it the more you reinforced that identity. Definitely pick up the book, check out his website, and attend one of his free Saturday virtual meetings.

Themes

Coping & AdvocacyIdentity & Disability

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Fluency TechniquesIdentity & Self-PerceptionAcceptance & Pride