commentr/StutterFebruary 3, 2021

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The best thing you can do is to treat this as a learning experience, sort of like a stepping stone where you're building and improving your speech based on good and bad experiences. Here are the things that help me during interviews and presentations: * it is very important to keep on speaking over and over for few weeks before I see improvement in my stuttering. Esp when I start looking for a new job, I literally talk to 20-30 recruiters in order to get a sense of what they're looking for in the industry. * I read aloud for 1 hour or more everyday * when driving or working out, I sing out aloud to keep that momentum going * I try to make more and more opportunities to speak to friends, family, or strangers. What's the worst that can happen? * As stutterers, we're hyper-aware of how other people might judge us. If you're from eastern culture, then its probably worse because people discourage you from speaking and constantly judge you. What helped me is to NOT care about what other people think about me or my speech. Treat each speaking engagement as if you're talking to a dog or a cat or a sheep. * If you've had a bad speaking engagement, FORGET ABOUT IT after its done. But if you've a good speaking engagement, run it over and over in your head. This allows your subconscious to see yourself as more fluent. Anyways, these are the things that've helped me. It's not possible to see progress overnight, but if I stick with this over a month, my speech improves significantly..... Good luck

Themes

Anticipation & AvoidanceCoping & AdvocacyIdentity & Disability

Subthemes

Avoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & MonitoringPreparation & RehearsalFluency TechniquesSelf-Advocacy & BoundariesAuthenticity vs. Masking

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perceived_judgmentsocial_pressure