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My strategy, which comes directly from SLPs who also used to have disabling stutters, reduced my blocking and avoidances about 95% and I sometimes completely forget that I’m a PWS. There are the steps. You can start right now and probably see results almost immediately. 1. Disclose and/or do brief voluntary repetitions as often as possible - in mirror, on phone, on video chat,in person, to yourself 2. make normal eye contact 3. begin slowly and on an *exhale* 4. enunciate (speak clearly and with a regular, interesting intonation and cadence. Speeding up signals to your brain that you are scared and ashamed, and makes it easier to stumble on your words. People with disabling blocks do the opppsite of all those above things bc you are embarrassed that ppl will hear your repetitions (avoiding eye contact and try to speed everything up). A block happens bc you are trying to fight through the repetition…