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Yay.. looks like you’ve found something about your stutter that you can try experimenting with during conversations. This is the first step of awareness … most pws try to run away from their stuttering and not want to think about it. But I’d argue that the first step to overcoming stuttering is to start paying attention to it, and getting to know it intimately. Then you can devise strategies and experiment to see what works and what does not. As an example This is what I found works best for me: when I start stuttering more than I normally do, I try to slow down my speech as if I’m in a slow motion movie. I take longer and deeper breaths, take generous pauses between my words. The more nervous I am the more I slowwwwwwww down. Doing this does wonders in calming me down within few minutes. Once I feel I’m not stuttering as much, I go back to my normal speech.