Say, can you sing? Make funny noises? Roar? I mean, it's not like oral expression is only about making "perfect" sentences. :) - Also, a stutter isn't gone just because you don't use the mode of communication it affects. Rather, that's a part of the stuttering condition: To try to escape that mode of communication. Thus, the stutter is still there... if you let it "beat you". But a stutter is just a thing that some people have, so there's no reason why you should let it beat you. - Like, I have a bad back, but I still walk around and do stuff. I suggest it's the same with stuttering. Sure, we stutter, but that doesn't stop us from communication. It just makes it a bit different from the usually expected performance. --- ##Moved comments: --- The analogy obviously wasn't meant as a perfect translation to stuttering. ;) I'm sure you can imagine all sorts of things that can be embarrassing for the one it's happening to. It's besides the point that they aren't matching up perfectly to stuttering, because the point is just that stuttering is another one of those things. Those things that some people have. Some people have many such things, others have few. It's just not constructive to us - as stutterers - to make of this one thing something _absolutely critical to all of our life_. This is simply not true. We have modes of expression and function in general available that have nothing to do with stuttering at all. - Note that I'm not trying to undermine your struggle. I'm just trying to frame it such that you might be better able to deal with it. Making of it this monumental, singular *barrier* to a nice life is very much about our mindset. And the mindset is something we _can_ deal with. That's what I hope places such like this are able to show. We're not alone, and we're not completely broken. So don't feel like that. :) --- - --- > books like The power Is that the new age/pseudoscience thing? Please don't waste your time on stuff like that. You could be reading things to help you directly with stuttering instead. Better yet, visit a speech therapist! :) Don't focus on fluency. Focus on managing your stutter. Maintenance is important! --- - --- It's very abstract to compare my general observations to a book known for its new age bollox content, so I don't think we need to do that. :) Also, the point of being able to do something else with the mouth sounds isn't that "it's all good after all, see?". The point is that we are not _only_ stutterers. If you ride your bike, you're not stuttering. In the same way, if you're singing, you're not stuttering. If you're sounding out a pondering sound or a yes/no (without speech articulation), you're not stuttering. - Speech therapy is a way forward. You're going there to get help figuring out how to stutter. If you don't want this help... I don't know what to tell you. Perhaps I could say you're being unreasonable. Or that you were being self-destructive. Or that you were afraid, or stubborn, or ignorant. Perhaps it's easier just to say that you should go get the help you deserve. :) --- - --- Okay, so you don't want professional help. I'm sad to hear that. But I hope you find something that works for you anyway.