commentr/StutterJuly 8, 2024

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I feel this so bad. The main thing I stutter on is my name and it is such a defeating feeling having someone say “you forgot your name?” 🙄🙄🙄🙄 Spare me! One thing that helps me is visualizing my name spelled differently. Stick with me cuz this is kinda odd: Like if my name is Britney, I visualize it as “Buh Rhit Knee” and pronounce it that way. I don’t tend to stutter on nonsense words or phrases as there’s no pressure to make sense to a listener. I’m simply recreating a word in parts that have less meaning and therefore less pressure when I say them to people. In essence I feel like I am talking to myself. I am pronouncing the word parts in my mind in a way that others hear as fluency. So turning my name into a nonsense word has really taken the pressure off saying my name and placing it on my just reciting 3 random parts “Buh Rhit Knee”. The phrase means nothing to me so there’s far less pressure of me stuttering on my name because “Buh Rhit Knee” is not my name and that’s what I visualize and pronounce as my answer. Lol, I don’t know if that makes sense at all but it really has helped so much. Like instead of saying “October”, in my mind I am pronouncing the words “Awk Toe Brr”. I won’t stutter on those words because nobody knows what that is and therefore I can’t really get it wrong. But as the listener, they simply hear “October”.

Themes

Anticipation & Avoidance

Subthemes

Feared Words & NamesAvoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & Monitoring