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Like I said, I just stopped caring all together, whenever I want to talk or say a word that I feel I'll stutter on, I say it anyway but syllable by syllable, the perfect example is on the phone, I say "H-EH-LO, how R U mum?" making sure my lips and teeth participate and if my jaw locks up I push my tongue to the front of my palette and say it, After the call I don't reflect on how poor I sound I just include the difficult word to be practiced at odd times of the day, my difficult word was anything "ei" sounding, like eight, date, faith, that sound was always difficult to say, started noticing my lips were not primed to speak it, was bullied a lot by people trying to make me say those words but I said them anyway and even had people try to call to hear me stutter, I'd get angry, but use the anger to coordinate my speech and talk syllable by syllable. I don't know if you experience this but when always tensed up like I was anxious most of the time, so I kept telling myself I have no reason to fear, instead I have authority to speak or I deserve to speak, mentally picturing the other person as a kid or something I can speak to without stuttering. If I'm all over the place, it's because I tried a lot of things before this.