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Observations about my Stutter First post in this sub and I wanted to get this out there in case anyone has a similar form of stutter, and if there are ways you have corrected it or any kind of insight I may not have thought of. I'm 33 and my stutter began in the third or fourth grade. I had a rough home life and the trigger I believe, was my sentences getting cut off by getting yelled at. So a part of my brain began to not believe I'd even get to finish my sentences or to overanalyze my tone or word choice to try to not incite my parents to explode on me. Fast forward to today and my stutter manifests in the form of speech blocks, and my jaw unable to move smoothly, it becomes so tense that I have two modes, either my jaw is open or its closed, no smoothness. What has helped me is my stutter is not as apparent just after a hard workout. Vitamin B1 in the short term cures me, but causes me to be very airheaded and dumb, and no longer works after week or two of use. A close friend recently brought up to me that my stutter is almost not there when I'm awake and alert, but as I get more tired, my stutter gets progressively worse. I found this observation interesting. Maybe the act of modulating my speech requires so much effort that after a certain level of fatigue I just can't do it anymore. I work as a senior accountant right now and I really need to make the jump to manager and I know to be a person on the front line I need to find a way to handle my speech impediment. If anyone relates, what has helped you? I think part of the key to this is allowing my jaw to move smoothly so that I can formulate words normally. I need to figure out a quick fix I can use to delock my jaw mid-work day, I can't always go off and meditate if I'm in the office.