sometimes speaking in a different way would help me. like changing your voice pitch, intonation and speed. apparently, the brain no longer associates your voice with stuttering and voilà you don't stutter! but the effect is really ephemeral and disappears soon. also in school, when i should have learn a poem or sometimes by heart to tell it aloud, i would rewrite it by breaking the syllables down into new words that didn't make sense. so, my whole focus would go into remembering those weird words and i almost never stuttered. my native language (russian) is consonant-heavy, so it would go like this: ljublju otchiznu ja, no strannoj ljubovju => ljub ljuot chiz nuja, nost rannoj ljub ovju