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In my opinion it sounds like you are tense most of the time. Just the idea of speaking gets you so tense that you can’t get a word out even when you are alone. There is no outside tension sitting alon...

Bit of illness, probably a bit of stress being busy at work. But then it’s a vicious cycle. But it’s more I’ve noticed the tension a lot of late in my upper chest...

Hi there! He still has a stutter but the secondary behaviors that got bad for a while have gone away. He had also started covering his mouth, getting aggressive, refusing to talk, etc. We made a lot o...

I try to slowly pronounce the alphabet before every presentation or high pressure speech, and I found articulating every single syllable in a word that is tripping me up helps too! I also caress my ar...

Relieving Tension?

Relieving Tension? Like a lot of people may have, I have more of a covert stammer or interiorised stammer. Working really hard to be fluent and most people won’t really pick up on it aside from some w...

Good read. I am currently experiencing many of the same physical issues you described. I have always thought a visible stutter is better than a covert stutter mainly because you end up developing load...

Try repetition rather than the secondary behaviors.  Try repeating again and again as a kind of reset upon reset.  It may not always work but when it does, your body realizes it doesn't need those sec...

This often happens when people have a real bad block & they’re literally trying to shake it out. Only advice I can give is what’s helped me I currently don’t have any ticks now. The second you notice ...

I will say it is not all the time but sometimes to get block word out I damaged the thing that I was holding in my hand, like twisting it....

face scrunching definitely happens. for me it’s looking away from people while speaking, involuntarily putting my hands in front of my eyes (i guess to subconsciously hide myself from them) and going ...

I sometimes scrunch my face up a bit, too. Usually I blink a lot and look anywhere but the person's eyes...

Secondary behaviours

Secondary behaviours Hi fellow stutterers. I have a pretty severe stutter but what makes it appear worse are my secondary behaviours. It’s usually face scrunching and tongue sticking out which I reall...

In my opinion since i’ve struggled with a stutter my whole life, i can tell you it gets better as you grow up and the more you deal with people the more you know how to handle your stutter. I am not s...

Non-English native stutter

Non-English native stutter Hi everyone, I am not a native English speaker. My English level is B2, I think. I am 40 years old and have had a stutter since I was a child. It runs in my family, from...

Once I was calling the doctors office to make my young kids an appointment, I stuttered so bad the nurse thought I was having a stroke and got 911 on the line with us....

I know this is from 2 years ago but still I wanna throw my two cents in.. I have a severe stutter. It physically hurts. It’s not like a paralyzing feeling or pain but it’s like every muscle in my en...

I wish it was that simple, but there's a lot going on neurologically to result in what we call a block or a repetition which is what you described For instance, the motor systems of the brain not coo...

I’d have to disagree on the “stuttering will never physically hurt you” because my throat aches at the end of each day from straining my vocal cords so much. It definitely has a physical toll....

I actually DO get physical pain for stuttering! I stutter really badly . I almost stomped earlier ....

Yes, I’ve learned this too in speech therapy. Breathing from the diaphragm helps as well to elongate the words. Additionally, I over articulate (or emphasize) some of the words I tend to stutter on of...