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Buddy, I know this feel. I'm in 3rd year of my B.E. & in 5 days there's a presentation & I know, I will suck because of these fucking blocks. My stutter before age of 16 was mostly of repetit...
Mental Imagery & Stuttering
Mental Imagery & Stuttering Over the course of a few years I've noticed some mental imagery going on when I'm stuttering or about to stutter. First image when I'm about to stutter on a word is s...
I think I have acquired stuttering. I was very fluent up til the age of 8-9. I acquired it around 4th grade, gradually increased in severity, until it became noticeable. I have two self derived theori...
Some early researchers called stuttering what you do to avoid stuttering. I think OP has an overall point, however. At it's base, stuttering is just the disruption of speech. There is a reaction to th...
Note: Imagined words may be deceiving in their appearance. They aren't performed, so you don't know if they would actually manifest in the desired fashion. Or in short, speech doesn't amount to "form...
This is such a great story for me to read. I recently slightly changed career paths (was working for an ad agency but pivoted to work on the ad sales side). This requires me to present to big ad agenc...
A story about a story I heard about a "mind blowing" stutterer...
A story about a story I heard about a "mind blowing" stutterer... So, I study graphic design at university and some of us got the chance to go to a well renowned design firm and hear professionals tal...
same here. it's strange, isn't it? >Could it be because I'm so focused on "winning" the debate and I know if I stutter it will lessen those chances, so I don't?? this is a good analysis. i was th...
My theory is that debating, especially formally, follows certain formats that make most everything you say pretty predictable in terms of rhetorical function and segregated from real feeling. Similar...
Are you in our Discord? Because there's someone in our Discord who's like that too, with arguing specifically. We all have our little quirks and magical situational fluencies. It's probably good for...
Sometimes it's because you know exactly what you want to say in those situations. You have to think quicker so your mind's initial thought matches what you try to say. Or it could be that the willingn...
I've been thinking of DM'ing a D&D game for my friends aswell. I love to worldbuild and would be able to write out an entire universe if necessary, however i am doubting my ability to convey my st...
It;s an established fact that people who stutter are more likely to stutter on longer words and words that have high "propositionalilty" (e.g., more meaning, ergo more specificity). You're battling tw...
I wish it were that simple, I actually find knowing exactly what I am going to say before hand makes it worse. It's a very complex problem which manifests itself differently for everyone. Stay str...
The talk itself was nice, I'm not refuting that. But if you want more depth than the surface ideas presented you really should look into the author and the research she has done. I say "surface idea...
But we're talking about stutter here. It changes these things, wouldn't you say?...
Are you sure this sort of tip can be generalized into all contexts - especially stutter?...
When I am talking myself I rarely stutter. I also talk to myself ALOT because when I was younger I was bothered by silence whenever I was alone so I decided to fill it with my thoughts. This habit ha...
When you're talking to others, you're *communicating*, in addition to just speaking.   When you talk to yourself, you already know your message well in advance - it was already in your hea...
With stuttering, it’s very hard to tell jokes or stories because blocks can kill the momentum. This can be very frustrating with it happening repeatedly. I experience this when I’m in class and want t...