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I find when I'm doing presentations, it's the anticipation that gets to me. The days before and moments leading up to it I get anxious, but once I'm up there I don't even think about it. It's weird re...

oh jesus, everyday man. I personally look away, but when I look back and they are staring right at me, I freak out internally...

I'm going to my doctor tomorrow trying to get something for temporary or extreme circumstances. I.e. job interviews, presentations, maybe going to a new place, meeting new people. idk man, I'm just tr...

anti-anxiety medications

anti-anxiety medications hey guys...i was wondering what meds have worked for you and might work for me. my disfluency is a silent block...i seldom have repititions. my silent block ranges from non-ex...

I try to maintain eye contact, but I feel bad about it sometimes -- like, they're continuing to stare at me, waiting for whatever needs to come out. Then again, if I don't keep eye contact and there a...

I barely look people in the eye when I speak to them, feels easier to talk that way because I get more nervous if I look at them and my thought pattern kinda disappears...

I never make eye contact with people. It's really uncommon for me to do so. I'm aware it engages with the listener, but I can't get myself to do so. I believe that if I lose eye contact, they'll also ...

I tend to maintain eye contact, but as soon as I stutter, the other person looks away uncomfortably and then I feel uncomfortable and look away too....

Eye contact during stuttering

Eye contact during stuttering Do you maintain eye contact when you're talking to someone one on one when stuttering (blocks specifically as I consider them the most awkward, but any type is relevant)?...

I had the opposite experience. I was given a very hard time since the cop thought I was nervous or hiding something. I was actually treated very poorly and felt very disrespected ...

I once dated a girl who confessed during our brief relationship that she thought my stutter was "cute". I'm pretty sure she was into "different" kinds of guys. She would always bring it up and stare a...

I feel it burdens me because inside I'm much more sociable. Like, I want to meet people, I want to talk to people. I want to engage random people in conversation. I've spent time with people who can d...

Just because he's doing it doesn't mean he doesn't have anxiety (he may or may not, I just don't know). There's the "riding the lion" principle: A crowd of people is watching a stuntman do a performa...

I've been on live TV two times,and I stuttered once or twics saying my name and some other information - it was stressfull,you guessed it,but nothing more than talking to any other unknown person in y...

I think this is a really important question that I think gets to one of the roots of why so many of us struggle. I've been trying to answer this question for a while now and though im getting closer, ...

I really believe that my stutter is mostly just mental. When I think about it it is so much worse and when I get stuck and think about trying to find a way to get the words out, it is also much harder...

Kind of hard to explain. I would feel nervous in my head trying to go over how I should say what I want. I'd run out of breathe and my first words would be hard to get out. I seen myself as being awkw...

OP I have had days wayyyy down in the dumps because of my stutter. but at the end of the day, it's only you facing it. no one is gonna help you, no one CAN help you, it is a choice you have to make to...

It's all about accepting your speech, once you learn that stuttering is a part of you, you can then work on making it easier to deal with, positivity. What you're doing is basically fueling your stut...

I also hate the phone. I especially hate crappy cell phone connections because not only do they sound choppy, but I sound even more so. And they're asking me to repeat again and again, and ugh, just f...