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I thought I was the only one that goes through this pain. Tried breathing techniques, but when it's my turn to make an order I just lose it. Some times when you ask a friend to order for you or talk t...

Anyone got any tips or tricks for ordering at cafes or restaurants?

Anyone got any tips or tricks for ordering at cafes or restaurants? The place I have the most trouble with my speech is ordering at the counter of restaurants, cafes or fast food places. I tend to get...

My speech is very disjointed and besides stuttering and trying to hide it with umms like the other post here said, I cannot visualise/compose what I'm wanting to say and all my words come out and do n...

You can create this situation for yourself, no need to wait for someone to call you - call local businesses or stores and ask for prices of items or store hours or reccomendations ...

I used to do this practice too, but mostly for my social anxiety. I used to act interested, talk, listen and after a while lose fake interest and hang up. Free practice once or twice a month or so. ...

Same - I forget names so bad as well! Even names I'm very familiar with of friends I've know for years will sometimes just disappear into thin air...

Yes, that's one of the main causes of anxiety. I'm anxious cause i want to speak fluently and say what i want to say nicely, and i'm afraid of possible blocks. It's a mind-block that it's pretty hard ...

I consider my stutter mild, but it's more than enough to bother me. On a scale of 1-10 it would probably be around 3-4 on a normal day. Many people don't even know i stutter cause i've become very go...

I've started to use the speech to text function to send texts. It's pretty good because it doesn't record the uhhssss and ums....

How to speak more even though you stutter - Stuttering Habits

How to speak more even though you stutter - Stuttering Habits ...

Yeah, thats what stuttering can be like. In order to desperately maintain fluency, you substitute words or use circumlocution. Btw I have stutter since 15....

So my last job was working in customer service for an electronic company. I remember a specific call where I had to tell them to contact an electrician. I could say "you would need to contact a.e.. e....

Perhaps the first time he struggled with the word "truck" he reapproached it by repeating "fire" and it worked, and then in subsequent scenarios he still expected to have trouble with it, so it gradua...

Seem to have recently developer a stutter? 34 YO/Male looking for advice/comments.

Seem to have recently developer a stutter? 34 YO/Male looking for advice/comments. Hello, Just reaching out here to see if anyone has had a similar experience or any general advice anyone could offer...

Yeah, it's stalling according to John Harrison as he described it in his book Redefining Stuttering. You have a mental block on the word 'truck' or the 't' sound and therefore you keep repeating the w...

Yes, I don't stutter when reading out loud at all. I also notice something else extremely infuriating. Sometimes I try to use this loophole to avoid stuttering when I make a phone call to order somet...

I learnt that if I already know what I am gonna say, I would stammer a lot when I say it. So I don't prepare any speeches for interviews or conversations. Everything I say is spontaneous and that's ho...

When I was in elementary and junior high, I had this happen too. Then I went to a new high school and went deep into a depressive, anxiety-ridden state. Since then, asking to read aloud causes me to s...

IANAL, but I'm an SLP who has had many many lawyers as clients. All specialties, everything from in-house paper-pushing to litigation. Switching words (for those who rely on that) is not really an op...

How did you do this and any tips/advice for me? I am usually calm and know when to control my emotions but in some moments like interviews or ordering food when I'm under pressure like a time constrai...