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Yes, you're right. In my opinion is because when you wear a mask it's harder for people to understand you because they can't see your lips. When you realise that, subconsciously your brain makes you s...

Yes definitely! I think personally it's the fact that masks make it a little bit harder to breathe and that really messes up my fluency...

Good exercise as you see that rejection doesn’t hurt as bad as you expect it to. You then start becoming desensitized to it and you start speaking with less tension which decreases the stutter. Very...

Almost got fired

Almost got fired Almost got fired from my job because someone accused me to my manager of being drunk cause I was stuttering and having a hard time pronouncing things...

Forcing and pushing are the same thing. I agree getting on the sound is what we should all v doing, but trying to push which creates tension is a tricky road when tension causes so much of our problem...

I hit anything near to me. Like a table or a wall when I stutter. And few days back a colleague of mine saw me stutter and hit the table for the first time. I think he had pity in his eyes or maybe su...

I mean it didn't work for me either because I get too nervous and breathless so this doesn't really work out for me. But i think some might actually benefit from it....

Also avoiding eye contact, ticks, tapping with hands or fingers, constantly finding synonyms or other ways to describe what I want to say, changing word order (sounds like Yoda) just to name a few....

Yeah I have a secondary movement of touching my face. I mostly control except when I'm really having a bad time stuttering....

That is your “secondary” it’s what you do to help you get through your block. Everyone’s are different....

For me it’s the force smacking my side to get words out. Working in a mask which further debilitates breathing only makes it worse and makes me look weird at my new job...

I actually roll my eyes back ugh. So to not look like a crazy person I taught myself to close my eyes when stuttering. It still looks weird but better....

It's not so much the stuttering that bothers me, but the blinking.

It's not so much the stuttering that bothers me, but the blinking. So much blinking. I can't even watch myself on camera without fixating on how much I blink....

Yea, those avoidance tricks are difficult to change. Like at one point when I would stutter, my right arm would move upwards. But then I just thought, “you know what, the next time I block I’m not mov...

Yeah, when you're blocking and nothing is working, you'll try anything and one thing that can happen is an inhalation and it becomes very easily ingrained....

Yea, I’ve never really heard of somebody breathing like this as an avoidance, but I know that sometimes people that stutter can panic and rush themselves, which can cause erratic breathing....

I wasn't sure exactly what he meant, but yes I am talking about using an inhale to say a blocked sound. It's an avoidance behavior people develop and it is very disruptive to speech and difficult to g...

You do not want to use inhalations to get through blocks. This is one of the most difficult avoidance behaviors to get rid of once it becomes learned and it will leave you with very weird sounding spe...

Yes, what I have found is that stuttering really comes down to tension in the body. Anxiety can be a big reason for that. What are you doing now to work on this?...

Do you have tremor or shaking hands?

Do you have tremor or shaking hands? I have recently realized I've had shaking hands since I was little. I've had received countless comments that my hands are shaking - for example when counting mone...