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When I speak I see in peoples eyes and how they change, it’s not nice but that’s what anxiety leading into hyper mental detail does ig lol...

Sitting in crazy uncomfortable positions, that one made me laugh because it's exactly how I find myself. It's like when the panic kicks in everything else just gets blurry. Now I even started with thi...

Heart palpitations and what I'd do about it.

Heart palpitations and what I'd do about it. When you're about to have to say something when you feel you won't be able to, you'll likely feel hella heart palpitations. Big heartbeats that also wi...

I would really recommend the McGuire Program! And reading Redefining Stuttering by John Harrison. There’s a free link to the book if you google search it. Your head jerk is a “trick” to get words out...

Yes, secondary behaviors are common. I’m in my 30s and have cycled through many types. I still tilt my head, close my eyes, or even move my leg a certain way. It’s a constant aspect of control and rel...

I'm 21 so not quite your age, but close enough I guess! First of all I really feel you there with having people say "hello, hello?" on the phone, etc. It's always a pain. Regarding the head jerking t...

Any other stutterers experience this?

Any other stutterers experience this? So, 29M here, stuttering for as long as I can remember, but I have good days and bad days so my stutter ranges from mild to severe. That being said, I seem to suf...

Yes same... I hate it. I even like, get tics when I watch myself or others with a stutter talk. very weird!...

My speech therapist taught me to say my name on an exhale and to lengthen the first syllable. So if I feel like I may block I exhale and says “llllllisa”...

I'm similar, and this also happens with my head tics. But the thing is, they only really happen when I'm around strangers. Around family and friends, you'd barely notice that I have a stutter and tics...

Thanks for your insight! I should’ve stated that I am not trying to hide my stutter nor am I ashamed of it. I just really hate the way blocks feel (I have a hernia in my chest from GI issues and bad b...

This 100%. Like your vocal cords close and prevent you from uttering a sound. Like paralysis sometimes. Your mouth, jaw, throat, etc. just freezes. After that you have to take a breath and retry, pray...

For me the physical feeling is like a clenching in my throat and face muscles as well. I get more out of breath, so I can feel my heart beating faster sometimes. My tongue can feel heavy or useless as...

When someone asks me what stuttering feels like, I tell them to try to swallow 5 times in a row because thats almost what stuttering feels like...

Someone here could probably explain it better but it’s just such a weird feeling that you kind of have to experience often to understand...

I'm copying this for my comment I made about 10 days ago. Start your exhale before you start making any sounds. The G sound requires your tongue to kind of come up and back (sort of.) Hit that G so...

As a fellow stutter, I also speak way too much... I was way too bubbly for my own good. If I was to travel back in time and was only allowed to tell my younger self one thing, it would be to shut up a...

I have a neurogenic stutter (acquired brain injury) and suffer the same facial contortions. The way it was explained to me was the message is being sent from the brain to the vocal muscles but the sig...

Yea, I think it's mostly because I see my own face in video calls/work meetings. It's just like a hit to my ego seeing myself struggle so much to string together an elementary sentence. Whereas other ...

Thanks for the comment, I meant the physical/visual aspect of blocking. It looks like I'm having a stroke or something sometimes. My tongue thrashes around and I'm gasping for air to get the word out....