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Oh gosh, I just saw I forgot to reply to your questions. Sorry about that! Grad school got in the way. Anyway, I don't mind answering your questions publicly. 1.) I think the origin of my anxiety is...

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I'd like to come at this with some humor, in the movie The Big Lebowski, Walter says "if you will it, it is no dream" i love this quote for many reasons, but mostly because it shows the openness of th...

I see where you're coming from, just because you deal with it, doesn't mean it's still not a nuisance and thus, you aren't completely ridden of the negative side effects if it and it still, in your mi...

I can relate 100% and it's terrible. The work situation is devastating. I, like you, act as if I was this socially retarded sociopath. And my co-workers probably think the same. The dream that replays...

The Valsalva technique is fundamentally flawed. The it assumes that moments of stutter are characterized by increased laryngeal muscle activity. But this is not the case. I don't like it. you can se...

The assumptions underlying the Valsalva technique are flawed. It is not good science. It is merely old wine in new bottles. Case in point: The Valsalva maneuver requires increased muscle effort of th...

This is really good information, thank you for sharing. In no way am I telling anyone not to contact Disability Support, I was simply sharing my experiences and point of view. Everyone will need to lo...

Yep he also focuses on relaxing the valsalva mechanism (abdomen and butt) when speaking. He says when we use effort to say a word it causes our larynx to close up and then we get a block. I had 10 ses...

There was this thread on it: http://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/2wcwo7/stutterblocks_pdf/ I know a guy who is working with Bill and he says it's helping him. I think they focus a lot of vowel c...

Has anybody had any luck with Valsalva therapy?

Has anybody had any luck with Valsalva therapy? I've been watching a couple of William Parry videos and learning about the Valsalva Hypothesis. Has anybody heard of this and successfully used the Vals...

I've always had a fairly severe stutter so it's always been open. I've read books, been a member of the NSA for a long time and tried numerous therapies and even i'm still trying to accept it. For som...

8 days later but I still want to share this. I'm also in college and I have registered with my Office for Students with Disabilities, OSD, and it's been a really big help in terms of social anxiety. T...

Pretty much this. Since I entered adulthood, I've begun caring less and less about my stutter. Sure, sometimes when there's a social situation requiring me to speak in front of a group I'll get a litt...

It seems to me that you do not stutter that much if someone who you know a bit does not notice that you stutter :D But as an answer I think no one really accepts it. I can tell friends and adults gla...

My stutter is pretty mild, but I haven't given much thought to it for 10 years or so. I still notice it when I really trip up and repeat a syllable more than twice, but otherwise it's rare that I eve...

Maybe so. I just feel like "acceptance" sounds like this sort of positive and closure-like term. It's not like stuttering is no longer a prevalent overhead, just because I've (purportedly) "accepted" ...

I think so, it is no longer an obstacle or an excuse to stay quiet, rather, my interpretation anyway, it seems to be like every other persons disfluencies. Like op, I usually hide my stutter and so pe...

Hm, I'm not sure I "accept" it. Like, I stutter because I want to speak, but does that mean I'm "open"? I'd rather _not_ stutter, and every time something comes out that's _not_ stuttered, that feels ...

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