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sweet tunes bro, i also like to listen to a lot of electronic music like chill-step. unfortunately it doesn't take away from my anxiety and i still end up stuttering when the headphones are off. ...

We all go through good periods and bad. These can range from weeks to months or longer. There's just a lot of ups and downs. I would recommend going to see a speech pathologist if you haven't. A lot o...

how old is he? one note of clarification, people do not stutter because of anxiety. Anxiety can exacerbate stuttering but it does not cause stuttering. So, it's not necessarily anxiety that is causin...

I think you're over analyzing. If I were to humor your theory I'd be guessing he'd be anxious about the gifts he'd receive, and he wants to be on his best behavior....

Timing of stutter/blocking and fluency

Timing of stutter/blocking and fluency My son has a stutter which is mostly blocking and some physical tics. The physical tics tend to precede his periods of dysfluency. Now his periods of fluency and...

Yes yes! Very similar, Love it!...

I've bottled up a lot of my issues too. I still can't verbalize how I feel about my stuttering and how it's affected me. I can only do it in writing. Once I started writing a post or two, it definitel...

I agree - reflection and self-understanding is essential, and its a practice. I'm just not personally used to it as I have tended to bottle up my issues, and I'm just not used to prodding around insid...

Thank you for your reply, I am quite tempted to go for speech therapy, especially if, as you say, the emphasis is on the social, mental and latent aspects, as this is certainly where I need the help. ...

> Do you think speech therapy would be beneficial? I revisited speech therapy this year as a working adult. It helped me understand my stutter and anxieties. It helped me look at my stuttering lik...

I so know what you mean about the wave of fluency. Its how I get through the majority of sentences. However, it's been so ingrained into me that this no longer works with my surname... The same goes f...

Word substitution is a very common trait that people who stutter have. In fact, we spend a LOT of effort (physical/mental) on trying to hide our stutter and word substitution and avoiding situations i...

I've had a stammer/stutter my entire life and my name has always been one of the worst things to have to respond to. Not sure why but it is quite awkward and annoying when people say "Haha did you for...

Need help with my unusual stutter

Need help with my unusual stutter Hi Reddit, I have had a stutter ever since I was a little child and thankfully it has all but passed now. In fact I can usually speak perfectly fluently and eloquentl...

James Earl Jones: from stutterer to star

James Earl Jones: from stutterer to star ...

That's normal for me as well. I get annoyed when I'm stuttering in front of friends because I am *supposed* to be more comfortable around them. But then again, they don't mind as much, so it's not som...

I think it's good you've come here for support. If you talk to enough people here online, they'll tell you about many other techniques and strategies we've used to cope. Suicide is definitely not the ...

getting off your ass is the first step towards getting to where you want to be. It might be worth the trip to the BSA conference, though i dont know about it. the UK does have pretty good resources th...