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Yup. It helps me release the words out. One of my earliest memories as a 5 year old child back in 2000 was me jumping in order to say a word....

i trained myself to break eye contact gently, still facing them but looking slightly to the side. I'll also switch my secondaries often: a gentle finger tap, saying "uhh" or "um", a gentle head nod, o...

i’m not really sure to be honest, i don’t really remember how i did i was getting therapy at the time i started to notice it, and i remember my therapist saying you have to be mindful of it when it h...

Have there been any confirmed ways to "get out" of secondary behaviors? I feel like I cant even control it when I do it...

I roll my eyes also, on a particularly bad block i always look up and right for some reason...

I feel like what helped me most was not caring about how I looked and ignoring this need I had within telling me that I had to always speak well. Also speaking in front of a mirror daily helped a lot ...

ooh yes definitely i used to raise my head or my arms when i was blocking severely, but it’s best to try and get out of habits like that...

I had a habit of rolling my eyes up when having a block and it scared alot of people lol. I do it sometimes but way less commonly. I do start tapping my legs and fingers everytime i stutter, it helps ...

that's called a "secondary behaviour". most of us stutterers have them and it's completely normal....

Is it normal to move while stuttering?

Is it normal to move while stuttering? I know it sounds weird if I'm the only one who does this but whenever I'm stuttering badly or sometimes even a bit, I move a lot and it becomes very noticable. T...

I realize my stutter is not forward moving....

I realize my stutter is not forward moving.... I have blocks and I linger on one word long over drawn pauses before I say it out. It’s anything because it takes for even to get my thoughts out and whe...

Hm I can see how that could be a problem, maybe if you were bigger masks that aren’t too tight or face shields? It might help...

Yea it helps me for the most part, but sometimes it makes me more anxious if I have to go to places where I have to were a lot of PPE (plus two masks,shield, etc) cause it feels like I can’t breathe a...

I think that the restriction of jaw because of masks' straps aggravates my stutter....

I’ve actually been consciously working on keeping eye contact. If found that I do stutter a bit less....

My impulse, which I try to avoid but fail to do so in most situations, is to look away or around. However my speech therapist told me to try and hold their eyes when a blocking comes, because in my ca...

Reading aloud is still (and perhaps will ALWAYS) be something I cannot do fluently at all. But, I did teach pre-K for a few years and found over animation or over annunciation/inflection helped a lot....

Every time I get stuck my fiancée reaches out and touches me with her hand. The feeling of her hand on me instantly calms me and I continue fluidly....

I block at vowels and repeat b’s and p’s and th’s, but I don’t stutter unless I take a breath. So when I talk in convos I just speak excitedly and don’t take breaths. But when I’m reading a whole page...

YMMV but when I'm blocked I snap my fingers and it seems to help....