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You've hit the nail on the head as far as im concerned. A lot of people and programs have shifted their focus from fluency to not struggling, as they realize the struggle behaviors is really what take...

Hey man, i'm severe like you. A few weeks ago I was on a bad cycle with me speech being a 9 or a 10. Right now things are a little better and its around a 7. I really think the key is learning not to ...

Social stutter?

Social stutter? So question guys... I had small case of stuttering since I was little. Most of my friends tell me they don't notice it. But in social situations especially when meeting new people, n...

I think that I do stutter more in english, or at least I don't talk as clearly and have a higher tendency to mumble but it gets better with practice....

I do stutter as much as in my native language sadly :( BUT everyone is different, I know some people who dosen't stutter at all when speaking english....

So you're probably stuttering because you cant change the word which sends you into a panic overload and you block hard. I hope is that you can learn to speak comfortably, stutter or no stutter. But a...

ahhh yes! the stammering pig in looney toons; I almost forgot...

If you watch the cartoons, that's how Porky Pig talks. His trademark "That's all folks" is just a circumlocution of "The end", which he cannot say...

Also, circumlocution sounds so much better than "the porky pig method" (which is what I call it in my head)...

This is because there is an expectation that you must say your name. I mean, there is only one answer. If someone asks you "whats your favourite city?", you could say anything, you could say los ange...

cmon, it basically means usings a bunch of words in place of fewer words, so I guess it's not substitution, but it basically is....

As you presumably know, it is easy to tell sometimes when a block is coming in. If I can't get past it, I have a few techniques: - 'So I was walking to the ______ umm, yeah the __shops the other day....

Keep trying until you get it. I started this recently, instead of substituting words. At first, it was awkward and prolonged. D...d....dddddooo...dd...dog. But, with time, it has gotten easier. The ...

Yes exactly this. I use word substitution too often... Is there anything you can recommend I do to be able to answer with a specific word?...

circumlocution is a lit term not a speech term... it means changing a round a word or phrase to make something some nebulous on purpose. word substitution is an attempt to change a word or phrase to g...

Interesting, ive never heard the proper term. Word substitution is what I hear in most circles but yeah same thing....

I definitely do this, the proper term is circumlocution and as for OP; I have yet to find a sution to being put on the spot. For some reason it's like a mental road block that literally becomes a bloc...

Word, I am 19 and for a brief period it felt as if my stuttering was getting worse and I felt absolutely helpless. However, I realized it was just my mindset, I was depressed, nervous, doing drugs (wh...

Are you a covert stutterer? Do you use word substitution a lot (change difficult words to ones you feel you can say)?...

I mostly stammer when asked a direct question...

I mostly stammer when asked a direct question... Hi all, I mostly stammer (cant get the word out) when asked a direct question. E.g. Whats your name? What school do you go to? Otherwise im pretty goo...