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

Sounds exhausting and very stressful when you cant change the word....

Have you tried delayed audio feedback? It's pretty good. There are several free apps for smartphones. I find a single earphone will help quite a lot. It easy to hide using your hair. ...

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...

Me. I do this. All day. ...

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

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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...

Not like this always works for me, this is an unorthodox method to stay relaxed and I probably require some professional help for thinking this, but meh. I remember William Wallace's quote in Bravehe...

You're 100% right! You just reminded me of one very good moment. I was in 8th grade when I had to do a presentation in front of my whole class. Day before presentation I read in one article that you n...

This. A million times this....

I have been in this situation, but instead I was just stuttering like crazy and it made a bad impression; I almost felt like the interviewer thought I was on something or just hung over or something. ...

I don't know if you stammer/stutter whn you are alone, I know I sometimes do and sometimes don't...so I do. What I do to combat this is focus less on the exact words I'm going to say and instead think...

Thanks ;)...

Spend a good 10 minutes (or however much time you have) before the presentation closing your eyes, taking deep breaths, and think about how you will go through your presentation without stuttering. Th...

Does anyone know some effective relaxation tehniques??? (I need to presentate by tomorrow!)

Does anyone know some effective relaxation tehniques??? (I need to presentate by tomorrow!) So I have a pretty bad stammer, especially when I need to presentate something. Tomorrow I will have an exam...

it's a bit autobiography -- she retells some of her experiences with stuttering. It's technically a memoir. So, it's in the same vein as stream of other autobiographical writers such as David Sedaris....

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Friends (National Association of Young People Who Stutter) Event! Saturday May 10th, 2014

Friends (National Association of Young People Who Stutter) Event! Saturday May 10th, 2014 ...