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Alcohol increases my fluency to a certain degree, but the stutter is still there. MJ makes my stutter much worse because my mind is usually racing, and as a result I tend to talk too fast. However, my...

i see i have to clarify my sentence: i mean that i am able to fall into stuttering while drunk too... ;) (hence the parantheses. it was an odd way to describe it. being "good" at something "bad", eh?...

Sometimes alcohol makes me stutter less and other times alcohol makes it worse. ...

not always. i still manage to stutter just fine a lot of the time (weird phrasing, i know!). i wouldn't consider it "medicine" if i was you :P...

I've had one beer in my life. It tasted like shit and made my head hurt for a minute, but it damn-near eliminated my stutter....

Yes and Yes. Usually my friends notice my stuttering decrease when I have a few drinks, I get more talkative when I'm drunk and stutter so much less. Same goes with MJ although I don't get more talka...

My stutter from stress/anxiety/etc will decrease, but the usual goodies from getting drunk are there for me and increase as I drink more than two or three drinks. ...

No experience with MJ, but a drink or two will help out my stutter immensely. Any more than that and I start slipping down the slurred speech route. Your mileage may vary....

Anyone else find alcohol and/or marijuana stops your stutter?

Anyone else find alcohol and/or marijuana stops your stutter? I know they can both calm you down, but I've had great results on both. So tempted to go around intoxicated all day just to speak properly...

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. ...

I stutter worst around my parents for some reason. I made a completely new group of friends and I never stuttered around them. Until I got drunk, then it was bad. I also stutter when hungover, like my...

hmm, i stutter less or not at all when i'm drunk! ...

English 18. Stutter has come and gone. But I'be improved enough I'm an English teacher in Thailand. Still stutter but only when I'm drunk really ...

Yeah I use myself as a control. I know when I call people and talk on the phone I do average. When I was on Valium I was having long drawn out convos with me doing a lot of the talking fluent. I guess...

I have a very similar problem of blocking. Weed also makes mine worse. However on stimulants I can say everything I want to say. Even coffee helps for a few hours. Meditation didn't help the block...

First of all thank you for all of this information. It is mostly spot on. I don't think I have an anxiety disorder either, although I was almost starting to convince myself I did. As far as the weed...

Trying to find where the root of my stutter (blocking) problem resides.

Trying to find where the root of my stutter (blocking) problem resides. I have a stutter (blocking type). It started when I was younger and after a long hockey career and a few concussions later it go...

The many wonderful girls I met when I was young (18 and 23) I fell so in love with them as I was drinking and dancing with them. Whenever I was sober I was too ashamed to call them. I am so sorry for ...

I used to be really embarrassed of my stutter and when a drank I would 'blame it on the alcohol' hehe. But then it became a problem because I thought I was socially awkward and later developed into an...

I brought this up to my speech therapist and she laughed, saying, "Once we get further into therapy and you have real, tangible tools to help you through your speech, you will find that you stutter th...