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You described it perfectly there. It's so frustrating because you know you have a lot of potential but it often goes to waste because of your stutter. I think we've all imagined how easy life would be...

Yes, I've noticed that I'm angrier because I can never be myself around people. It's like they don't know the real me, my real personality, my real spirit, If I think about it I would even consider my...

biggest problem about stuttering

biggest problem about stuttering I've noticed that the stutter itself is obviously very annoying and hard to deal with, but it's not my biggest problem with it. The deal really is that you cannot ful...

One important thing to remember is to not avoid! Don’t avoid situations, and don’t avoid words or things you want to say. Stutter like a fuckerfucker! And remember that all negative feelings eventuall...

It is true that if you socialize more, you can come to control your stutter to a certain extent. It's not easy. Because we already have extreme social anxiety out of the fear that we would be ridicule...

Appreciate it, that’s good advice. I’m going to try to work that into my morning routine. One thing I’m trying to do with the anxiety stuff is to approach it with curiosity and acceptance (like obje...

For me, I think accepting stuttering is like saying "I don't care about stuttering anymore", "stuttering is neither bad nor good, it just is" or "I will not try to hide stuttering, fuck it. I give up ...

Yeah, I think you’re right, about it being a panic response to a large degree. And those patterns run deep. I’ve definitely been stuck in that cycle of avoidance, and over time those tactics only make...

> we use voluntary stuttering in order to not really stutter and accept it My interpretation of voluntary stuttering was to help with desensitization and lessen the fear of a stuttering moment. I...

> But here is different. It's accepting the stutter in order to solve it, This is right here, is why it took me over 10 years to really figure out what acceptance meant to me. I think there are ...

Loved this. You just helped me out with that line ">the techniques are just a regular stutter but with a different, better-looking shape". However, I would like to know how do you do when the volun...

> recovered my fluency through psychotherapy The psychotherapy approach isn't talked about nearly enough in this forum and the stuttering community in general. I recently commented that all the s...

Like @bentdouble already said, I think the unknown anticipation on the other caller’s end is what makes it so stressful. “What is the person thinking when there’s a long pause?” I know that too well. ...

In addition to the psychotherapy I mentioned, my lifestyle did change. I left a high demand religion I hadn’t believed and had been pretending to embrace for 37 years. The inauthenticity had caused gr...

>What is the best advice you would recommend a stutterer? I would advice: Re-label 'confidence'. Confidence is deciding/instructing to send command signals to the speech muscles regardless, wi...

>What exactly can you think about when having a conversation, other than what are you going to say in the conversation? In the viewpoint of distraction and not paying attention, we can switch our ...

My two cents, people who stutter are conditionally wired to stop sending command signals to speech muscles (resulting in a speech block), if they: * feel anxiety * foresee anticipation (from negative...

Any tips on losing focus on what I’m saying?

Any tips on losing focus on what I’m saying? I’ve stuttered my whole life, and it’s been incredibly mentally draining. I really feel like I’m capable of being fluent if I could just force myself to st...

"It's not because it's a flawed therapy, but it's because you didn't work hard enough", I totally agree with you. Bro, you said that the battle against stuttering is not just about seeking fluency, b...

This is a reply I made on a similar post. It was for someone who went to an intensive program, but it's essentially the same techniques. Your experience after the intensive speech therapy program is...