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Indeed. No matter how many times I “stop caring”, I realize there are more and more layers of resistance I realize I have. That’s why meditating helps me so much with stuttering ...

I don't entirely agree. I think it depends on how it is you aim to control your stutter. If it's via blocking and avoiding words and sounds, then yes that will prove disastrous. But employing active n...

Exactly. When you stop fighting it there is no more fight. How to get there? well that's a much trickier journey 😅...

This is hands down one of the best things i've read regarding stuttering. I recently had the same realization- that I thought of my stuttering as some puzzle that once I "figure out", i'll stop. Tryi...

Also, there's plenty of scientific and observational evidence that the McGuire is successful. You are literally commenting on a video filmed by an independent news organization showing this evidence. ...

Love yourself exactly the way you are even with your stuttering. Talk talk and talk even more. Try to lose the anxiety of talking by talking more. Go out and practice, volunteer, join clubs... You are...

It just happened one day. I was sitting in my dark room, on my bed, getting angry at fluent people. And I just snapped. I told myself this was a *horrible* way to live. I told myself to get out of b...

Really? Small world. Haha funny story, that was actually the first club I signed up for while in university. But during the first meeting, they wanted us to go up in front of everyone and tell an im...

I did this around the same time. My teacher asked me to read in class and I outloud just said I can read this but do you want it to take 5 hrs. Ever since i have been making jokes and stuttering has b...

Well go for it, then! But I just know from experience if I have not done the work to desensitize myself to situations, it often does not go well....

It's great that you are striving, but I think what happened here is you reached a bit too far without a solid foundation. Fear of public speaking is already a serious thing on its own,and you add stu...

Something good did come out of it. You hit rock bottom. Now what will you do? My advice, as someone with 10 years stuttering experience, is to join a public speaking club. It gets easier every time yo...

Just go through with it. Stuttering isn't a disease or smh. It's a part of your identity that makes you different from the rest. The sooner you make peace with stuttering, the sooner you can move on w...

Just do it. I had one back in November and out of the 7 groupmates, only 3 of us spoke. I volunteered to speak because it's these situations that help you to adjust to high pressure situations (if y...

That might be one of the most epic "disaster" stutter stories I've heard haha. I'm glad everyone was a good sport about it and I hope you win the photo contact! If you feel confident about the speech,...

Not quite sure. I think with time, I just started not caring that much about the stutter itself. I insisted on saying this particular sound, no matter its prolongation. It made it less stressful to de...

A lot of speech techniques, including speaking slowly, concentrating on my tongue's moves (it threw stuttering away for one day) or concentrating on my blocks and ease them, beathing with diaphragm, m...

Great suggestion and this totally worked for me - I've always struggled with cold, hard H's - 'Hello' or 'How' - so I had to come up with a similar script. Now through exposure therapy (it's taken ye...

That's a good idea, I'll test it out and see.. I know what exposure therapy is I know I need to introduce myself more often to feel comfortable with it but it just leaves me feeling weird everytime.. ...

Sounds weird, but practice doing it on purpose on words you have no trouble with, doesn’t have to be exaggerated but take ownership of it. Then you know you have it to fall back on if needed...