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That’s very specific and I understand what you mean. I am not sure how mindful of this mechanism I am in the moments of stuttering but, I would say whenever I am prolonging a word I activiely am tryin...

I will try to elaborate it. What if I'm walking, how did I move my legs? I'd say that we chose to move our legs, because 'the decision/instruction' is in our control. We cannot directly operate the fe...

I argue that it could indicate that 'physical tension' doesn't lead to halting of the speech movements (or inhibiting execution of motor movements), but if people who stutter 'believe' that tightening...

Yes, you could be right the stress or anxiety evokes the conditioned response, which in this case is tightening the lips or other speech muscles needed for speech production. Anyway, what I was tryi...

Also, right now if you (1) tense your lips as tight as possible, and then (2) pronounce the letter B or P. Did you stutter just now? What would you answer? I find this a good way to highlight the mis...

>*"I am 20 and have started with a new speech therapist over the course of the last year and throughout sessions I get reminded continuously fluency should not be the goal and things similar to tha...

Yea same. Also, when the first word ends with one and the next word starts with one its so hardddd...

Interesting. Usually I don't struggle once the word is out but, of course, they just don't want to come out sometimes....

I understand. I feel like the fear of stuttering leads me to stutter....

Yeah, I feel like the fear of stuttering causes me to stutter and it's frustrating. It's impossible not to worry about it since it always happens....

Thanks for sharing. I need to try this. Blocking is my stuttering issue....

I had a speech therapist that really helped me. I had the type of stuttering where you just BLOCK on a word..it can’t get past your stiffened lips. She told me to push breath out my lips when I bloc...

My speech language pathologist said words like ‘chicken’ are typically harder to say because it starts with a ‘hard’ sound. She said the way through it, for me, is to try gentle onsets. Which is basic...

I can never start a conversation first with anybody. I’ll always stutter on the first word horrible like for example if I wanna say “Hey, how are you” it’ll be like “H-h-h-h” and the word just won’t c...

I've found they usually don't know about blocks and secondary behaviors. They think a stutter is repetitions only....

It the interview goes smoothly i won't if im having really hard time speaking and continues block i might tell them to ease the pressure...

Do you block to reduce physical pain?

Do you block to reduce physical pain? In my own experience, yes indeed, I inhibit execution of motor speech movements in order to reduce physical pain. The pain for me is felt in the head (1) after re...

Confused

Confused So for the majority of us who don't stutter when we talk to ourselves... why the hell then do we stutter when speaking to people ?? I have a conference coming up next week and I was just prac...

How exactly does it make things worse? More repetitions, more silent blocks, more secondary behaviors?...

End Stuttering

End Stuttering I am an ex stutterer, following a car accident, in which I received a TBI.I will share some insightsI have gained: It seems to me that 10% of people do something that affects their dia...