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u/ddelaunay Hello!! I have Orthostatic Tremor in my voice, head/neck, knees, and wrist. With my voice, it's a very distinct vocal quaver. And, with my head, I'm often shaking yesyesyes or nonono. It g...

I have a very quiet internal monologue and when i think it’s not actually in my voice, it’s in somebody else’s voice. I don’t know who’s but if i had to guess, probably someone from an anime or cartoo...

My problem is that my mouth fills with saliva when I speak. I also struggle with the pronunciation and I usually swallow words. Anxiety worsens everything...

The smirk on their face as I fumble on my words. That is when I realise that they realise I have a stammer. Then I go into ultra self defensive mode and measure each of my words trying to play cool....

It might not be that he conceives of it like that - in an active or direct sense. Or maybe it's really uncomfortable for him to talk about. Does he ever appear to be troubled by his stutter, either ...

My "stutter" is actually [a tic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palilalia#Causes) but I was in speech therapy all the same. I reaaaaaallly like pull out and soft start...

I have Tourette’s and a stutter. I don’t think either one causes each other for me, but I do think they are very closely related. Right now my stuttering is really severe along with my facial tics...

Those are things called secondary behaviors. " What Do Secondary Behaviors of Stuttering Look Like? In order to try to prevent disfluent moments, or to break out of them once they have already begu...

Yup, It is impossible for me to make eye contact during a block. Instinct kicks in and I have to look away...

I’m not a doctor but I’ve been told Tourettes is closely linked to stuttering, don’t hold my word for it but I’ve noticed a few times that I have very minor tics that come and go. Things like popping ...

Yup sometimes I’ll put so much effort into trying to say a word that I will run out of air and literally have to stop And catch my breath...

I always end up shutting my eyes if I’m having a block, especially if it’s a long one...

I can't make eye contact when I'm stuck, I often close my eyes when I encounter a block....

when I am blocking I can’t make eye contact! It probably makes the block more awkward but it’s definitely just a bad habit now...

Yea it's really hard for me to make eye contact when I am having a block. It's definitely just a practice thing to break the bad habit though. If you're mindful of the problem it'll be a lot easier to...

same here, way more than i should! and if that isn't hard enough the way people look at you is sometimes enough to silence you for a good while...

A technique that might help somebody.

A technique that might help somebody. A technique that might help somebody I used to get the worst blocks and stutter horribly when I was in grade school and in my early high school days but my speec...

They feel like I'm fighting them when I call, and they think I'm angry, but that's my way of making speech understandable without Stuttering 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️... I can't tell him quietly🤦‍♂️.. I'd like to ...

I get. I truly do. I've been stuttering ever since I was born and have seen 5 different speech therapist due to the severity and at the end, the last 4 therapist have said they have no idea how to hel...

i think for me it’s just getting my vocal cords ready to produce a blocked sound. if i say uhhhhh for long enough i can virtually never stutter because my vocal cords are already active....