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I think secondary are learned behaviors from a Person who stutters who fights to get the word out. They happen overtime and can become habit. They can differ from saying um, facial movements, tapping ...

Stuttering and pregnancy

Stuttering and pregnancy Females who stutter and have children, did your fluency get worse when pregnant? Since pregnant mine went from mild where some wouldnt know I stuttered unless they hangout wit...

Secondaries are face or body movements that accompany stuttering but are not directly caused by it, rather the body does them to help the words get out. Edits: typos...

I am not a stutterer, but I am interested in stuttering. So what do you think of secondaries? As they as far as I have seen dont get mentioned here often. No offense meant, I am just curious.

I am not a stutterer, but I am interested in stuttering. So what do you think of secondaries? As they as far as I have seen dont get mentioned here often. No offense meant, I am just curious. ...

Mine does that about 1 month out of the year every year for me. It always is paired with my stress levels rising, and with the current state of the world you could very well just be more stressed tha...

I used to do this too. To the point it would make me sound all mumbly. Hard habit to break....

I'm a high School teacher with moderate-to-severe stutter, working on year 21. Days can be hard. Years can be hard. About 10 years ago, my class schedule had me talking for 4 hours straight. That... w...

I put it in the room. When it gets really bad I do a chester cheeto-esque face shake out. Its fair game for the kids to ask me to repeat myself. Honestly the biggest issue is that I can't read verba...

The key to realizing if you have a stutter is the tension. If you feel a lot of built up tension in your throat, jaw, or even face while you talk, then you might have a stutter. Stutterers generally ...

Yeah exactly. There’s another guy I know that stutters and it’s always interesting to watch him while he’s stuttering cause his face tenses a lot and I often wonder if mine does the same thing. It’s s...

Yeah. Hit the nail on the head. Tension. Very tense and no way to avoid it on certain words. People that don’t stutter just hear the noise... they don’t feel what it’s like to make the noise. I guess ...

If someone looks like there about take a shit when saying a word, it’s the real deal. When someone just moves there mouth using a repetition without any other facial expression there tryna flex stutte...

They don’t look too uncomfortable I suppose. When people fake it it’s usually just the sound not any of the other things like the tension in your face or secondary movements that most stutterers have....

They control their stutter (same way to stutter everytime) and choose the "common" letters to do it (b, p and t)....

I would consider the display of tension. While many stutterers have developed physical mechanisms to help them move through a block or a repetition, many stutterers experience a physical tightening an...

Mine isn’t too bad since I don’t have many really negative experiences part from the usual “Did you forget your name” or something like that. When I was 14, I was doing woodwork at school and as par...

Well.. I bang on the freakin table with my hand trying to spit out a word so... following for tips 😂...

Any techniques for getting over habits caused from stuttering?

Any techniques for getting over habits caused from stuttering? I used to tap my foot or hands or something to keep time while I talked to make it more musical. Now for some reason I’ve developed a con...

when i was 8 my life was okay.

when i was 8 my life was okay. i didn't stutter as much then. it didn't seem like much of a problem. a sentence would probably go, "H-Hey, can you p-p-pass the s-salt?" Now I try to ask for things an...

Not really around certain people, but stressful situations make it worse. I don’t really stutter more in either of my other two languages, but I do slur my words a lot more....