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I think you should give it a shot. What helped me a lot with my stutter was realizing I'm not alone and it made me really inspired to keep trying to push through it. You can leave anytime, I'm sure th...

I’ve adopted silent intro words. I struggle with ‘thank you’ so I started saying ‘there you go’ under my breathe and added thank you to the end. It helps me build momentum. I discovered a couple years...

Count me in! I wanted to do something similar already...

I normally stop trying to say the word, pause for a few secs take a breath and start again works 95% of the time. I dont block anywhere as much as I did as a kid. ...

Going to my first support group

Going to my first support group A local support group in my city is having a meeting on Saturday and I’m contemplating whether I should go or not. I really want to go but I’ve never went to any social...

It feels good to know people like you exist, but it's a damn struggle man. As I have said, you can't do much for the blocks as for me they are random AF. I can't predict when they want to appear. For ...

Soo I would absolutely love this😭...

Yes!...

Just thinking if we all do zoom call

Just thinking if we all do zoom call I cannot speak English while I want to speak and stutter so badly that I can't even hold a simple sentence, so forget about having a conversation but think about i...

ugh...phonecalls are the worst...but for me, the more I do it, the easier it gets. At least these days, with text's and emails, there are less phone calls in our daily lives...I'm old enough to rememb...

This is me! I'm a walking cringe-machine! 😂 I'm sure certain people think I'm intellectually disabled because of my speech. ...

Make practice phone calls where you deliberately stutter. I called different Trader Joe's and asked them if they had "any f-f-f-f-f-f-resh f-f-f-f-flowers today"? I did that 50-100 times and became de...

blocks like that are super common actually, its called a silent block versus the repetition type. my coworker wont shut up about Better Speech since they have stuttering specialists apparently. anyway...

This is such a common stutter experience. Phones are the devil. Lots of different things made me more comfortable with calls over time (general self esteem, feeling less embarrassed when I do stutte...

Making phone calls

Making phone calls Does anyone have any advice for making phone calls? I experience tremendous anxiety before I have to make a call or when the phone rings. When I feel this way, I simply cannot say m...

Thank you so much..I actually saw a video about mcquire program for stuttering and there i saw they do the technique that you mentioned here.like it include costal breathing and more controlled speech...

Ah nice, diminishing the experience of people who stutter because you think everyone has the same experience as you. Not all stuttering is created equal. You see there is this thing called scientifi...

I block all of the time. I'd rather repeat more if it meant not being stuck....

It‘s like waiting for a solution for my tinnitus - there is none - you can however live with it to the fullest ...

I have the same stutter as you, I'll have silent blocks and if I feel like I'm going to stutter, or I do start to stutter I'll change the word. Sometimes you don't have the option to change the word t...