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Wanted to add the #1 thing that you can offer them to step over the awkwardness they may feel in honest ignorance... Is to, when they make that face say "excuse me" like you had politely held in a bur...

Yeah, I have had those feelings, and still do 37 years later. What sucks is how my brain has normalized certain things people do without thinking. For example, having a conversation with a stranger ...

Speech therapist here. It’s also a self fulfilling prophecy once you are able to naturally stop worrying about your stutter. Obviously it’s easier said than done, but once you start living freely you ...

I was so terrified of speaking in high school that I refused to talk and had 0 friends for 4 years. I’m a naturally outgoing person who loves social interaction. It was brutal. I felt like a loser eve...

I think for some people it can be much more psychological than others. For me it is nearly 100% psychological and the physical part is just being out of breath, not breathing correctly. I don’t stutte...

Been stuttering on and off my whole life. I never stutter when I’m alone, with my immediate family, when I’m presenting (even in big crowds-different cadence of speech and enunciating more than usual)...

That’s me as well. There was a point in my life where I wasn’t so in my head about stuttering and I stuttered less for it, I had a better social life and everything. Now, I’m 30 and it’s been on my mi...

I really feel for you here and you are absolutely not in the wrong. My mum would be the same - she’s unable to accept that there could possibly be anything any of her kids are struggling with… and so,...

Socially awkward because I stutter Its the thing I'm most insecure about, and nothing else comes close...

I am a programmer who has stuttered since I was 4. You can absolutely continue to be a programmer with a stutter. Interviews are hard, but if you tell people that you stutter ahead of time, they w...

I gave some interviews for my internship and everytime they asked me, "tell me your weakness and strengths" I was always upfront about my stuttering and told them how I deal with it honestly. After 9 ...

By reducing stress, optimizing sleep and fixing your diet. But that wont have the same effect as dopamine antagonists. Else mental illnesses caused by too much dopamine would be able to be fixed that ...

Is it possible to reduce dopamine naturally?

Is it possible to reduce dopamine naturally? We know that there are some medications (antipsychotics) that reduce dopamine, but these medications have side effects that can affect your health. And my ...

In college when my stutter was real bad and I was really self conscious about it, I would give girls a completely fake name because I would stutter on my name. To this day, some people still remember ...

Yep, it's my go-to. I always prefer an awkward substitution over blocking. I'll even use a fake name if I'm in an encounter with a stranger I'll never see again. Some will say that's wrong, but whate...

Well it's Wednesday now, so, I'd probably just clock in at work. Then maybe throw a curveball and order a different coffee for once....

Getting past my Stammer (25 or so years on)

Getting past my Stammer (25 or so years on) **Note there are references to medications in this: they are certainly not an endorsement, far from it.** Ok so I joined this sub and spent a few days rea...

Yes that is exactly what i am doing, i even try to go into negative state when talking to people so that blocks come and when they come i keep my breath intact, i keep on phonating and articulating, a...

>1.Pushing hard (with lips, tongue, or throat) > >2.Stopping phonation (when anxiety hits, anticipatory fear hits and you go into a little brain fog/fear) > >3.Stopping breathing as well > ...

Its not aging, its a slight glitch that happens , you must have went through some kind of stressfull or traumatic event before/during when it came...just start to observe yourself there are few things...