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Firstly you must identify your stutter. Understand what it is. For me personally, I block when I stutter. I feel my body tense and the word gets stuck in my throat. Identify the little things you do w...

Yes, I get that feeling, it feels like a stone in my chest and then my throat just closes. I clutch my hands tightly in order to force myself to get words out. I've been trying to control my breathin...

Actively stopping myself when it happens and releasing words on exhales. It has also helped having people hold me accountable so that I don’t try to just push through the block and facial/head movemen...

Can you please explain me what helped you to lessen it? Facial movement is my biggest annoyance when stuttering....

Here’s my experience: I’ve had 15 job interviews in the last 12 months (Full time Resident Firefighter/EMT trying to make the transition to full time union FF). Very competitive industry, I stutter, ...

I have a tendency to bite my lip when I get a speech block it's quite annoying....

I used to have a lot of head and facial movement whenever I had a block. Over the past 2 years I’ve gotten it down to minimal to no movement at all...

It’s a secondary reaction. You twitch to “get the word out”. Whether it’s arm spasm, blinking. Ect. Happens to us all. One thing is to manage exactly how we do these spasms to look as natural as possi...

Twitch-y?

Twitch-y? just a quick question, but do any of y’all like twitch or spaz our a bit when you stutter? I know that when i stutter especially for a long time on one letter or word i start twitching real...

#Don't bite your tongue until it bleeds! Self-inflicted wounds are _not_ helping you! The other deviated behaviors you mention aren't helping you either. All of them are, instead, elaborate parts o...

I just cant spit the word out and I'm losing my minddddddddddddddddd

I just cant spit the word out and I'm losing my minddddddddddddddddd I really dont know what to do at this point. I can easily say any letter if its solo but as soon as its a word, its just not comin...

Customer Experience

Customer Experience okay i work at a fast food restaurant that had a drive thru, this means i have to talk to customers through a headset. the fast pace of this restaurant and pressure to take an ord...

This. Literally no one that doesn’t stutter will ever understand how this feels. Often I tense my chest and stomach to get the word out...

Do you have kind of micro depressions when you stutter?

Do you have kind of micro depressions when you stutter? You just about to start or already talking to someone, having good mood and then a wild block or stutter appears. Time slows down, you become aw...

When you yawn, that’s using your costal diaphragm. Many intensive speech courses use the costal breathing to help stutterers and I use it all the time, it’s a massive help...

My experience with stuttering

My experience with stuttering I'm a 15 y/o boy from Holland, so sorry if my grammar is bad. I stutter very heavily, i can't say 2 words without stuttering. It really makes me sad because if i want t...

I know! I hate that, I always try take the back phone near no one when handing over or talking at the nurses station but sometimes there will always be ppl around and they hear me stammer bad over the...

I am a claims adjuster. My stutter is not too severe but has its challenges. I mostly stutter hardcore when i’m nervous or in front of a crowd... or explaining things to my manager haha. So i tend t...

I remember jobs when answering with a script was mandatory- no word changing or editing. I got in trouble at one restaurant job for major word changing. I didn't have the stones to say: "you know ho...

Question for fellow stutterers

Question for fellow stutterers So today I tried to talk to my teacher about a very important issue regarding school. I literally couldn’t get a word out. I would choke up every 5 seconds and I felt li...