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I was commenting about phonecall being the final boss or the hardest thing (because he/she stutters). So I say that in my case, (and mostly certain other people's also), stutter happens because we r n...

I know how you feel. I have moments where I feel really confident and my stutter is almost non existent, then other times I can barely form a sentence without stuttering. I work in a job that requir...

Yea no I feel the same way. I can tell when people look at me I come across as shy, standoffish, or not interested in speaking to them. Guilt may be the wrong word, more like we fear how we are incorr...

The other day, a girl told me she liked my hair, and she was being so nice to me. I couldn’t even say thank you all I could do was smile. But it looked like such a fake smile because I was anxious. I ...

Do you have stutterer's guilt?

Do you have stutterer's guilt? I'm not sure if anyone else experiences this but I feel guilty in avoiding conversations with nice people over the fear of stuttering. I always hope that they don't thin...

>Reducing fear can help fluency, as you pointed out. It can break the vicious cycle and reduce the approach-avoidance conflict, leading to (more) fluent speech. After all, reducing fear is one of many...

>one day I tried visualizing that I was alone while speaking to classmates… and I was fluent the entire day. That's great. I don't think that would work for me as I've always been hyper-aware of othe...

>*"The question then becomes: how to reduce that fear when speaking with others?"* Yes, exactly! Great question. Perhaps we can desensitize stuttering by learning to accept it (not caring about it), ...

Pretty quickly. Within months I went from not being able to string more than two or three words together to being able to say full sentences most of the time....

Exactly 😊 Back in university, I stuttered severely—but one day I tried visualizing that I was alone while speaking to classmates… and I was fluent the entire day. Like you said, it’s clearly not jus...

I don't think it's only anticipating a feared word. There's more fear when speaking to another person, which feeds the tension, but alone there is less fear so less tension. The question then becomes:...

I stutter more around family or people I’m close to. Less chance of being judged. I’m much more mindful of it when I communicate with strangers or co-workers...

Its so nuanced, it seems like it could trigger from a certain situation or word that reminds us we can stutter and our memories are attached to feelings so the body starts sending signals and changing...

I've always stuttered more around my parents than anyone else. I don't know if it's because I'm not trying to hide or substitute words or if it's some kind of trigger but it's been like this for as lo...

Speaking with repetitions + neurobiology more predisposed to sensitivity/fear + an unsupportive early environment = fear based blocks and avoidance behaviors. Speaking with repetitions + neurobiology...

Do you feel differently when you stutter in front of different genders/social groups?

Do you feel differently when you stutter in front of different genders/social groups? I’m a woman who stutters, and I would say I definitely feel more/less comfortable stuttering in front of certain ...

I was not afraid to speak initially even with stuttering...

ig other people ? Kids are not insecure by default, on the contrary (i mean if you have good parents), kids learn that "skill" in a perfect not-ableist, not-allergic-to-difference world, we'd just s...

Presentations are like torture methods for us at times, I think people with a stutter should get prescribed Valium or something lmao, let us calm down before getting up to speak so we don’t torture ou...

I'm right there with you. It's always so anxiety-inducing *before* the presentation, and instead of being relief that it's over, it was just a dread of "well now they think I'm dumb" *after*. The thin...