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I generally repeat myself but since it's a light form of stutter I barely notice it. When I am blocked it's harder. Sometime I just have to stop and say the word slowly in the most sarcastic voice pos...

It's pretty severe. It has gotten to the point where I have physical pain from really bad blocks where I bite my lip or my teeth scrape the inside of my bottom lip. I just started therapy again with ...

Mouth/tongue piercings or braces with a stutter?

Mouth/tongue piercings or braces with a stutter? I've been considering saving up for braces and used to want to get my lip or something pierced (like snake bites or something). Not as interested in ge...

Oh yes, the kicker is getting asked to repeat something I normally would actually stutter trying to say but managed to fluently say... 😩 So it turns into me getting blocked and making those awkward m...

I have this thing where I twitch when I stutter. Not just when I stutter but a lot sort of on sync ish with when I stutter. I might have tourettes...

I can relate... I used to be able to say "thank you!" so easily, but in the past year or so it's become one of my feared phrases. I've taken to saying "hank you!" and hoping they don't notice I'm miss...

Yeah same here man... Idk try to relax your articulators (mouth, tongue,..)or warm them up (like clench your jaw then relax). Then try to speak slowly, focusing on your breath as you exhale it, and pr...

Movements while stuttering?

Movements while stuttering? I have a stutter that comes up sometimes. Usually, I just slow down and repeat what I say. Sometimes if I get stuck on a word or sound, I find my self making a noise with m...

You’re asking the million dollar question. In short, it takes practice. What I will do is talk to my family and try to get myself to stutter, which isn’t hard. Since I know they don’t care, I can real...

I keep getting weird looks

I keep getting weird looks I have a stutter and when I'm talking I'll just like seize up and I can't say anything until I take a deep breath. This makes me look stupid sometimes and people look at me ...

I close me eyes sometimes too on a difficult word, seems to help me get my focus or something I think...

This is one of those things that I really try to not do but I'll sometimes site back and rub my head or rub my chin. ​ All about attempting to distract the person your talking to from wh...

if i'm really struggling on a word. i tend to notice that i close my eyes and turn my head away from the person or people i'm talking to....

Speech therapists working with dysfluency call these secondary behaviors or physical comorbidities, because they are a separate thing from the stutter itself. People develop these habits over time as ...

Lol I've been asked the same thing. Some stutterers have face and head tics, like me....

Subconscious movements or gestures?

Subconscious movements or gestures? Anyone else find themselves pointing in some direction or moving their arms in a certain way when struggling through a word? Hard to describe it but I sometimes wil...

I get blocks a lot so I freeze and look away as my brain tries to grab on to the word i want to say.. yesterday a coworker asked me why I was there so late and I wanted to say "I'm doubling" but I cou...

I get elongations and blocks.. but my worst are when I get stuck repeating a sound. It's very.. uncontrollable when it happens? Like My jaw just opens and it jerks repeatedly, making the sound until I...

I hand talk. I move my hands a lot when I am stuttering to get the word out. I've been practicing not doing it, but it's hard. ...

I’m a female stutterer :’) I’ve been stuttering since I was a kid, and it used to be really bad. I repeat the first letter of a word mostly, but I also have times where I hold onto a word for a long p...