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Hahahaha yeah my friends sometimes are too high to do it for me so I walk my stoned stuttering ass up to the till and stammer on chicken burger for about half a minute but it’s so worth it in the end....

This is me, but when I talk for a short period of time because I don't have a lot of control over my breathing when I get into a hard block....

Yes. I suffer from TMJ, similar to TMD. I don’t know if the TMJ worsened the stutter or if the stutter caused the TMJ....

Yes I thought it was just me!! It usually happens around people I’m super comfortable with (my mom, my bf, close friends). Strangers I try to limit my conversations with most of the time. I get out of...

Absolutely, mate. Same story here. My completely unscientific theory is that when I start a sentence and it seems to be going well, then my brain wants to make the most of it and say as much as possib...

Same here, I think it's because we're not used to talking for long periods of time. It only happens when I'm with my girlfriend or friends because I'm much less likely to stutter around them. ...

To bounce off this, (and I’ll preface this by saying I’m in school to be a speech therapist, so I’m not a licensed therapist yet), you’re right! And OP is not a freak. What he’s describing are clinica...

All the time. The pain in the ass was my manager kept setting me up to "build my confidence". Nobody ever really reacted negatively but it always felt like an absolute marathon to get through. Usually...

Having a stutter and teaching someone at work is a nightmare

Having a stutter and teaching someone at work is a nightmare I have been put in charge of teaching a new colleague at work and I must say it's really challenging when you have a stutter. One of the im...

I use to use my hands a lot when I talked because for some reason I was able to keep a rhythm and stay fluent. However, a professor of mine who also stutters told me that hand motions is a secondary b...

Unfortunately I don't know anything about the scientific background of this,,, but I think I can relate to what you're doing :D I do these hand motions and change my tone quite often too, I think it h...

I've spent a couple hours researching this. High dopamine levels in the brain affect the basal ganglia, a region of the brain responsible for voluntary motor actions, including the production of speec...

I think you just laid it out perfectly. Even with kids, you don't necessarily stutter as much. ...

If it s a behaviour than it can be unlearned to some extent. Also speech impediment may cause blocks , repetitions , but they don't cause the tension we feel. Speech impediment by themselves are neut...

You are saying behaviours that follow blocking (awkward af silence) is a habit ?...

HEY I HAVE A BLOCK Ok here’s what years of speech therapy have taught me. Your vocal chords are muscles that can be trained just like any other muscle in your body. When I block my vocal chords got ...

Ditto. Also if I’m standing, I shift my weight back and forth from one foot to the other (which makes me seem really intense sometimes, unfortunately). If I’m sitting I tap my fingers on the table / c...

Stutter is often accompanied by ticks of various sorts, yes. There's a tendency to compensate via extraneous movement, which can in turn become habitual - meaning, what you're seeing can be construed ...

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Question I guess it's not common among people who stutter, but I notice one person that I know, who stutter, flails her hands and arms when she's stuck on a word. I didn't to ask her why does she move...

I think thats how it is for most people. it also varies a lot. for the longest time w and n was a mess for me, but this week it is m, l and k. It looks like these will last a while. I am also for the...