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> I’ve had moments where I embarrass myself on blocks or bad days of stuttering How do you deal with blocks sometimes leading to people interrupting you and responding to the cut off sentence, esp...

"A stumbling" description inclines me to say no and chalk it up to an occasional disfluency. If you physically cannot get the words out or struggle with prolongations and repetition of words, then it...

I’ve worked in schools and knew many school speech therapists and none of them received training in treating dysfluency. I spent a decade “taking a deep diaphragm breath” and my dysfluency actually g...

If that works for you, then wonderful! But I think others of us here who have taught ourselves to speak almost without blocks are doing the opposite of that. Exhale, begin slowly and include a vo...

My stutter is getting pretty severe right now, how to I get out of it?

My stutter is getting pretty severe right now, how to I get out of it? I have had a moderate to severe stutter all my life. Talking to people has always been pretty difficult. It has gotten better in ...

Thank god there’s a word for blocks I thought it was just a me thing...

blocks are the worst, specifically [completely silent blocks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQGYv6Khk8E&t=38s). I used to think it's the repetitions that I should avoid, but it turns out it's th...

I’m maybe 95% blocks with a dash of prolongations. I, the masochist I am elected to do drama at school where it was dubbed my “dramatic pause.” Seriously though it’s an enigma to me. Im pretty fluent...

Stuttering on “it’s okay”

Stuttering on “it’s okay” Hiiii! I’m a freshman in high school and I have a stutter since I was 5 years old. One of the things that I struggle with is saying the words “it’s okay” or reassuring people...

The stutter type 2 and 3, how to deal with it?...

Hi there. We seem to have the same kind of stutter. I’m about ten years older than you but I remember just how bad high school was battling a stutter. What you’re referring to are blocks. There’s not ...

My stutter is making me depressed.

My stutter is making me depressed. Hello, I'm in 9th grade and the title speaks for itself. A few years ago a pretty traumatic event happened and after that I got my stutter. My stutter isn't that bad...

So hard to stutter even that I feel so loved

So hard to stutter even that I feel so loved Hey guys Tonight I went to my usual nightclub and I walked with a girl, i wanted to say to her something and that took me 30 secs to say and she didn’t hea...

So, I just had a presentation that I practiced a lot for.

So, I just had a presentation that I practiced a lot for. This time I tried to practice with my family and also people in the discord call. Although my argument was good, when it was my turn to talk I...

Can’t vocalise certain words

Can’t vocalise certain words Hello everyone, first time posting here. I have this inability to vocalise certain words with consonants next to each other. Examples: undergraduates, India, community. So...

Blocks are literally, directly CAUSED by trying to hide repetitions/prolongations. All fluent speakers have occasional repetitions. It's true. Listen carefully. The difference is that they are sho...

'Block' is when you're trying to say something and you're just looking at the person and your mouth is open and nothing comes out? And then you're embarrassed because they're looking at you waiting fo...

I feel it in my throat more. All of my breathing and talking muscles just seem to lock up to a degree and quit working right....

This happens to me which leads to me straining to breakout of the breathing block / lock feeling. Do you mind going over what you do for breathing? Since I think it would be really helpful....

Yeah, this is what happens to me when I try to speak. It's honestly exhausting. It's one of the things we're trying to work on in speech therapy - breathing properly. It's like when I'm in a block eve...