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Immediately lose eye contact, chin raises as if im trying to keep my head above water and sometimes body twitches. If I’m blocking I usually just close my eyes to find the words I’m looking for but it...

What are your guys' secondary movements?

What are your guys' secondary movements? Im a stutterer but Ive never met anyone else who stuttered. I dunno how other people stutter other than what I can find on youtube which isn't a whole lot, so ...

I sometimes get fellow stutterers calling in to the call centre I work at. My stuttering mostly comes in the forms of facial ticks and occasional hangs on certain words at random. I normally don't eve...

That's actually quite common for non-stutterers too. Of course, it varies how much people use it. Do note that if you're using it as a "trick", you should monitor if it becomes a part of the stutter ...

I second this - do voluntary stuttering. Keep your voice during it. It will help desensitize yourself to your stutter and reduce 2ndary behaviors. I recommend to do while reading everyday ...

Ok, well it happened about a month or so ago. I work as a server/Busser at an upscale Senior Living community and had just finished making about 15 rolls of silverware I use in my section for that nig...

Obviously everyone is different but my speech therapist worked with me on purposeful clenching my vocal chords so I could get used to and better at relaxing them. Once I hit a block I am starting to g...

Bruh, numbers kill everyone. Yesterday at Subway, I thought I'd be slick and order a "sub of the day" instead of "Teriyaki Chicken". Got stuck on Sub. Until now, every time I say something that star...

It makes complete and total sense my man I feel the same way. I have a small computer repair business now and I go to strangers' houses all the time and they don't even know I have stutter, that's how...

Secondary movements are pretty common. I used to always touch my face if I got particularly stuck. I've managed to limit it most of the time though ...

Middle school / high school is when I stopped trying to force through stutterers. But you can unlearn any secondary behavior at any age, it's just more ingrained the older you are. ...

Yes, I absolutely do. One of my eyes starts to twitch and my mouth gets all tense. It’s not unusual for me to slightly stick out my tongue as well. No wonder some people laugh when they see it (most...

Yeah, my right eyebrow tends to shoot up when I hit a block. But I think I've gotten better at managing that over the years....

I do, sometimes. I've been told i's "painful" to watch me speak because of it. I'm new to stuttering--I developed a neurogenic stutter a few years back--and the change has been difficult on the peopl...

I think those are just called blocks. When I get a block my face muscles become tense and I can't seem to move my face at all. ...

I absolutely do. While in therapy one of the first actions were to record me while speaking and reading out loud. I clearly show movements in my mouth and eyebrow area as I stutter with physical block...

Try to become aware that you’re doing them. If I realized it I would slow down, relax my face muscles, and speak softer and slower...

When you stutter do you have facical grimances or head movements?

When you stutter do you have facical grimances or head movements? Yesterday was International Stuttering Awareness Day, so for the organization that I'm in, NSSLHA, invited someone who stutters to tal...

For those who use a technique: Do you ever feel exhausted after using said technique?

For those who use a technique: Do you ever feel exhausted after using said technique? This is something that I am very curious to hear different opinions on. So allow me to explain in case the title i...

Yeah, when I stutter, my throat seems to just seize up, and tense up pretty severely. Makes me exhausted after a really intense bout. The gutteral letters - g, c, k etc. really get me. My time in the ...