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I've had enough of this , Just why ??

I've had enough of this , Just why ?? So as a little background I'm 17 years old and I've always had a stuttering for as long as I remember. When I was a child (pre puberty) it used to be very mild an...

What's you think of this?

What's you think of this? Going through the process trying to see an orthopedic surgeon so I had to see his nurse practitioner first. I saw her a couple days ago, the check in nurse kinds giggled when...

A small trick i’ve been doing that is quite helpful

A small trick i’ve been doing that is quite helpful my name starts with an “A” and i’ve always stuttered saying my name which gave me a lot of anxiety in social situations/class rooms/ university… But...

Stuttering randomly gets worse.

Stuttering randomly gets worse. So I'm a 15 y/o with stuttering. And alot of time I notice that my stuttering gets really worse. Like can't even talk smoothly with friends but some days I feel like ta...

Multiple things can be true simultaneously - Stuttering isn’t your fault. - blocking is actually what happens when you work *too hard* to try to fix the problem - The wrong speech therapy can mak...

Sucks when a situation could've been avoided if you could only get the words out fast enough

Sucks when a situation could've been avoided if you could only get the words out fast enough I was trying to explain something, trying to get those last few words out, but then they got impatient and ...

Ya it is a disability anyone who says otherwise is doing harm. But you can not engage with a block. I refuse to try and struggle to push thru. Or at least i try not too. Silence is an option, not alwa...

Yeah it makes me feel pretty bad so I stutter more....

I'm with you. The basal ganglia neurotransmitter abnormalities and motor desynchronisation are major components of stuttering pathophysiology. Unfortunately it is unknown whether these correlations ar...

That’s right, because neurologically the brain controls all functions of our respiratory and speech systems such as breathing, laryngeal articulation etc…. Too many areas of the brain involved in the ...

The stuttering is caused by mis-timing / desynchronisation of neurotransmitter signals in the speech motor areas of the brain (basal ganglia, striatum, Broca’s area etc). By slowing down, breathing a...

I wish it was that simple, but there's a lot going on neurologically to result in what we call a block or a repetition which is what you described For instance, the motor systems of the brain not coo...

When we stutter (not block), is it bc our airflow is too much?

When we stutter (not block), is it bc our airflow is too much? Like on the letter h, when I stutter it’s like h-h-hxxxx A block I’m assuming is somewhat the opposite bc no air is coming out. What do...

I almost never stutter when reading but when talking to myself or reciting a script I will still block on certain words, the same words I block on when talking to others....

Look, I have a bad stutter (blocks). I’ve had many nights where I cried myself to sleep cause of how many opportunities I didn’t take cause of my stutter. However I never tried to let that affect my ...

I actually DO get physical pain for stuttering! I stutter really badly . I almost stomped earlier ....

I literally just answered a phone call and had a hard time saying hello. I've never had that problem before....it does seem like the older we get the more common the blockages become...

Just sth

Just sth Tomorrow, I’ll be meeting my childhood friend after two years (the first time since her marriage) and her parents will be there too. But every time I meet her, it feels like I go back to sq...

Have to speak situation

Have to speak situation So today at work, I had to convey one message to my coworker. I started speaking frist word came out good, then I tried and tried to get out my second word, It did get out but ...

What about Vitamin B1? I am taking that with Magnesium. That is supposed to help, but I have not seen much difference. I do have a VERY unusual and rare stutter, though! I think that my stutter is mor...