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Hey, I appreciate the reply. Interesting story and glad you are doing better. I think there are other reasons for stuttering that could vary for different people. Cognitive inflexibility I think c...

Experience from a 40 year old…

Experience from a 40 year old… Long post here… I’m 40. My stutter generally comes with certain word blocks. Most people don’t know that I have a stutter since I’ve learned to mask it well over the y...

I think of one of those piano games where it highlights the keys and you have to keep up with it, not a color in its own but the keys are black and white....

I have a metaphor for this kind of disfluency - the holding breathe part of it. It’s like pushing against a wall but because physics we know that the wall pushes back with equal force. There’s a thoug...

I took an afternoon shift on college radio when I was an undergrad. Tons of pressure but I learned a lot. I spent a lot of time on show prep because I planned and wrote out all my talk sets beforehand...

You got a point. Personally, I think the fear I have for stuttering and potentially being ridiculed forces me to try to come up with different pathways to fluency. I start searching for synonyms, rest...

Honestly yeah being a stutterer is something that keeps our brain working like a radar, scanning for every possible scenario before getting into the speaking situation then scanning for every possible...

I didn't pick up on any shaming lol but thank you. I forget if I mentioned it here or elsewhere but there are times where I've been told to slow down and I'm speaking too fast. I will try and focus o...

I get that but surely there's a good few methods to help alleviate the symptoms and to slow the brain and heart down. We all have techniques for stuttering but sometimes things can interfere with it ...

Do you have any studies that show people who stutter perceive stuttering worse than other people? Also when you say people who stutter are highly sensitive what do you mean by that?...

I get where you're coming from, but it's pointless thinking negatively like that. Never feel like your speech is a burden for others. It's not, stop thinking like that. As stutters we are perfectionis...

speech and language therapy

speech and language therapy Currently I'm in speech therapy and... I suck at it... the whole point of this is for me to talk so my therapist can hear my stutter and suggest techniques to help with it,...

Omg BRAVOOO!!! This document is unbelievably helpful. I always hear tips about reducing stutter but never heard this type of advice (sorry if that doesn’t make sense lol). But like omgggggg, I never t...

I only block when my brain decides to say a word I don’t intend to say

I only block when my brain decides to say a word I don’t intend to say If I’m talking and my train of thought is: “Today I went to the supermarket” My brain thinks I’m gonna stutter and decides to t...

I feel like that's an issue we all have. Our mind is doing double time and our mouths can't keep up. I've been told before that I talk too fast and need to slow down, I always take note of it and try...

That's what everyone has been telling me for so long, actually "Think twice about it" etc. But it doesn't really work for me, maybe you, yes ?...

If that works for you, do it! I chronically breathe from my chest and am always sighing. If I try to force myself to breathe from my belly (definitely feels harder than chest breathing) it calms me do...

Yeah I would actually count the paragraphs to see what paragraph I would get, and then practice it in my head…. Which in turn made it 10000x worse...

Don't worry,you are not alone.I have had those breakdowns almost on a daily basis in school.We used to read a set book in turns,and i could not even read the first word.The whole class used to laugh a...

Agreed, and it usually affects my speech. In my call centre, it's common ill get a dry mouth, blocked nose or congested throat and I don't know if it's coincidence, due to the fact I speak all day fo...