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Project manager for the government. I lead meetings and teams and give presentations every week. I could either let this overtake my life and choose to let it win or I can do something about it/accept...

That was a really interesting read! Thank you for taking the time to put that together! I know mindfulness can be a really powerful thing, but it sounds like you have really taken it to the next level...

Tips to improve stuttering with different people: * don't pay attention to stuttering, anticipation, overthinking, tension or trying * find your inner confidence whenever you speak with people that t...

>How do I not **overthink** it and remain confident? Many different therapies have many different answers: * Some speech therapies advocate focusing on calm breathing to reduce **overthinking** *...

How do I remain confident?

How do I remain confident? Hello, I'm a high-schooler and stutter. It's annoying when I speech block even tho I don't get it often. My stutter is purely psychological. When Im alone I talk fluently an...

Whatever it is it took me like 36 years it has something to do with tension accumulating in the throat especially when using my vocal cords. (Also sometimes when I get stressed my voice starts getting...

>when you try not to stutter? 71 say yes, 14 say no. In my opinion, if *stutterers* speak on auto-pilot then we stutter, so we have to 'try' something at least to make a difference. In my opinion...

I'm currently in Army Cyber School (17C - Cyber Operations Specialist), and I have a stutter. Although I don't speak into radios, I do have to talk in a group setting and give presentations to higher-...

>"The more you think of it the more you will do it. The more you try, the worse it gets. " Your statement supports what 80% of PWS say that outgrow stuttering eg "don't pay attention to stuttering...

Are you wondering if people like to distract themselves by using their phone or playing video games? Of course we “sorta feel better” after doing one of those things - but it does nothing to address ...

This actually makes it worse for me. When I think too much about what I wanna say it makes me anxious. All my presentations in school were me just winging it, that’s when I was the most fluent....

If I think of the sentence in my head before I say it I am 100% guaranteed to stutter....

Sorry guys ... I stopped the self-experiment because it was a very frustrating time in my life at that time and I just didn't have the energy to continue the experiment. Of course I should have ...

>I change the words I use to express myself sometimes AS I AM SPEAKING because I know the word is about to not work. I agree and a study showed that PWS can 90% of the times - predict a stutter co...

>I do anticipate my stutter. Thank you for your detailed answer. The conclusion is then, before your ninth grade, you didn't have this trigger: * anticipation After your ninth grade you had thi...

At my interview for my current job about five years ago, I stuttered so bad and cried after. Fives years in, I’ve had almost yearly promotions and tripled my salary. Your stutter does not define how m...

>I know that causing tension by forcing it out isn't the correct way to do it, but I cannot help it. I can't even answer a simple "how are you" or say "have a good day". Someone with this type of ...

I'm a life long stutterer and understand your anxiety. I've worked in the biomedical field for over 35 years and have been refused several positions over the years regardless of my credentials, But I ...

Someone doing the most right here. thank you for helping. Like, what if my brain can't "just slow down" what then. Stuttering may be incurable for many of us but it's not as though it's TERMINAL. the...

I argue that **forgetting that I stutter** could lead to: * not paying attention on stuttering * not commenting on, overthinking or overreacting to stuttering, but also not on fluency * positive effe...