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My right eye twitches and my stomach and neck get really tight. So what I TRY (key word try) to do is speak as if my jaw is really loose so my neck/eye don’t tighten up. No tightening up = no stutteri...

When you stutter, have you ever analyzed what your body is doing?

When you stutter, have you ever analyzed what your body is doing? I'm talking about your facial muscles, eyes, lips, tongue, chest, stomach, hands, etc. During a stutter have you ever frozen your body...

I mean , looking at the people who have acquired stammer , which could be caused by brain injury or stroke etc . The only difference i find when listening to them is that their disfluencies are easy a...

I got a concussion towards the end of February. Fell doing drills during track practice, and I'm towards the end of protocol. I did notice that I developed a stutter as well as a type of slur?? When I...

dude, yeah. i used to be a serious biter. i had an interview once for a professorship, and the inside of my mouth was so raw and bloody afterwards, my mouth was in serious pain for like a week afterwa...

Biting lips on B's and P's

Biting lips on B's and P's I've developed this embarrassing habit of sometimes having to bite the inside of my lips to produce a "burst" to pronounce my B's and P's. Of course, my first AND last name ...

I think all the physical stuff is "extra" things we layer on. Physical things like tension, movements, filler words, etc are all poorer ways of reacting to this disconnect that I feel. I think all of ...

Any ideas

Any ideas When asking professors for questions personally I can’t seem to get the words out at all.I feel as if my cheek bones and mouth is immobilized with stress and I can’t do anything about it. Is...

You're not alone, that's for sure. I'm in the exact same boat where my mind starts racing when I know I have to speak. In my first speech therapy session, she tried a few techniques on me. The first o...

I’ve known a few stutterers who are almost fluent around close family in general (and pets/inanimate objects). This is just off of personal experiece, but I think it has to do with anxiety tensing the...

Stuttering is a neurological defect first and foremost. This means that somewhere in our brain the wires are crossed up, which leads to us not being able to translate thought into speech as effortless...

My stutter is similar to this guy's and everytime I get a block I run out of breath afterwards and my stutter gets worse https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sSZxJRygnZc...

Dude , what kind of stuttering do you most often have , blocks repetitons prolongations ?...

That's a complex answer and varies depending on what sounds you struggle on. For me personally, relaxing they head, face, neck and throat helped me....

I agree with your general sentiment -- I heard Emily Blunt give a Fresh Air interview about her childhood stutter, but she obviously wasn't stuttering or showing any signs of it. I actually kind of fi...

This happened a lot to me. I find out tho that if I almost yell what I have to say, I'm fine. Something else that works for me is that I find it easier to speak when I'm tapping my foot, it helps me f...

I’ve had this technique in my mind, but once I start to block my mind is always so damn stubborn and won’t let me do anything but continue on. ...

Secondary stuttering behaviors are a bad habit that formed by trying to control our stuttering....

Stuttering is like a shitty connection. Even when you think it's good, you never know where the video will block and start buffering. You can hide it, or slow it down by reducing the video quality, b...

Very interesting. I remember as a kid (I’m 40 now) playing piano and there were times when I got in the middle of a song and knew what note to play next but couldn’t play it. I haven’t thought much ab...