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I've been battling with my stutter since I was born. In a few months I'll be a licensed physician. God help me...

I've been battling with my stutter since I was born. In a few months I'll be a licensed physician. God help me... Sometimes I regret going down this path. But I wanted more from life, so I went into m...

I notice that when I stutter it's when my stomach muscles (abdominal wall muscles) contract with my speech. I'd lived my whole life not noticing this. I noticed that my fluent days are when I don't u...

i'm sorry but this statement is highly inaccurate. most speech therapists will agree that pressure in the abdomen/lower diaphragm area is one of the main triggers for (severe) blocks, it is not a seco...

All of the things you mentioned are things stutterers do, they are called secondary behaviors. You really want to nip those in the bud and start speaking without them... you may stutter more at first ...

Thanks for your advice, my body does tense up. I know the feeling about the phone. I try and avoid the phone as much as possible. I am worse on the phone than face to face. I am trying to get better o...

My short term solution: I start the sentence over and see if it flows better. My long-term solution: learning to relax the face, neck, mouth and tongue during blocks. Pretty much, if I know I have to ...

Any tips for my upcoming speech?

Any tips for my upcoming speech? Ok so in 3 days I have to present a speech to my class for English (it has to be 6-7 minutes). I'm just really nervous and dreading it. Last year, I had to present a...

I only stutter on certain letters/sounds. Help?

I only stutter on certain letters/sounds. Help? To start, I work a service job where I go to customers home, and I find it EXTREMELY difficult to introduce myself. My name is Ryley, and it sounds more...

Thanks mate. It's definitely pressure. Right now alone I can say my name (although it isn't easy, I can just feel the first sound is tough for my vocal chords to make), but when I'm put on the stop my...

Haha aww that's so true and it seems you have a good handle on it too! Yeah, my face tends to scrunch up when I stutter and it makes me look so focused that I tend to laugh it off after to try to let...

Tips like these will only make your stuttering worse in the long run. All the head jerking and closing eyes during stuttering also started out like this....

Breathing and pausing is good. But when the effect wears off you'll end up becoming a stutterer who does this weird thing with his fingers when he gets stuck on words, and ignoring the technique can b...

This technique will have you develop secondaries. The immediate increase in fluency comes from trying something new and novel to distract but it's still a temporary and novelty. ...

Why... :(

Why... :( so I was at Starbucks yesterday, and to avoid embarrassing myself, i just grab a bag of popcorn. i pay for it, and they usually don't give receipts so i try to ask for a receipt, but it come...

Tight vocal cords = stuttering (for me)

Tight vocal cords = stuttering (for me) Watch this quick video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xypKNntXJv4) and try doing the exercise and see if it helps you. I was instantly more fluent. Not perf...

Teenager who stutters, affecting my school and social life.

Teenager who stutters, affecting my school and social life. Hi everyone! I'm a student in high school and I stutter. My stutter is not really severe but I do stutter now and then. Especially on ...

Breathing problems

Breathing problems I'll give a little bit of background information first; I had an extreme stutter and several other disfluencies but breathing was not always much of a problem, now that my stutterin...

Phrasing- The way to speak with complete control

Phrasing- The way to speak with complete control I have been in speech therapy for the past 2 years and I wanted to share what I thought was the most important aspect of fluent speech and what has hel...

Sometimes an avoidance of eye contact is a part of stuttering....

People usually just give me a sympathetic look, or finish my sentence for me. I'm a really ugly stutterer so I think it's obvious to a lot of people that I'm not just messing up my words....