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commentr/StutterJan 6, 2025
2 points

This is where I literally can’t get a word in haha. I want so much to just be able to chime in or squeeze in a joke or something but i have gotten used to being quieter in group settings. The bigger t...

Anticipation & AvoidanceSocial & RelationshipsEmotional Experience
Avoidance & SubstitutionAudience Scale & Group SizeAnxiety & Social Judgment
commentr/StutterJan 6, 2025
2 points

Don’t get me wrong I have shitty days. A lot sometimes, where I don’t want to talk. Today is one for example. I am a security guard at a dispensary and I greet and check IDs, sometimes talk on a walki...

Anticipation & AvoidanceIdentity & DisabilityCauses & Variability
Avoidance & SubstitutionAcceptance & PrideSeverity & Fluctuation
commentr/StutterJan 6, 2025
1 points

* [Plank-walking analogy](https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Plank-walking+analogy%22+%22SHEEhan%22): Anyone can easily walk across a 2-by-4 inch plank placed across the floor. But if it were placed b...

Identity & DisabilityAnticipation & Avoidance
Identity & Self-PerceptionAuthenticity vs. MaskingAvoidance & Substitution
commentr/StutterJan 6, 2025
3 points

For me is my name and I hate it I have blocks when meeting or when I know I have to present myself it is so hard but as dumb as I might look I find that spelling it out or showing my id helps I wish w...

Anticipation & AvoidanceSpeech & Stuttering
Feared Words & NamesAvoidance & SubstitutionBlocks & Stoppages
commentr/StutterJan 6, 2025
3 points

🤣🤣🤣 it’s not funny but it’s quite my story too. Having to say present is so hard I usually raise my hand and say yes....

Anticipation & AvoidanceSpeech & StutteringSchool & Work
Avoidance & SubstitutionBlocks & StoppagesSchool & Academic Life
commentr/StutterJan 5, 2025
5 points

Yeah, this is the same kind of problem i am facing too... I too got this block stutter around 12yrs age and i managed till 12th class, but when i entered to college.. It is becoming severe, i dont hav...

Anticipation & AvoidanceSpeech & StutteringSchool & Work
Anticipating StutteringFeared Words & NamesAvoidance & Substitution+3 more
commentr/StutterJan 5, 2025
2 points

To piggyback off of your statements, finding my own voice was one of the keys to me accepting my stutter. I learned to embrace my dynamic cadence, facial expressions, and gestures and used them to su...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCoping & AdvocacyIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionMindset shiftAcceptance & Pride
commentr/StutterJan 5, 2025
6 points

I think an advice is to tough it out. If you use a speech technique then you know more now when to employ it and what can break it. The learnt fear responses towards words, those are tough. They need ...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCoping & Advocacy
Avoidance & SubstitutionExperiential AssociationMindset shift
commentr/StutterJan 5, 2025
16 points

>i can't help but wonder why I can answer this for you. It's because they don't work, plain and simple. Especially in the direst of situations when you feel like you're knee deep in mud and can't ta...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCoping & Advocacy
Avoidance & SubstitutionFluency Techniques
commentr/StutterJan 5, 2025
11 points

I'd rather speak in my natural way of speaking than use a technique that makes speech artificial and forced. Sure, it might help reduce stuttering, but ultimately I'd prefer not stuttering in my nat...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCoping & Advocacy
Avoidance & SubstitutionFluency Techniques
commentr/StutterJan 5, 2025
4 points

I have doubled down and just talk all the damned time and make people listen to be honest. I’ve been hiding from it the majority of my life and I refuse to let it define me anymore. Is it difficult?...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience
Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentHope & Motivation
postr/StutterJan 5, 2025
6 points

Seasoned stutterers avoiding helpful techniques

Seasoned stutterers avoiding helpful techniques From time to time I meet my fellow folks who stutter. They are bright people with various but decent experience in speech therapy and the helpful techni...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCommunity & SupportCoping & Advocacy
Avoidance & SubstitutionAdvice OfferedFluency Techniques
postr/StutterJan 5, 2025
8 points

Block stutter

Block stutter Just wondering if anyone else has this problem I’ll try and make it quick I’m nearly 19 and have had a block stutter since I was about 11/12, all through primary school I had no problem ...

Anticipation & AvoidanceSpeech & Stuttering
Anticipating StutteringAvoidance & SubstitutionBlocks & Stoppages+1 more
commentr/StutterJan 5, 2025
5 points

yeah in middle or high school i decided this was the best approach, tryna break out of it now but whenever i say anything to anyone at work or school i still stutter like crazy...

Anticipation & AvoidanceIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentAuthenticity vs. Masking
postr/StutterJan 5, 2025
3 points

Apple's "Apple Vision Pro" Gadget

Apple's "Apple Vision Pro" Gadget Sunday 5 January 2025 Happy New Year Everyone, I am looking and sourcing anyone on this subreddit who have used or are currently using Apple's "Apple Vision Pr...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience
Feared Words & NamesAvoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & Monitoring+1 more
commentr/StutterJan 5, 2025
8 points

Only in large social groups where a million people are all talking over each other and the conversation is going super fast, then I tend to not talk as when I pause to stutter, people speak over me. B...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityCoping & Advocacy
Avoidance & SubstitutionSeverity & FluctuationSelf-Advocacy & Boundaries+1 more
commentr/StutterJan 5, 2025
1 points

Do they also ask u what language u speak. Like something i get “english?” “french?” after i fumble but they mean well i guess (i speak dutch)...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience
Avoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & MonitoringAnxiety & Social Judgment
postr/StutterJan 5, 2025
9 points

A language barrier makes stuttering worse.

A language barrier makes stuttering worse. I'm 15 and got my stutter around 4 years ago. I am half french and my dad lives in France whereas my mother lives with us in the UK. My dad has always wanted...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Avoidance & SubstitutionPropositionality & WeightFrustration & Anger+1 more
postr/StutterJan 5, 2025
47 points

Have you also decided to stop talking?

Have you also decided to stop talking? I feel like no one understands me. I'm embarrassed to stutter and I feel like as long as I stutter I won't be able to express myself the way I want to. My silen...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience
Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentShame & Embarrassment+1 more
postr/StutterJan 5, 2025
17 points

Stuttering doesn’t have to hold you back—it’s all about finding what works for you! NEW stutter hypothesis from a stutterer

Stuttering doesn’t have to hold you back—it’s all about finding what works for you! NEW stutter hypothesis from a stutterer This is my attempt to [summarize ](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GGVcq...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & Variability
Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentOverthinking & Monitoring+3 more