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Verbal working memory, information processing, maybe some phonological deficits. Stuttering is probably due to cognitive demands of language if it’s minor,later onset, and no secondary behaviors...

I hear your desperation, and I want to tell you: the real turning point isn’t about speech tricks or controlling the moment. It’s about how your whole system — body, attention, rhythm — holds itself t...

Stuttering is ruining my life.

Stuttering is ruining my life. Stuttering is literally ruining my life. Whenever I go to conversate with strangers (or with most relatives), I'm not even able to pronounce the first letter of the sent...

anyone read Blood of Hercules by Jasmine Mas? The main character has a stutter.

anyone read Blood of Hercules by Jasmine Mas? The main character has a stutter. It's a weird semi-romance dark fantasy-ish book that me and my friends read for our book club last month. When I first o...

have I started stuttering?

have I started stuttering? I just finished a seminar about my masters thesis, and I was nervous and found it hard to speak. I have had this experience before too, but maybe not this badly. There was a...

I noticed my speech is perfect when I do coke

I noticed my speech is perfect when I do coke Before I start yes I know coke is bad and i do not recommend it to anyone, I just do it recreationally. I suffered from cluttering and a mild version on ...

Mental Stutter/Lisp? Medication-Induced?

Mental Stutter/Lisp? Medication-Induced? I’m not sure if this is the right place for this, but I recently have started having difficulty with verbal fluency but only when I THINK words in my head, not...

Presentation

Presentation Just did a group presentation for my community nursing project. I told my professor via email I stuttered to take the weight off but I still was anxious. I prepped and felt okay but when ...

Explaining things

Explaining things Hi guys, I think I'm a mild stutter, but when I try to explain something to someone, i guess i get too excited about what i have to say and then i block profusely and i can't get man...

presentations

presentations hello, im a college student and have a couple big presentations coming up. i have a mild stutter, where ill usually stutter on words that begin with vowels (open, extra, umbrella, etc)....

>" Why would stuttering make someone feel more comfortable?" Back, when I was a child, both me and my brother stuttered. We talked a lot with each other. Whenever I was very fluent and my brother was...

Brain fog

Brain fog I’m 25f, I noticed in the recent years that I’ve been struggling with conversations ,in the sense that when I’m talking to people I’m very slow in forming sentences and in the recent months ...

How to feel confident when stuttering

How to feel confident when stuttering I'm about to go on a date and I keep thinking the date will be more difficult because of the stutter. I say ahh and umm a lot, repeat certain words, take long pau...

Why it's frustratingly hard to explain something??

Why it's frustratingly hard to explain something?? I’ve been stuttering since I was a kid. It used to come in waves—I’d be fluent in some situations and disfluent in others. But over the past couple o...

So if I understand this correctly, the mind knows when we will stutter because it evaluates what's coming next, what will hinder it, and if and by how much it's enough to stop us.  So that is why I ca...

Doctors were already wondering about a possible stutter at 4 years old, according to my health record. I don't remember having stuttered before I was 7, as if this proto-stutter had lessened. From wha...

This is great, hitting all the right questions!  One thing that stunned me while I was being told to change how I say something was when I knew i was blocking before saying a thing!  And when I felt i...

>one day I tried visualizing that I was alone while speaking to classmates… and I was fluent the entire day. That's great. I don't think that would work for me as I've always been hyper-aware of othe...

>*"The question then becomes: how to reduce that fear when speaking with others?"* Yes, exactly! Great question. Perhaps we can desensitize stuttering by learning to accept it (not caring about it), ...

Pretty quickly. Within months I went from not being able to string more than two or three words together to being able to say full sentences most of the time....