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commentr/StutterDec 4, 2024
1 points

What if we can give our brain a sort of reset? But u have to learn all over again? Learn to speak, but also u have not all memories of the past....

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & Variability
Avoidance & SubstitutionNeurological & Brain
commentr/StutterDec 4, 2024
3 points

You're doing a great job already.    If he doesnt express it it means the world to him to have someone like you in his corner. Unfortunately, there is no cure.  At best some exercises can temporarily ...

Anticipation & AvoidanceIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionAcceptance & Pride
commentr/stutteringDec 4, 2024
2 points

I've had an issue since I was like 5. What really helped me was expanding my vocabulary. Like, I recognize my trouble words before they happen. It's like the game guitar hero or beat saber (or whateve...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCoping & Advocacy
Avoidance & SubstitutionMindset shift
commentr/StutterDec 4, 2024
3 points

I think you'll be alright. I fail to see why NOT stuttering would be necessary in a cashier job. Meaning, people don't expect you to provide perfect speech when they just wanna pay for this stuff and ...

Anticipation & AvoidanceIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionAcceptance & Pride
commentr/StutterDec 4, 2024
3 points

Children have no Default Mode Network (DMN) associated with self-referential thought in the early years of their lives. It develops with age. And so the Lidcombe program works for as long as the DMN i...

Anticipation & AvoidanceIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionMedicalization / Neurodiversity
commentr/StutterDec 4, 2024
1 points

Little_Acanthaceae87 I read your post and found it very interesting, but I don’t understand something. To overcome blockages, did you still persist in producing the sound even if you couldn’t, by forc...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionAnxiety & Social JudgmentAuthenticity vs. Masking
commentr/StutterDec 4, 2024
7 points

You're already supporting him. The fact he knows you're there to listen and support him is enough. Let him research on his own if he wants to. It has to come from him for it to stick. Are you big bro...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionAnxiety & Social JudgmentAuthenticity vs. Masking
commentr/StutterDec 3, 2024
6 points

I feel your pain. I stutter too. It’s either I can’t get words out or they come out so fast it’s like word vomit. I, too, have a job dealing with the public, but I work from home. My boss knows I can’...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentShame & Embarrassment+1 more
commentr/StutterDec 2, 2024
2 points

Get propranolol, it will atleast reduce the physical problems when being nervous during social situations.  If you have the time and budget, get a vr headset, like meta quest 3, to use vr simulation...

Anticipation & AvoidanceMeds & SubstancesTherapy & Professional
Avoidance & SubstitutionMedication InquiriesAssistive Devices+1 more
commentr/StutterDec 2, 2024
2 points

In university in the auditorium, It was really embarrassing, but it's not the end of the world, Stuttering is not a thing you can control I know it's really hard to live with it but you have no other ...

Identity & DisabilityEmotional ExperienceAnticipation & Avoidance
Acceptance & PrideHelplessness & AgencyAvoidance & Substitution
commentr/StutterDec 2, 2024
1 points

People always get irritated when I insist on ordering online, but doing it in person makes me super uncomfortable, unless I have someone speak for me. It doesn’t help that I usually make modificatio...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience
Avoidance & SubstitutionAnxiety & Social Judgment
commentr/StutterDec 2, 2024
1 points

lol. i have opposite problem. I dont speak word which starting with R) but if R in word in the middle i speak just fine...

Anticipation & Avoidance
Avoidance & Substitution
commentr/StutterDec 2, 2024
2 points

Absolutely correct, you definitely know what to say but there's something that stops us from Talking it's very hard to say how it feels, but you definitely know how it is...

Anticipation & Avoidance
Avoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & Monitoring
commentr/StutterDec 2, 2024
-1 points

I'll try to explain it more simply. When I learned speech techniques in therapy, the novelty of learning something new helped me speak more fluently, at least initially. If I trusted the technique and...

Coping & AdvocacyIdentity & DisabilityEmotional Experience
Fluency TechniquesAuthenticity vs. MaskingAnxiety & Social Judgment+1 more
commentr/StutterDec 2, 2024
3 points

Exactly what I’m suffering. The most suffocated thing is I know what I should say in my mind, but I can’t actually say the word....

Speech & StutteringAnticipation & Avoidance
Blocks & StoppagesAvoidance & Substitution
postr/StutterDec 1, 2024
63 points

“I understand how you feel, we all stutter”

“I understand how you feel, we all stutter” No you don’t understand how I feel. Only people with actual stutters understand how I feel. You don’t understand how it feels to be unable to say what you w...

Anticipation & AvoidanceIdentity & DisabilitySocial & Relationships
Avoidance & SubstitutionAuthenticity vs. MaskingIdentity & Self-Perception+1 more
commentr/StutterDec 1, 2024
3 points

The symptoms magically disappear when I’m alone at home, practicing what I *should’ve* said in a conversation or disagreement earlier that day, lol....

Anticipation & Avoidance
Avoidance & Substitution
commentr/StutterNov 30, 2024
3 points

I believe so yes requires intensive focus first to understand what you do to stutter. I personally believe stuttering doesn’t just happen to you but you are doing it to yourself unconsciously....

Anticipation & Avoidance
Avoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & Monitoring
commentr/StutterNov 30, 2024
2 points

:) sounds like what i wouid have done! Find some "middle ground" u both could be "mostly" ok with! Good luck. Side note; scan my profile/pists - i recently was backed into a corner and disclosed t...

Anticipation & AvoidanceIdentity & DisabilitySchool & Work
Avoidance & SubstitutionAcceptance & PrideSchool & Academic Life+1 more
commentr/StutterNov 30, 2024
5 points

Let me be the first to tell you you should not seek validation through people, regardless of if you have a speech impediment or not. Now, for the friends issue, you just have to put yourself out there...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceSocial & Relationships
Avoidance & SubstitutionHope & MotivationFriendships & Belonging+1 more