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Are you unintentionally making stuttering worse?

Are you unintentionally making stuttering worse? Hello, I just got done with my speech session today and my therapist made a comment that made me think. How many of you, when you think about stutter...

yeah its the worst i never spoke unless im sure that i wont stutter sometimes i think the whole sentence before speak and i try to think the sentence as a image in my mind and read from it it really h...

One more thing that helped me... try as hard you can to focus on the context of the situation, not how you are you going to say it. Typical speakers dont focus on their speech in these situations. R...

Moving past embarrassment and mental blocks?

Moving past embarrassment and mental blocks? So for context, I have a block stutter and it just shows up whenever it wants, but I mostly stutter in nervous situations or when I think that I’m gonna st...

nice, but is there a level of uncertainty when talking. this might be from the overall knowledge of material, or the feeling of how others might perceive your disability and project that onto your abi...

The images we create present themselves in mind-body states. In other words if you see yourself on the edge of a cliff about to fall off thatll send your body into a state of panic or if you imagine a...

Understanding the language of your mind, the images we present to ourselves, the meaning we place on these images and certain events etc are all important aspects of understanding the problem. Just tr...

Cold, all too close, faint colours like those black and white illusions you see And yeah there’s fluency after I’ve fried my brain a bit...

I only say you don't have a stuttering problem because once you view it as something "wrong" or something needing to be "fixed" or mind has already added negative connotations to stuttering (alot of i...

Tell me about these intense situations? What goes through your mind before you're about to stutter? Are there times where you're fluent? Are you perhaps fluent when you're speaking to yourself? If you...

Do you know why he doesn't stutter when he plays sports? Because his conscious and unconscious mind isn't focused on stuttering. He's playing a sport, his internal dialog and imagery would be centered...

What causes you to block? Is it anticipating saying something? Is it because you think the other person will judge you for stuttering? When you think about a time you stuttered or perhaps a time when ...

What holds you back? Is it because when you imagine playing those games you see yourself stuttering in your head before you've even given yourself to enjoy the games? Tell me about your thought proces...

Hell no man! We gotta learn to love ourselves first. For all the good and the bad. All the strengthens and flaws. Nobodies better or worse than you. I’m a chronic overthinker so I’ve definitely been ...

Yes, thats exactly what I'm trying to tell you. You need be comfortable with yourself in whatever you're doing. I'm sorry you had to go through 'near total destruction' while trying to push yourself t...

My speech therapist tries to get me to do this. It’s a lot of work. It’s not necessarily just saying to yourself “it’s okay you’re too anxious” “or calm down it’s okay”…it’s more getting yourself to F...

Talking to yourself while speaking

Talking to yourself while speaking Is this even possible? I am talking about literally getting orders from yourself while talking, not during pauses, literally while you are moving your mouth. Has an...

> I have been over thinking it and kind of built a subconscious fear of speaking. I have a big feeling that that anxiety I have built upon myself is the reason for my worsening stutter. Your insti...

First time posting on Reddit, first time even trying to talk about/explain my stutter.

First time posting on Reddit, first time even trying to talk about/explain my stutter. My stutter runs within my family, my grandma from my dads side has a minor stutter and a few of my cousins also h...

For me it’s “thank you” because it comes across as automatic with no thought behind it, and planning my words takes thought. It’s really awkward when I’m talking to strangers....