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How to not anticipate words you “know” you’re going to stutter?
How to not anticipate words you “know” you’re going to stutter? ...
Help me out
Help me out I’ve had a stutter my whole life on and off but recently it’s been getting really bad can’t even talk to my own family or my own girl without stuttering bad anybody got any tips to calm it...
Does anyone feel guilty when they stutter?
Does anyone feel guilty when they stutter? I went back to college for the spring semester and I had to introduce myself to the class. I felt so guilty that I stuttered, therefore. Does anybody else fe...
I'm married to my wife who has a stutter and I don't mind it at all. For what it's worth I had a lot of successful dating experience before my wife so I didn't hold it against her when I decided to ch...
Howdy, Im a mild stutterer, but when i get nervous, it increases to a moderate severe. sooooooo annoying, literally I prepared for 2 weeks for an interview for a PhD program and wasn’t stuttering more...
Has anyone felt like they didn’t get a job because of their stutter?
Has anyone felt like they didn’t get a job because of their stutter? Currently have an interview for my first nursing job. My stutter isn’t severe, but it’s very noticeable when I’m anxious. As with m...
Recording a voicemail
Recording a voicemail I'm so terrified of leaving a voicemail when I am calling new people or the doctor's office. It's somehow worse that talking on the phone to another person. The beep just fills m...
Stuttering as a Non-Native Speaker – Need Advice
Stuttering as a Non-Native Speaker – Need Advice I’ve been dealing with a stuttering problem since I was 13 years old. It started suddenly without any trauma and has progressively gotten worse over ti...
Struggling with Stuttering in second language – Seeking Advice
Struggling with Stuttering in second language – Seeking Advice Title: I’ve been dealing with a stuttering problem since I was 13 years old. It started suddenly without any trauma and has progressively...
I have Zero social anxiety when speaking or so I believe. I’ve been very socially engaging in conversation my entire life, 78f, no stuttering at all on the phone or in casual conversation that’s not s...
The pathological state (the stuttering) comes up when talking to other people and not when alone. Hypoactivation or reduced blood flow at rest don't mean that a person cannot talk fluently when alone....
I think lot of PWS have the same issue as you do, and I did too. Long story short, what I learnt is that our nervous system reacts to stressful situations by invoking the 'freeze' mode instead of figh...
Did you try disclosing your stutter? Being open about it in the interview can actually help reduce the anxiety around your stutter. If people know that you stutter, then they know what to expect and y...
This is, unfortunately, a normal experience. I have a fairly mild stutter, and even I had an interview where I shook someone’s hand and completely blocked on their name (something that never happened ...
Just had a horrible interview
Just had a horrible interview My fluency just completely checked out on me an hour ago. I literally stuttered and stammered on 80% of the words coming out of my mouth until the very end when I speakin...
Saying that oxygen homeostasis is impaired is the same as saying that overactive neuroinflammation is the cause of OCD. I mean, there is obviously neuroinflammation in specific parts that contribute a...
"what do you think caused the disruption in the first place?" You're asking a million dollar question. By doing so, you are conceding that impaired cerebral blood flow may be causative of stuttering. ...
Yes I'm not contradicting that; the reduced blood flow would maintain the stuttering due to dysfunction of the neurons obviously. But what do you think caused the disruption in the first place? In peo...
A big mistake I see made often on this sub is that a neurological explanation is used as something that happens before talking and that that would cause the stuttering. I believe it is the other way a...
Just venting
Just venting Today at work, my coworker asked me to convert 8 meters and 20 centimeters in milimeters. I obviously know that but I'm struggling with words that begin with vowels and in my native langu...