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postr/StutterJun 23, 2025
14 points

Weird faces while stuttering

Weird faces while stuttering Whenever I stutter, I always make these really weird faces as I'm stuttering, which sucks because I have pretty long stutters and it's always embarrassing to make a weird ...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceSpeech & Stuttering
Avoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & MonitoringShame & Embarrassment+1 more
commentr/StutterJun 23, 2025
4 points

Like at least they’re trying to understand, but they don’t understand the difference between normal disfluencies and having an ACTUAL stutter. And sometimes my blocks are so bad it starts cramping my ...

Speech & Stuttering
Physical TensionBlocks & Stoppages
commentr/StutterJun 23, 2025
6 points

My OPs manager was trying to relate with “yeah sometimes I take a bit to find the right word” and I’m like GIRL I have a physical block that can cramp my arms if I try to force through it 😭...

Speech & Stuttering
Physical TensionBlocks & Stoppages
commentr/StutterJun 23, 2025
2 points

Unfortunately, I don't really have any solutions. I've (34m) fought the same thing my whole life. Do you feel any tension in your neck/throat,chest/abs? That's what gets me. Have you always had...

Speech & StutteringCauses & Variability
Physical TensionSeverity & Fluctuation
commentr/StutterJun 22, 2025
1 points

PANDAS is definitely on the differential, except we couldn't find an initial infection. He definitely had several weird illnesses surrounding the onset but it was a chronic cough and then multiple day...

Speech & StutteringCauses & VariabilityAnticipation & Avoidance
Onset & Life-Stage ChangesStress & Fight/FlightOverthinking & Monitoring+1 more
commentr/StutterJun 22, 2025
2 points

What you said really resonates with me because I am going through the exact same thing. I also started stuttering in 2022 and thought it was related to my anxiety, even though I have had anxiety and m...

Causes & VariabilityAnticipation & AvoidanceSpeech & Stuttering
Stress & Fight/FlightOverthinking & MonitoringPhysical Tension+1 more
postr/StutterJun 20, 2025
10 points

Has anyone overcome their blocks? How?

Has anyone overcome their blocks? How? I don't stutter or block on the word when it's just me by myself. I have no trouble with it by myself but in public, the brain fog hits, I go into flight/fight/f...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilitySpeech & Stuttering
Overthinking & MonitoringStress & Fight/FlightBlocks & Stoppages+1 more
postr/StutterJun 19, 2025
32 points

never again

never again Today I witnessed my struggle in speaking so clearly. Man that's sad. Today I went for a haircut and it was one very extroverted barber( i always avoid him but today I had no other choice)...

Emotional ExperienceSpeech & Stuttering
Shame & EmbarrassmentPhysical Tension
postr/StutterJun 19, 2025
4 points

learned behaviours???

learned behaviours??? i’ve had a stutter since i was around 7 years old (my family thinks it’s because of a traumatic event but personally i think i developed it because of my ADHD) and in the past ye...

Causes & VariabilitySpeech & Stuttering
Trauma & PsychologicalBlocks & StoppagesPhysical Tension
commentr/StutterJun 18, 2025
1 points

2 yrs late to this post but i have the exact same problem with guitar and have no idea how to move past it or what exercises to do. to me if fells like i’m tripping over my own hands??? or like when s...

Speech & Stuttering
Physical Tension
commentr/StutterJun 17, 2025
1 points

Hey! Stuttering usually isn’t caused by anxiety but anxiety makes stuttering worse. I stutter (born with it: byproduct of successfully treated apraxia) and I realized that when I get anxious, stressed...

Causes & VariabilityEmotional ExperienceSpeech & Stuttering
Stress & Fight/FlightSituational VariabilityAnxiety & Social Judgment+1 more
commentr/StutterJun 16, 2025
1 points

Not so much drooling. But more spitting on certain words/letters when l repeat them. Very annoying and mostly l can't help it....

Speech & Stuttering
Repetitions & ProlongationsPhysical Tension
commentr/StutterJun 15, 2025
1 points

I don't see what examples/answers here do not fit my definition that stuttering is likely the same for everyone but their feelings, fears, doubts, etc in a given moment in a given situation and so on ...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Anticipating StutteringAvoidance & SubstitutionPropositionality & Weight+2 more
commentr/StutterJun 14, 2025
5 points

Hey sis, sorry you had to go through that.. It sounds like what that guy said really traumatized you and hit you to the core. I think you might need therapy with a trained psychologist and you need a ...

Causes & VariabilityEmotional ExperienceSpeech & Stuttering
Trauma & PsychologicalAnxiety & Social JudgmentPhysical Tension
commentr/StutterJun 14, 2025
1 points

Personally, I don't stutter when I whisper or sing. However, I do stutter when I read aloud alone or when I talk to children, and it can actually get worse if I'm angry or in an emergency situation....

Causes & VariabilityEmotional ExperienceSpeech & Stuttering
Situational VariabilityFrustration & AngerPhysical Tension
commentr/StutterJun 14, 2025
3 points

Although it's true that stuttering is neurophysiological condition, you can still practice and do exercises to strengthen your speech musculature and improve overall vocal function. Because stutterers...

Causes & VariabilityCoping & AdvocacySpeech & Stuttering
Neurological & BrainFluency TechniquesPhysical Tension
commentr/StutterJun 13, 2025
14 points

Stuttering is neurological in origin. There is a moment of loss of control in speech, and then the stuttering is the tension that one creates as a reaction to the loss of control. It’s like when you...

Causes & VariabilitySpeech & Stuttering
Neurological & BrainBlocks & StoppagesPhysical Tension+1 more
commentr/StutterJun 13, 2025
13 points

It is 100% not a vocal chord issue. Stuttering is a speech motor disorder that affects all of the speech anatomy....

Causes & VariabilitySpeech & Stuttering
Neurological & BrainBlocks & StoppagesPhysical Tension
commentr/StutterJun 13, 2025
1 points

I used to. I don't know about you but it happened to me because when I get a block, I would try to brute-force through the block and everything in my mouth starts to leak out because I focus so much l...

Anticipation & AvoidanceSpeech & Stuttering
Avoidance & SubstitutionBlocks & StoppagesPhysical Tension
commentr/StutterJun 12, 2025
3 points

A quick clarification: I’m not telling you to say the word when your mouth is closed. But say it when you close your mouth not when you open it. Like : When you say (Ma) say it when you close you...

Speech & Stuttering
Physical Tension