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Challenging yourself

Challenging yourself I (30M) stutter. I have since I was 5 years old. I've never been okay with it. It's always been hard, frustrating. I've felt left out, incompetent, like life isn't worth living, ...

You can change your attitude towards stuttering. Don't hate or plan revenge on people who mock you, work at shrugging off frustrations and perceived humiliation. Keep a detailed diary, see if you id...

what to do????

what to do???? Hey guys i have a problem with stuttering but i feel like i just want to vent to the right people lol so like i have problem with stuttering when im in public i stutter but when im alon...

I’m a young adult, stuttered all my life. It was worst when I was a little kid, but a few years of speech therapy helped out a lot. Now I can go periods of time that are essentially stutter-free, othe...

Worse. I think it’s because the more I’m conscious of the words I’m going to say the more I get stuck on them...

Great point! I'm 23 now and my stutter has been getting a lot worse over the past several months due to being so worried about what others think about it. When I'm my most fluent is when I'm not overt...

> I concluded that any time I forget who I am and I’m taken away from the present moment is when I stutter more often. I really like how you worded this...

Wow this makes so much sense! I totally relate with being in the present moment because then we’re much more calmer. I use to stutter to the point that it would be hazardous to be around me while I ...

Make regular eye contact and s t a r t t a l k I n g s l o w l y....

Same! When I ask questions or tell stories My problem now is I’m thinking about my stutter every time I talk...

Social Anxiety stuttering

Social Anxiety stuttering I've only just learned about the different types of stuttering. I personally find myself in the social anxiety side of stuttering as I can speak clearly and freely when by my...

Well, for me it's that sometimes I start heavily stuttering right before I will breath again. Basically stuttering at the word before I will breath which then goes like this. I am running out of bre...

"Why should I plan my words? I know what I want to say I just talk and the words come." Exactly, we are focusing so much on 'how we speak' and predicting stuttering, that we have little processing pow...

"Fluent" speakers also have many disfluencies in their speech but they can still convey their message & they don't care even if they struggle with some words. They usually also don't plan the...

Anyone tried OCD therapy for your thought that triggers stuttering?

Anyone tried OCD therapy for your thought that triggers stuttering? Stutterers stutter because of: \- neurologic \- genetic \- psychologic. In my experience: "I doubt that I can speak fluently" (th...

I think he means, every time that you stutter, forget that you just stuttered because if you focus on the words you stuttered on then it will increase it, you start predicting stutters. Do you have ot...

“forget that you have a stutter” it literally makes it worse. please never do this....

I'd say for myself and many others focusing all my attention on what I'm going to say is definitely going to make me stutter more....

It is a good tip, it applies to everyone really and isn’t specific to stuttering. In essence, it tells you to slow down, and know exactly what you are gonna say so you can focus your mind on controlli...

For me, it's having to run what I am going to have to say in my head before I say it out loud and if I know I will stutter on a word, having to come up with an alternative word to use that may not hav...