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Speech Therapy. The following post has a pretty good description of my experiences and success. I make about eight comments in the thread, covering a lot of ground. Please don't hesitate to as...

Talking in the mirror helped me a lot. Look yourself in the eye and talk. The more you’re used to speaking to someone in the face, the better your speech will get. Most stutterers don’t stutter when t...

I have the throat block too. It’s so annoying when you’re trying to say something and it won’t come out right? For me it makes me want to speak faster so I get out my information before that happens, ...

How do you not think of it? It’s always in the back of my head when I talk to people at my job (I’m a cashier) or when I meet new people...

That is so true and I relate a lot. I used to smoke a lot of weed for my stutter, learned 2 things from it - the way I talk and how fixated I am on my speech. I stopped using weed for it and tried to ...

Do you experience fluency if you are talking to yourself or reading aloud? This was key for me. It made me realize that maybe I had social anxiety and I didn’t stutter as bad as I thought....

So I’m a family nurse practitioner so not exactly but very similar to your role. At first I feel they are concern for the first 2 minutes or so. Once they realize I am Actually listening to them and ...

Agree 100%. So much effort goes towards controlling speech and thinking of word substitutions that there's not much left to go into actually forming a well thought-out response....

Another tip to stay in right headspace is to mentally bucket different conversations into “I’ll never see this person again so who cares” bucket as well the “I will see this person again and/or th...

Another tip is to prep by writing out your ‘schpiel’ or talking points before hand so you can get crisp on what you need to get across…and plan around trouble words. I like to almost write a script or...

Thanks for the reply, I intend to write things down before, and take notes as the interview goes along, it's booked for 30mins, be the longest 30mins of my life I think... I'm going to take the...

So, I am just like you. 18, male, mild stutter among friends, strong stutter with parents or teachers etc. I HAVE been to speech therapy a few years ago, however I stopped because it stressed me out. ...

There are many many factors that can make stuttering better or worse in one language or another. For example, many people who stutter speak more quickly (it's like the mouth muscles can't keep up with...

You said: "As a non-stutterer, I can’t say I ever think about my speaking in terms of fluency, any more than I ever thought about walking in terms of not-limping." > What about this: you DO feel co...

To counter the suggestions (in this thread) that you do your practice-talking alone. Many PWS are fluent when alone (bc stuttering tends to happen whrn you nervously try to stop a stutter bc of fear ...

If you are not paraplegic and an overall healthy individual, what do you think about when walking? Answer: You don't You don't think about anything it's on auto mode. Same with natural speakers I ass...

Sounds like overthinking. Don't read too much into it. What was baffling was moments of fluency and moments of stuttering where all circumstances were identical....

I agree. I never stutter when I talk when I'm alone. When I talk alone, I don't think about my speaking in terms of fluency. Because it makes sense to speak fluently. But when I add a person, then I ...

Hate it when I blurt out a sentence say in a meeting or something and it comes out perfectly but someone else starts talking at the same time, or they didn't hear me so I have to try saying it again. ...

When I presented for work I would always just try to focus on the content, and what I wanted to say. My downfall comes from being in my head saying “ok don’t stutter”. Every time I get in my head I st...