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This was my life for 35 years until enough was enough. Once I stopped caring what other people thought of my stutter, something changed in me and I began to live my life on my terms, not anyone els...

I experience the same. The less I pay attention to my stutter, the less I stutter usually. If I get aware about it, I stutter more. And getting enough sleep also helps...

Not trying to rail road your poll but I'd say none of those. The thing that's increased my fluency the most is to not try to fix it. General anxiety reduction helps the most. The less attention I giv...

I gotta put myself on mute and let the words work when they want to or not, it happens and get annoying but if I get frustrated that can make me stutter even MORE...

Great post 3-7 really hit me hard, especially 3. I never had a speech therapist because stuttering ran through my family so my parents became my natural therapists (LOL). I think 3 really hits home be...

Chewing gum makes my stuttering 10x worse and makes my heart race fast

Chewing gum makes my stuttering 10x worse and makes my heart race fast is it common?...

I am family medicine resident. The first 6 months of residency were very stressful and I was more disfluent. I would feel so anxious knowing I’d have to present patients on a daily basis in front of a...

Oh, mine is natural and I have had it since childhood. Hopefully you find a better workplace and that improves your stutter. I know certain words where I definitely stutter, and this in turn makes me ...

Has mindfulness improved your stuttering?

Has mindfulness improved your stuttering? [Mindfulness](https://www.stammeringresearch.org/mindfulness.pdf) can **improve stuttering** in many ways: 1. Reduces Stress 2. Reduces the Meaning of unhelp...

I'm an only child and have stuttered since age 4 when my chronic anxiety began. My dad stutters, and I THINK one of my cousins did as a kid (my dad's sister's daughter)....

Fight or flight but most importantly freeze. The freeze response is big for those of us who stutter....

It took daily benzo use to dampen my constant fight or flight state, and my stutter has improved by about 80%....

We are in a constant state of fight or flight

We are in a constant state of fight or flight I find it helps to try and remind yourself stay in the moment, listen to what is being said instead of what you are going to say and truly not care about ...

A block is basically the clamping shut of vocal chords *because we’re are trying so hard to not stutter*. I suspect the cracking voice comes from this too. When I’m even subconsciously worrying abou...

Try not to let yesterday’s presentation make you anxious about todays. Just because you had a bad stutter yesterday doesn’t mean it will happen again. Stressing out about it will probs increase your ...

I don’t really have any advice because I just looked up the same problem on the internet and found your post. Just wanted to let you know you’re not alone and that I’m having the same problem recently...

Besides, minimising alcohol intake is helpful. Caffeine kick in the morning can also help, as does quality sleep and diet. Work/life balance also important ie stress management....

Adult onset stuttering, and autism

Adult onset stuttering, and autism How’s it going everyone? Gonna try to get right into it. About 4 years ago I started to stutter. This was at 28, and I had zero history of stuttering up until then. ...

The valsava hypothesis states that we close the larynx in anticipation of speech and block airflow. https://stutter.ca/articles/2014/07/what-causes-stuttering-valsalva-hypothesis I understand the po...

I can definitely relate, it is very much a viscious self perpetuating cycle. Not sure what prompted it as a child but it certainly has snowballed into something deeply embedded....