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commentr/StutterOct 14, 2024
3 points

Hahaha same!! I even stutter saying my name when I'm at home with my partner, which is weird because I rarely stutter when he's around haha. I usually stutter with the a, e, i, o, u, and my name begin...

Anticipation & Avoidance
Feared Words & NamesAvoidance & Substitution
commentr/StutterOct 14, 2024
2 points

Maybe im wrong but i think this is the type of stutter i also have. My stutter isnt repetitions, sometimes i just get stuck. Its interesting because i can have a fluent conversation, specially when i...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Avoidance & SubstitutionCycles & RandomnessHelplessness & Agency
commentr/StutterOct 14, 2024
1 points

Pretty much. Happens everyday. Go to plan what you want to say. And then you can't. Then you don't even want to say anything or get excited to say anything. Any accomplishment becomes something you ca...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience
Avoidance & SubstitutionHelplessness & Agency
commentr/StutterOct 14, 2024
3 points

Weird, my speech got better when I talked to myself more. I used to have full on practice conversations on long 3hr car drives by myself. There were different kinds of phrases and tones I would have t...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCoping & Advocacy
Avoidance & SubstitutionExperiential AssociationFluency Techniques
commentr/StutterOct 14, 2024
6 points

Very interesting. I do think there is often a genetic and/or neurological component to stuttering, although maybe not in all cases, but trauma was certainly what triggered my own, and the neuroplastic...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityCoping & Advocacy
Avoidance & SubstitutionTrauma & PsychologicalEnergy & Biological Rhythms+2 more
commentr/StutterOct 14, 2024
0 points

Yeah this usually does happen to most of us, last week i was in an airport flying back home and this old dude asked me if im getting on the same flight he is, i stuttered badly and he literally just i...

Anticipation & AvoidanceSchool & Work
Avoidance & SubstitutionEmployment & Career
commentr/StutterOct 14, 2024
1 points

I work in a grocery store. One time, a man with what I can only gusse had a thick Jamaican accent asked me a question. I had to ask what he was asking for about 2 times. Still not knowing what he was ...

Anticipation & AvoidanceSchool & Work
Avoidance & SubstitutionEmployment & Career
commentr/StutterOct 14, 2024
3 points

Yes, from early childhood we’ve had to word-substitute. Our vocabularies are massive. It’s assumed that we are even much more intelligent than we are. In reality, I believe many of us are because we’v...

Anticipation & AvoidanceIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionIdentity & Self-Perception
commentr/StutterOct 14, 2024
2 points

Is my stutter behavior based? I didn't used to stutter till 10 after covid came and i started stuttering...

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Avoidance & SubstitutionCycles & Randomness
postr/StutterOct 14, 2024
3 points

Online meetings

Online meetings Hello all, As I have nobody in my circle who would understand I would like to share my feelings here. I’ve been stuttering my whole life. I had ups and downs, I went through many t...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Anticipating StutteringFeared Words & NamesAvoidance & Substitution+3 more
commentr/StutterOct 14, 2024
2 points

THIS! All of this thread! I found my people!! Haha! God, I despise the people in my class who always sadistically asked teachers if we could read literally anything like this because they knew I had ...

Anticipation & AvoidanceIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionStigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterOct 14, 2024
1 points

We have no other choice but to adapt to it and make different techniques for different situations to make it "less obvious"...

Anticipation & Avoidance
Avoidance & Substitution
commentr/StutterOct 14, 2024
0 points

I have similar feelings. I feel shame around my almost covert stutter. there are fluent days and there are difficult days. When I was younger, alcohol and drugs helped me a lot to get comfortable in s...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionShame & EmbarrassmentAcceptance & Pride+1 more
commentr/StutterOct 14, 2024
13 points

Very impressive. So I assume your blocking diminished as your fear decreased over those 4 months? What is it like now to think about stuttering? Is there any residual shame/fear left? Are you ever afr...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & MonitoringAnxiety & Social Judgment+1 more
commentr/StutterOct 14, 2024
1 points

I was talking out-loud to myself by physically making sounds out my mouth. I don’t do an inner-monologue either, to me it feels like I’m ’cheating’. I’d rather not even formate a sentence at all when ...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience
Overthinking & MonitoringAvoidance & SubstitutionAnxiety & Social Judgment
commentr/StutterOct 14, 2024
3 points

I was talking out-loud to myself by physically making sounds out my mouth. I don’t do an inner-monologue either, to me it feels like I’m ’cheating’. I’d rather not even formate a sentence at all. When...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience
Overthinking & MonitoringAvoidance & SubstitutionAnxiety & Social Judgment
commentr/StutterOct 14, 2024
13 points

+1 more thing to add: I also left this Subreddit during my process to not see anything related to stuttering. I did not want to get reminded of anything related to stuttering. So just add that +1 to...

Anticipation & Avoidance
Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & Concealment
commentr/StutterOct 13, 2024
2 points

My friends would call me a walking thesaurus because I could always come up with synonyms with ease. Using alternative words when I sensed a block just has become second nature to me....

Anticipation & Avoidance
Avoidance & Substitution
commentr/StutterOct 13, 2024
1 points

Also I have mentioned today when I started to interact with my sis that before I even asked something I took a big breath and was so impressed because this pattern is so unsual to me and it already wa...

Coping & AdvocacyAnticipation & Avoidance
Mindfulness & BreathingAvoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & Monitoring
commentr/StutterOct 13, 2024
1 points

I read your post last night and since then i maybe stuttered with less than a dozen words, i usually stutter with every sentence i say. As you said when its subconscious i stutter but as soon as that ...

Coping & AdvocacyAnticipation & Avoidance
Fluency TechniquesAvoidance & Substitution