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I have been stuttering since when I was about 2 years old. I know what you feel. The engine of my whole life has always been "I have to demonstrate I am better than others". At school, in writted exam...

I enjoyed your reflection about this a lot. I get so caught up in paying attention to the possibility of myself stuttering that sometimes I’m not giving my entire focus to the conversation or the pers...

I would say I’m more of an introvert but can pass as an extrovert because I have the ability to keep conversations going and make jokes. Sometimes I wish I had more motivation in general to interact w...

This is me as well. People don't think I stutter because I make a herculean effort to speak fluently. Doing it in real-time is so draining!...

The only thing that seems to help me is to not think about It. I know that's way easier said than done. But if I literally force myself to forget about worrying about it It just comes out like normal,...

Anyone else a very extroverted individual with a stutter?

Anyone else a very extroverted individual with a stutter? It’s so draining sometimes, I love human interaction and sometimes I’ll practice so hard on planning what I want to say in a social interactio...

This is along the lines of my situation, and often times people will think I don’t have a stutter at all like yourself. I have learned what letters cause blocks for me and change up my wording in real...

Yea, it’s like I used to not have any expectations for myself, in socializing or anything, up until I was about 14 years old. It’s not that I had low expectations for myself, it’s just that I literall...

It's always made my fluency worse. It always made me hyper focus on what I'm saying and my anxiety levels would go through the roof making my speech worse...

I've always seen if I wear headphones for some reason and have trouble hearing myself speak, I tend to be more fluent. This has always had me thinking my stutter is more in my mind than anything p...

Yea, so I think my dad also has some social difficulties and think it may be because he is on the autistic spectrum. My dad often doesn’t try to understand what I’m saying when I say something, but ra...

I've found that less focus on my speech both improves speech and reduces self-consciousness. For a while I was on a speech therapy program which had me focusing on speech all the time. It did my head ...

When I used to work in the mental health field, many of my patients that had psychosis/schizophrenia would use this approach to drown out the voices in their head. I was taken aback with how loud th...

I know it’s difficult! It begins to push us into a hole of being more self conscious, less confident, and less assertive, which all leads to more stuttering and less feeling of entitlement to express ...

It is interesting. I believe anxiety is the biggest factor though because the people I am most comfortable around I barely stutter. I think the people playing a role in theatre don’t stutter because ...

Best thing that helped me is to think about something else when presenting. I’m also a sophomore and I had 10 presentations. Stuttered on all of them but not as much as before. Also this might be hard...

I feel this. When I recognize one of these head-gremlins, I have to literally tell myself to put it out of my head. And then I have to be vigilant to stop myself when I start back on it again 5 secon...

One of my techniques lately has been visualizing the word I’m blocking on in my head. Brings it out quick usually....

I have the same experience. I try to be relaxed and uncaring about how people view me while still being myself and not overly-abrasive. It’s a balancing act, and hopefully I get better with experience...

Maybe we use our brain in one way when we are alone and in another way when we are together with others. Maybe it’s anxiety maybe it’s just malfunction . To me the biggest mystery is; why can’t “scie...