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Blocking is not stuttering. Blocking is you fighting the stutter. Your stutter is only half as bad as you think it is....

I feel you it sucks, I’m going through the same thing too while just starting college. Here’s a few tips 1) Don’t beat yourself up for stuttering, it’s gonna happen at some point, especially during m...

Please look at some of my past comments that addresses this, as well as some other commenters that give great advice. I’ve suffered stutter caused by SA almost 35 years of my life before I decided to ...

hii! i started my first day of junior year maybe a week ago what helped me during the whole "introduce yourself" activity in every class was- 1. like the person who made the first comment, using a sh...

I have that issue sometimes too. Is there a shorter version of your name? I have hard blocks sometimes and usually say the shorter version of my name....

What is your preferred way for a non-stutterer to respond to a long stammer?

What is your preferred way for a non-stutterer to respond to a long stammer? I’m on mobile, sorry if the format is weird. I have this customer who is always so sweet, also he’s super cute but that’s ...

Stuttering and rapping/fast lyrics

Stuttering and rapping/fast lyrics I’m just curious if anyone has also heard/been told that learning to rap helps stuttering but you’ve personally found that not to be the case and instead your stutte...

sometimes if its close friends I will ask for them so fill in my words of I am stuggling real bad, like the word "monopoly"...

If you are someone who has come to depend on word substitition, a block is basically a mini-PTSD based panic attack when you come to a word you cannot substitute. So the inherent stress of the curren...

Thank you! >Stuttering when nervous is *literally* the caricature of stutterers. “T-t-there’s a gggggghost\[insert other scary situation\]!” has been done enough. Yeah, I'm going to rewrite his dial...

I don't like it when other people try to finish my sentence or attempt to lead me along like I don't know what I want to say...

The good- I love telling this story. My parents never had much cash and in the 90's getting a pizza delivered was expensive but I loved pizza more than anything. The rule was I could have pizza whenev...

Stuttering when nervous is *literally* the caricature of stutterers. “T-t-there’s a gggggghost[insert other scary situation]!” has been done enough. Plenty of people who stutter actually have hard ...

Do you have a nickname you could use? Believable but starts with a different letter? For many years I introduced myself as Cece. My name is Catherine. The difference is a hard C sound, vs a soft C sou...

How many times I’ve ordered something to eat that I could pronounce without issues vs an item I really wanted but I knew I’d never get out coherently. I am thankful that technology has progressed to...

If you are able to decrease your anxiety, anxiety related blocking and avoidance behaviors will decrease. Decreasing anxiety is unlikely to address repetitions and prolongations....

Speaking coherently but not knowing what to say or how to say things So many times I had the perfect response or something but couldn't say it Only for perfect speech over here to say something stu...

Taking a deep breath and speaking on the release can help me a lot at times. Telling people I am having a conversation with that I have a stammer. In cases where it makes sense I occasionally say a ...

Imo, anxiety and stuttering are not interconnected like that. If that was that case then the cure for stuttering would be anxiety medication and people who have anxiety would also stutter. It can help...

Few suggestions: 1. Say it in the middle of sentence 2. Change your voice in any way e.g. harsh, higher pitch,etc 3. Before say use some tricks like mimic jerking, momentarily coughing, touch your chi...