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UPDATE FROM OP: I've recently started reading a book about stuttering from Lee Lovett, a former stutterer who hasn't stuttered in over 30 years. It's called "How To Stop Stuttering And Love Speaking"....

Some one please help me

Some one please help me I am a 23 years old Indian guy with little bit of stammering but it can be trouble some times. Next year I am going to take admission is TOP Indian MBA college. My question i...

Dude, do not set back from what want in life simply because of a gifted-hidden-ability you haven't discover yet. Put yourself out there, and never forget that all things you want in life, is at the ot...

My speech therapist mentioned this to me and taught me a technique called "stretching" All you do stretch the first letter of the word you're trying to say to gently ease into speaking. For ex. The...

Biden definitely has a stutter and is definitely an old man. His age and his cognitive decline have surely made his ability to navigate his stutter more difficult I'm sure as he exhibits a lot of avoi...

Do I stutter? Why? And some other questions

Do I stutter? Why? And some other questions So I do think I stutter, but I don’t want to diagnose myself with something without truly understanding it. A lot of the time when I’m talking to people, th...

Hey, I would do whatever career you fancy, and don’t let your stammer hold you back. You’ll find, that especially with consistent practice using the phone and talking to people that it will actually h...

What is a good career path

What is a good career path bit of a backstory, i’m 18 years old and when i was very young i went to speech therapy to help my stutter, which it did, from then to about a year and a half ago i don’t re...

Biden’s stutter is well known by now, so no need to acknowledge it. The people don’t know about it, don’t pay attention to politics that much...

I don’t think so. Stutterers technically still can talk, just have more trouble to verbally communicate. In fact, most stutterers wish they can talk more fluently....

Yeah, most of teams I was in had daily standups for 10-15 minutes to describe current affairs and 1-2 meetings a week like retro or sprint planning. Not much talking tbh but I don't mind it these days...

it's honestly hard for me to come up with positives about it but i guess it's made me more understanding of others with speech impediments; i know how it feels and give them all my attention while the...

To me personally, blocking IS stuttering, so i don’t really see how letting myself stutter would get rid of blocks. If that makes sense. But really interesting theory, that i will have to give more th...

It could be, I am not an expert in neuroscience so can't comment. But I think most people block because they want to avoid stuttering. It's not a conscious choice. Its out of fear. The feeling is of h...

Wouldn't that be a wonderful thing to find out! 😛 I encourage to try and find it. The stuttering experience had two parts, the natural disfluencies and all the other junk we learn to try to not stu...

What best techniques you know for blocking ?

What best techniques you know for blocking ? The title, especially from non-native English speakers, what are your best techniques? ...

i dont know but i feel like i developed a sense of avoiding having to speak in some situations like in front of a crowd etc...

I don't know about selective mutism but stuttering is the latter of what you said. Blocking is an avoidance behavior. ...

Is selective mutism present in most stutterers?

Is selective mutism present in most stutterers? Like how similar is it cause I block and kinda shut down around people I’m not too comfortable around like not so close family and coworkers or is it ju...

I kind of do this with my “customer service” voice. I stutter less at work for sure but I’m also not really speaking off on tangents and when I do I still have issues. If I stick to my “script” then I...