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Your name came be the hardest thing to say sometimes. It's often in a stressful moment when you meet a new person and sometimes you don't expect it. You want to make a good first impression so you thi...

Heya! I’m a senior in university with ADHD (diagnosed as a child) and a stutter as well. I didn’t have the luxury of finding ways to cope and diagnose it when I was younger, but you’re doing great thi...

I’m not sure I get what you’re asking. Are you asking how my (a stutterer) brain works? I have no idea. For all I know, it’s some sort of magical grey organic computer that generates electricity. ...

I wholeheartedly agree and feel you. I am in the exact situation, I was reading so much about stuttering and stutterers the last 3 years cuz I felt my condition is unique! In all my relationships, ev...

Yea a feel you man, reading outloud is often a set back move. I'm assuming you are more fluent when you by yourself or talking to a pet, maybe you don't stutter at all. And that just proves you don'...

Lean into the emotions of the situation other than fear. When I think too much about not stuttering, it's debilitating. If I'm preoccupied with the rest of the interaction the stutters are just minor ...

Just a quick glance at it - I'm not sure this guy's course is the cure-all it claims to be. There is a bit more research out on stuttering these days about the common genetic markers that we all hav...

the only positive to this, is that they didn’t notice. your stutter might be much more mental than you think....

That's the thing... we can't keep dodging. Substitution is usually advised against. It also tends to add more stress to the act of sentence construction, when you've got several potential tracks runni...

Yeah man... just need to focus without trying to hard. I started a YouTube channel to be more aware of my speech and I have noticed that it helps to listen to yourself....

And do you feel like you're in control of your personality still? It's not putting undue stress on you, having to "perform" in order to be able to talk? I'm asking because this is the sort of thing w...

Yes. I learned early on I don't stutter when I do accents, when I read aloud, or do impersonations. So, I started practicing doing accents/impersonations more and more subtle to the point you couldn'...

Should I just talk and ignore my blocks

Should I just talk and ignore my blocks So I block stutter and before I talk I’m always thinking about not stuttering and while I talk it’s the same thing. Should I just talk without worrying Bc if st...

Speech performance is a complex matter. We behave differently, depending on which context we're in. It's very common for stutter to increase in situations where something is at stake (e.g. a crucial c...

I think the experience of stuttering can be interpreted in many ways. So, that's probably what you're experiencing - the potential for interpretation, and your line of thinking about it. What I mean ...

When I’m having speech blocks I sometimes feel like I’m supposed to start talking on beat in a song/on a rhythm?

When I’m having speech blocks I sometimes feel like I’m supposed to start talking on beat in a song/on a rhythm? I often notice that whenever I have speech blocks there is this subconscious rhythm goi...

Yes! Or when you actually say something perfectly fluent but they didn’t hear you and ask you to repeat it. So much worse when they’re staring right at you intently listening the second time....

When I finally get out what I'm trying to say and the person I'm talking to says they didn't understand and asks me to repeat it. Just makes me wanna get up and leave...

Yea at my job we use walkies to communicate, i speak fine when i don’t press the talking button soon as i do its a different story, its making me think stuttering is a psychological problem...

Does this happen to anyone else?

Does this happen to anyone else? Ive always known that I can read or talk alone and not stutter a single word but i noticed something weird. If I'm talking to someone over the phone or ordering a pizz...