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Obsessed by my name

Obsessed by my name Hello everyone, I've been wanting to post this message for a while. I have an issue that you probably understand very well—it's stuttering on my name. It started two years ago w...

Do you think lee lovett ideology is similar to yours? He also says something similar to forgetting your stutter and 'not stuttering' by using cluches. His principals is that the more we dont stutter t...

Additionally, even non-stutterers often word-substitute, tense, prolong, do repetitions etc etc. So, I absotely don't view them as a problem or any kind of obstacle or to be avoided. They are perfectl...

In my opinion, there are likely many different solutions that lead to Rome, meaning, that many paths might lead to stuttering remission, I think that this is appears to be the case in young children. ...

# You said 'secondary reactions'. Do you mean secondary symptoms of stuttering? Like for example word-substitution (substiting feared words)? Yea, so then you were right. Because inhibitory control c...

Fantastic reply! Hope more people will join the conversation. I agree with everything you said. I think we can distinguish: * complex cognitive distortions that require a certain amount of cogniti...

I take up the task of calling for work. I speak slowly and softly. It comes off calm. I still stutter but I’ve been on the phone often calling vendors so I’ve been practicing a lot. I push myself ofte...

I stutter on my name the most, so I stand in front of the mirror and practice introducing myself to myself in the mirror. I look them in the eye and pretend it's someone else. I do feel a lot more con...

Phone calls! Practicing alone at home does nothing for me because I’m actually an incredible speaker alone lol. I’m a gifted speaker in general (can you imagine how much of a curse stuttering has be...

I read to my kids at night. I find that’s usually enough to maintain fluency. If I get a “flareup” I’ll go back to things I did earlier in my fluency journey which is mostly just more practice talking...

You’re not wrong on all those parts. And yeah I jump around words and usually deal with more blocks and elongations than repetitions, the loud speaker is not my friend. I think I would much rather fin...

I think more jobs turn me down due to my stutter

I think more jobs turn me down due to my stutter I've been unemployed for 16 months due to the birth of my daughter. I had to relocate and quit my job and I'm pretty much starting over from scratch. ...

My job requires me to get on a lot of meetings where I need to introduce myself and as someone who stutters while saying his name, I found that I'm most likely to stutter if I had to start with someth...

Yes. I think it is helpful as long as you stick with it. By doing this you’re releasing the fear and anxiety of speaking that developmental stutterers get as we get older. When you’re little you just ...

Like 1000fireflies, I own it. I think it really depends on the situation and/or who I’m speaking with. I’ve also made humorous comments about my stutter, things like: “sit back and relax folks, it’s g...

That’s not remotely how that works. More importantly, you can teach yourself how to block less....

**So. Basically. I think it's vital to talk about stuttering recovery and deserves our attention.** In my opinion: Traditional speech therapy usually adopts two components: *We can either:* 1. le...

I’ve been where you are… sometimes my stutter would be so bad that my facial muscles and eyes would hurt from blinking and tightening the muscles. It is exhausting. Physically and emotionally. One t...

I wouldn’t isolate yourself. When my stutter was terrible I went mute. Causing my stutter to be worse when I started having conversations with people again....

I use a fake name I can pronounce for picking up food ect. But with people? I just struggle it out lol...