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Speech therapy would help you a lot. Also, blocking is a form of stuttering....

I have had heavy blocks too. (Still have them but they are lighter and easy to keep under control) And ordering fast food is still my biggest fear. I mostly soften the first letter. For example instea...

It has been really bad this past week...

It has been really bad this past week... I'm seriously blocking so much.. i can't order fast food anymore, talk to cashiers or coworkers without stopping mid sentence and have my face and body clench ...

hi guys I have orals tomorrow wish me luck ;)

hi guys I have orals tomorrow wish me luck ;) hope i don’t screw up on this one (edit: I stuttered and got blocks all over, but I got all my points out :D)...

I think if you are able to get through the interview without completely shutting down, then you should be good. I don’t think the stuttering is the problem here. No matter what, continue on with what ...

Well yeah but thats not a unfounded concern on his part. My only real thought is try to think of high pressure situations and then tell them how your speech preformed....

That's not how I implied what he said if youre taking it that way. He basically said, he doesn't want me to choke up and freeze like I was during the interview and he wanted to kind of warn me that th...

I think less struggling and forceful stuttering, which I think of as blocking, is definitely hard to undo but it's made the biggest change in my life. It's kind of like getting to the root or pure stu...

Yes, I think because we speak in a more disjointed way, the natural flow of a sentence is disrupted, with the tiny blocks throwing people off....

It happened today

It happened today Being mentally exhausted seriously causes me to stutter. Anyway we can reduce/stop it from happening?...

I find that just making *a* sound helps a lot with getting past the block so instead of trying to say mount, just try to get *some* sound out and then try to turn that sound into mount through repetit...

I can relate. I block and somehow get the word out but sometimes I have a severe block( like when someone asks my name)....

What if I block in the middle of a word?...

I think block is sort of avoid mechanism we developed in order to hide our stuttering.What really bothers me is this mid block stuttering.Its like I can speak the first part of the word but block on t...

I agree. I use "umm" when I block before starting my sentence.But what if I get a block right in the middle of a word? For example, if there's a word Paramount,I can speak the para part but will block...

I block but I'm silent until I know I can get it out by silently trying to say it numerous times until I feel there is no block. It's not a nice thing when talking in phones, because I tend to get a f...

Is there any way to overcome block type of stuttering?

Is there any way to overcome block type of stuttering? Hey there! I am a covert stutter but every now and then I block on certain words. Overtime my mind has created a fear of these certain words. Mos...

Hi!! I just recently received speech therapy for the first time in my life. I’m 58. The best advice and help I got was to breathe into my first word of a sentence. It helps unblock the airway which is...

I’ve got an Alexa as well it’s so annoying. I thought I’d be fine with it as I can talk to myself but it’s rare that I am even say Alexa. I just cast music from Spotify now as it’s easier...

We have google homes and my son is able to use them. It gives a you few second buffer, and even lets your repeat. He loves it. He’s sadly unable to use Siri though :(...