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Talking is highly emotional and instinctive. It's like a direct gate to your thoughts and feelings. A knee-jerk reaction. That's why when most people are talking to each other, they're not even thinki...

I also experience that hyperawareness you talked about. Not just with speech, but with social anxiety too. A technique to deal with that is instead of trying to not be aware (which is impossible), shi...

To put it simply, we don't know enough about stutter yet. But we do tend to know at least some things already, in terms of what is and isn't true, and what does and doesn't work. - What you describe...

Yes I try to speak even tho I stutter. I used to avoid speaking, but now I speak regardless. I guess I am frustrated because I know it's possible not to stutter and speak normally . As I said as respo...

How Do You Implement Speech Therapy Techniques In Actual Conversations?

How Do You Implement Speech Therapy Techniques In Actual Conversations? So I've been reading up on a few speech techniques for stutterers. One really helpful one was analyzing words you have trouble w...

I’m the same. I only have a serious stutter if I’m nervous, sick or tired. Otherwise than that you probably won’t know....

Not quite rational thinking, but then again, obsessions tend to be that way... ;) - Problems outside of stuttering are obviously solvable regardless of the stutter or not. The two routes you have a...

Being asked to repeat something is like this. You could have said it totally fluently but as soon as someone asks you to repeat yourself it just falls apart. Must be the same as name, age etc as how c...

Half the battle is in resisting the urge to blurt it all out before the stammer gets in, and anxiety makes us rush our words. A deliberate calm rate of speach puts you in good stead. But out minds ha...

A stutter is something that is not dependent on a person's mental state typically. You will stutter no matter what, whether you are or are not under duress. However, anxiety and poor breathing will e...

Hurry up cases puts you in panic, because you know that you can't handle them. Then you try to speak without inhale before speaking. But... If you are sure that you can shoot the enemy wherever and w...

My biggest problem isn't stuttering itself, but not being able to have long interesting conversation, when I'm just a bit under pressure my head suddenly is empty and don't know what to say...

Sure, speaking is a skill. In terms of improving it, some might get more out of it than others. That's as it is with all skills. However, stuttering is a quite particular factor in that regard. If yo...

Should Speech Be Viewed As A Skill To Be Built?

Should Speech Be Viewed As A Skill To Be Built? Here's a question I've been thinking about for a long time. I've stuttered ever since I was a kid. I think my stuttering is largely anxiety/confidence...

Recently I was in a phone call and the other person wanted to take my number to call me back after she looked up what I was asking about. After some time going round in circles with her mishearing my...

Self-consciousness - A bad habit when it's more than a small dose

Self-consciousness - A bad habit when it's more than a small dose I'm sure there are many stutterers are like me, in that we can't help but think about how people would judge our every action. Its as ...

Finally a sensible comment instead of "yay he stutters" he says dumb shit sometimes....

It was pretty clear to me that he thought they were standing in opposite positions. It doesn’t help the cause, true, but I don’t see this as being evidence of dementia at all....

Even though Joe has a stutter, the incoherent speech and most of the gaffes are from something different. Call it senility or dementia but he’s clearly suffering from a cognitive decline of some sort....

As someone with a degree in political science and a stutterer myself, there is a difference between Biden’s stutter and his straight up incoherent statements. His “corn pop” gaff has little to do with...