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As much as I want to, I can't even pick up the dang phone or even answer the questions that strangers ask. ...

I think those are just called blocks. When I get a block my face muscles become tense and I can't seem to move my face at all. ...

I absolutely do. While in therapy one of the first actions were to record me while speaking and reading out loud. I clearly show movements in my mouth and eyebrow area as I stutter with physical block...

All about discussion! I looked up Joe Sheehan and avoidance conflict. Specifically this paper: https://www.stammering.org/speaking-out/article/short-course-diagnosis-and-treatment-stuttering-conf...

Yeah, when I stutter, my throat seems to just seize up, and tense up pretty severely. Makes me exhausted after a really intense bout. The gutteral letters - g, c, k etc. really get me. My time in the ...

That's definitely it for me. I can speak for the most part fine on my own, but I have such a hard time in front of people. ...

Isn't struggle a sign of holding back or trying not to stutter? If you're familiar with Joe Sheehan's approach-avoidance conflict, why would blocking not fall under the realm of avoidance? Also I'm n...

A dysfluency such as a block is not a type of avoidance. When blocking on a sound or word there is struggle, muscle tension and fixed oral posture. It is not fun or enjoyable. People who stutter ...

I swear if someone walked in on me at night they’d put me in an asylum because I’m laying there muttering to myself. I don’t stutter when I’m alone and so I’ll just talk to myself because it’s weird t...

That is true. I was wondering if you personally view it as a type of avoidance. But then again I suppose anything other than clean, open stuttering could be considered avoidance. ...

We treat blocking as a dysfluency in the forward flow of speech. We do not treat it as an avoidance behavior because it is not classified as one. ...

Do you view blocking as an approach / avoidance problem? Because I view it in general as a fear of getting to the sound and holding back. ...

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Alone Do you stutter when you talk to yourself alone...

In the speech therapy community (researched based) blocking on a word is classified as a type of stutter-like dysfluency. It is an interruption is speech the same as a repetition or prolongation. ...

You don't 'learn' a stutter. It's just something that happens, like you said. Blocking is just a way of stuttering. It's not there to avoid anything....

> A block is technically an avoidance behavior. This is untrue. An avoidance behavior would be a mechanism we purposely build to avoid stuttering. Blocking isn't something we choose or condition ...

I block all the damn time. I would begin a sentence, block awkwardly, and then immediately attempt to word switch....

I was responding in response to the statement overt stutterers generally don't do avoidance behaviors. A block is technically an avoidance behavior. ...

Oh no no no. All stutterers share similarities. I wasn't saying only this and only that. There's too much to say here. I'll come back to this post later. I have to sleep unfortunately. And reddi...

Your original comment stated that covert stutterers do silent blocks while overt stutterers have repetition. I was just saying that's super not the case. Overt vs covert doesn't change the characteriz...