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Whenever I try to stay calm my body becomes hot and I can't get a word out. But I don't stutter when I speak without thinking....

Absolutely not. It will piss me off every time. And I will still insist of finishing my own sentence even if I have to speak over them. Everyone who knows me knows to let me finish my own sentence, ...

Probably! I think in the end, it mattered how well do I communicate, my body language etc. If I had been shortlisted from a larger pool of applicants (where the applications were anonymous), then defi...

Yeah it's completely gone. My perspective on it changed a lot since I posted this though. Most people don't know how hypnosis works, it's very mysterious, it's associated with mysticism, however the ...

don’t apologise for the tangent i found it interesting. i definitely hate how media is incapable of having a flawed but normal character throughout. as you said, they always end with ‘overcoming’ thei...

I understand. I’ve been assessed before and told I’m at a 37% fluency, and for most of my life I’ve oscillated between radical acceptance and pits of despair because I know I have to deal with my stut...

I understand where you're coming from, and your feelings are valid. I've wondered what "acceptance" means for quite a while with regards to my stutter. Is it just not caring? Is it constantly picking ...

Tip for Speech Blocks

Tip for Speech Blocks Hello fellow speech blockers. At 23 years old, I've struggled like many of you and come today with something that might help you make progress towards your goal of fluency. A...

It can be really hard to come around to this (and I definitely am not in this headspace all the time), but we can be great communicators WHILE we stutter. There are lots of people who stutter who I kn...

>*Although I didn’t ever consider it a stutter.* Well, it doesn't really matter what you considered it. If he stuttered then and he stutters now, then it's a pretty safe bet to assume he just stutter...

I have been focusing in self acceptance and building up my social skills/confidence for the past couple of years and really I am much happier than when I was focused on improving my fluency. The way I...

acceptance!!

acceptance!! i don't have much to say here but i just wanted to share that yesterday i was on a call with my best friend- who knows i stutter- and usually i avoid difficult words out of embarrassment,...

I guess i dont really think about much when I stutter with people I’m close to. They know I stutter and accept it so I don’t really care when talking to them. When it’s with people I’ve never spoken t...

Do you know what happens? I feel that my brain has gotten used to not stuttering with people who are not close to me and now it is VERY difficult for me to approach other people because basically my s...

Yeah, it's not so in line with current research but then I don't think there's enough time or money being spent on stuttering research to get the full picture. As you say, it could indicate neurologic...

Are you really fluent though? Or are you just able to seem fluent to people listening? People who are born fluent are able to speak fluently without any strategies, techniques, or even thinking abou...

Talk as if you expect to stutter

Talk as if you expect to stutter Most of us talk as if we expect (and hope) to be fluent. This is how most people talk, because most people are fluent, and we copy how most people talk. So then when w...

Cant do it anymore

Cant do it anymore Hello, Ive been dealing with stutter blocks for years now(22yrsold) and it has basically ruined my life. I started really noticing at 14 ever since, it’s been torture. I lost myself...

I'd recommend checking out 'open stutter' on YouTube and also look into avoidance reduction therapy for stuttering (ARTS) - it's about letting go of struggle and avoidance associated with a stuttering...

“Being able to say whatever you want whenever you want is not all it’s cracked up to be.”

“Being able to say whatever you want whenever you want is not all it’s cracked up to be.” My friend said this the other day and it threw me for a loop. I think he was mostly joking. But it’s been on m...