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Same, I always try to speak fast which just makes it worse. Speaking slowly and taking a breath and exhaling does help a lot, it just need practice...

Never done the phone call one but I have had friends ready to order for me at restaurants if I'm struggling to do it myself....

Anyone else not get embarrassed from anything besides stuttering?

Anyone else not get embarrassed from anything besides stuttering? I think it’s one of the few positive things about my stutter, though I do still have to look at it with a glass half full perspective....

Thank you for your comment. I will definitely try that technique. Now that I think about it, I always try to speak fast, even faster than the fluent people I know. I just have to slow down. Have a wo...

Also I have to add something here,whenever I read newspaper in front of my mirror I speak so fluently but whenever there is someone I have to talk to or even say narrate the same news written to,I jus...

I have done it in the past where people really just want to know what family I am from, like who I am related to. Works wonders. Also, the more we get fluent in different aspects, the anxiety part of ...

Ha! Thats a really good idea! I’m often able to get away with my last name a lot of the time, if I’m picking up an order or something, since my last name is not at all common. I’m also pretty fluent ...

I feel like the best way to overcome blocks is before you speak, do a small exhale of breath and then speak slowly. If you start to have a block. Stop talking , take a breath, exhale a small breath...

How do I avoid this?

How do I avoid this? Hello people. 26-year-old male stutterer here. My stutter mainly consists of blocks. However, during said blocks, I feel so much physical tension that I re-direct it to my eyes, ...

Does anyone else when having a bad day w/fluency have a fluency “stand-in”?

Does anyone else when having a bad day w/fluency have a fluency “stand-in”? Some days when my fluency was horrible for whatever reason; I would have someone else call and say they were me. I would be...

I did the stutter therapy you mentioned. Focusing on the diaphragm (het middenrif) distracts me from triggers and then I don't stutter during those 10 days.. even when we were outside practicing we di...

Talking in noisy environments requires you to speak loudly. Speaking in abnormal ways tends to be fluency inducing - perhaps in part because it takes your focus away from your typical speech pattern…...

Stuttering less in loud areas

Stuttering less in loud areas Hello everyone. I’ve had this realization about my stutter that I wanted to share. Perhaps someone else could relate to it. I’ve noticed that I stutter way less in loud ...

Yeh man. I'm totally the same. I'm lazy around people I'm comfortable with and it just all hangs out ha!...

I think we all have this to a certain extent. Since idgaf anymore about stuttering it has become easier to do. Once on a party tried to introduce myself with another name to strangers, successfully, ...

In part, but not totally In fact, my stutter is at its worst when I'm totally relaxed and with friends, because I don't think to use any techniques...

Exactly! This is what I went through in school. I feared the line 'introduce yourselves everyone' or 'What's your name' name name name and anything and everything that has to do with me having to say ...

My first name starts with a vowel, I can’t say vowels even trying easy onset. I just go by a nickname....

My name is Anthony and i always get stuck but thankfully I can just use Tony cuz it's easier to say...

I offer a different approach. The problem with “name” comes from your association between your name and your personality as a stutterer. With time it became solid. So this particular phenomena is most...