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Fellow female stutter here with ADD; honestly feel it makes it worse when I get excited cause my brain works faster than my mouth😂💁🏼‍♀️💁🏼‍♀️...

Most stutterers do not stutter when speaking alone. Could this suggest that speech execution has been maladaptively conditioned in the presence of certain individuals? What are the strengths and challenges of this assertion?

Most stutterers do not stutter when speaking alone. Could this suggest that speech execution has been maladaptively conditioned in the presence of certain individuals? What are the strengths and chall...

my stutter story

my stutter story so the story behind my stammer, Let me narrate: I have been a stutterer since I was a child but it wasn’t something that bothered me much in my early childhood before class ten or ...

I'm a native English speaker. When I was learning Thai I would stutter a lot more. Even though I knew the word I wanted to say, the pressure of saying the word stopped me from saying it, causing a blo...

I have an infuriating problem.

I have an infuriating problem. I am a naturally introverted person. I have almost no university friends of whom I talk to or meet regularly, mostly online connections. English is also my second lan...

I hate it when nobody knows the answer to a question in class but me but I can’t raise my hand

I hate it when nobody knows the answer to a question in class but me but I can’t raise my hand There was a really hard and advanced chemistry question a while ago that the teacher didn’t expect anyone...

Seeking Advice: Dealing with Intermittent Stuttering and Looking for Solutions

Seeking Advice: Dealing with Intermittent Stuttering and Looking for Solutions Hey guys, I have mild stuttering. Most people I know don't realize I have this problem, but sometimes I experience real...

Pharmacological ways to reduce stutter

Pharmacological ways to reduce stutter Hi, while it's okay to stutter and that it's acceptation as being part of neurodiversity should be normalized, I'd like to bring awareness that some causes of st...

Sporadically can’t start talking but then fine once going.

Sporadically can’t start talking but then fine once going. Hi all, New to the subreddit and wanted to ask for some advice. I am finding recently that when I need to do public speaking to an audie...

we know that for some people increasing dopamine in the brain improves stuttering and for some it has no impact or makes it worse. In addition to dopamine and norepinephrine, nicotine stimulates acety...

"If I didn't stutter..."

"If I didn't stutter..." I'm sure a lot of you have this thought. Something like "If I didn't stutter, I'd be invincible." or just fill in the blank. I had an interview on Wednesday with a school I'd ...

Nope. Having prepared text is the absolute worst thing for me as a stutterer. For me, reading out loud to myself has never proved to be an issue. Get another person in the room and let the stuttering ...

Yes, and it sucks because a lot of what I do can be critical. I work on the blue collar side of ExxonMobil. It's literally my dream job. I've worked industrial construction all my life and had a few i...

The global population of people who are stuttering is roughly 3%. So as you may already know OP that it takes a lot of capital to produce a drug to bring to the market. Unfortunately for the people wh...

IYO, What is the role of phasic dopamine vs tonic dopamine in the speech block (i.e., the failure to execute the speech plan)?

IYO, What is the role of phasic dopamine vs tonic dopamine in the speech block (i.e., the failure to execute the speech plan)? As per the title. Refer to the following research studies. Serious respo...

Let's all discuss this research about dopamine: "Dopamine reward prediction-error signalling: a two-component response" (2017)

Let's all discuss this research about dopamine: "Dopamine reward prediction-error signalling: a two-component response" (2017) Research [link ](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5549862/)([PDF ...

Part 4: **Examples**: **Extinction failure** * Repeatedly reminding ourselves that stuttering might recur (Cognitive distortion: **staying open to the possibility of stuttering returning**) * Believ...

Part 3: **RFT (Resistance to Extinction)** = Various ways we might develop resilience to the extinction process: * **Renewal effect**: The conditioned response (CR) re-emerges when the subject is pl...

Part 2: To continue. I've made some adjustments to the brainstormed model. **Here is the revised classical operant model**: (I've added extinction process and extinction failure) **US** = Social re...

>*"Stuttering doesn't make sense if we reduce it to external triggers. Triggers are like a symptom of stuttering."* **Part 1:** Great reply! I’ve noticed that many people, particularly those less fa...