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Don't let it get the best of you. It's not an ideal situation by any means but there's no way to just tell your stutter to take a break while u do a lecture. I have had a pretty severe blocking proble...

It's hard when every other word you sound like a broken record and everyone has to stare at you awkwardly until the stutter is over then half way in the stutter you realize what you were trying to say...

Same here, hard D sound is rough on me. Example saying Disks or Drives. I seem to try to hit it hard then get stuck....

The thing is that I don't really stutter that much. It's the speech blocks that are the problem. When I was younger I used to stutter all the time, but rarely get speech blocks, and now it is the oppo...

Same here. Also those ugly blocks, I seem to never repeat or prolong....

One of the worst speech blocks I have ever gotten

One of the worst speech blocks I have ever gotten I go to an online school because I am so afraid of going to public school because of my stutter. I have many, many horrible memories of randomly getti...

Its hard for me to say my name... any advice?

Its hard for me to say my name... any advice? I can usually avoid stuttering by prolonging the words or preceding everything with 'uhh'. But its really difficult for me to say my own name. I hate in...

frustration

frustration possibly the worst part of stuttering for me is not being able to defend myself. so i'm staying at my grandparents over easter, i messaged my sibling group chat on whatsapp saying my gran...

Sounds like I've met someone else with a severe stutter as well. Some stutterers are more mild, but you sound similar to me. Mine's very severe, I tend to block and have repetitions on every other wor...

As many people have pointed out here, you are experiencing a block. The speech mechanism is so delicate that the slightest stress can cause it to go berserk. Stutterers are already predisposed to havi...

for me the beginning is always the worst. when i have to expand past my well-rehearsed small talk greetings like "how are you?" and other short converses like that. then i stutter for the first time t...

I used to block a lot and then I tried changing my stutter to where if I feel a block I will just drag out a sound or repeat sounds and words. So far so good, I have blocked almost not at all and this...

I guess that's what we call a "block" (more nuanced description here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttering#Characteristics) Have you tried speech therapy?...

do you guys have any tips?

do you guys have any tips? when i stutter, i don't repeat try to repeat the sound or whatever. it's just that i can't get the sounds out. for example when i have to ask a question, i can never get it ...

My stutter has fluctuated my whole life. It is mostly blocking and makes me talk in a slow way. The fluctuations are pretty random at this point. I'll go a month speaking quite well, then suddenly str...

I don't even think i realized it was stuttering until like 10 years later. He shows almost no struggle and doesn't get frustrated by it....

Yeah, i think so, i was completely fluent back in early elementary, talking, reading and speaking in front of class and then, something went off, maybe all the stress or something, i don't know. I don...

My stutter is mostly blocking, but I do get some repetition from time to time. I find that blocking is the worst form, since it causes the most stress to me. But when you think about it, it's the easi...

I totally agree. Blocking for 20 seconds sounds really rough, I block for a few seconds and that already feels like an eternity....

I block too. I've always had this kind of stutter and I feel like it's more painful than if you just repeat sounds. One thing I've noticed that helps - trust me on this - is to stutter on purpose. ...