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commentr/StutterJun 29, 2025
2 points

Hi Ok, this is what has helped me. Whenever you start to stutter stop talking. (Forcing through it never works). Take a breath on the exhale try again. Rinse and repeat. If you’re like me and so...

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commentr/StutterJun 29, 2025
4 points

Your description is exactly how i used to think when i was 16. Decades later, I still stutter, but not as much, but i have stable job, stable relationship and stable life. All I say atm is go out of ...

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commentr/StutterJun 29, 2025
2 points

You show a lot of self-insight. It’s crazy how subjective and variable stuttering can be. I do think psychological / current-state-of-life factors can affect it immensely, at least for me. One element...

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commentr/StutterJun 29, 2025
1 points

One of the reasons people stutter is they think they're going to but they aren't. So they pre form their tounge and get ready to prevent the stuttering but in doing so they make themselves stutter.  ...

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commentr/StutterJun 29, 2025
1 points

I'm using voice to text here since it's easier than just typing I had a horrible stutter when I was younger and it lasted until around I was 21 years old. Without going through all the glory details...

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commentr/StutterJun 28, 2025
2 points

This really clicked with me. I’m 44, and just like you, my “stutter” is seemingly brought on by certain situations that make me nervous, or self-conscious. I also have learned, since a very young age,...

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commentr/StutterJun 28, 2025
2 points

i really, really, really relate. feeling very stuck and hopeless about it but glad that i am fairly fluent otherwise. trying to desensitize myself to it by attempting to struggle through getting it ou...

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commentr/StutterJun 28, 2025
1 points

So what exactly in the video that you came across helped you? Just visualizing that you are speaking the words fluently in your mind? Could you explain in detail what was it in the video that almost c...

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postr/StutterJun 28, 2025
57 points

I've Overcome My Stutter by 90-95%

I've Overcome My Stutter by 90-95% I'm 23 years old, male, a successful developer at my job, studying computer engineering. First, let me talk about some situations. I used to stutter. I really stutt...

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commentr/StutterJun 28, 2025
-2 points

Just change your name to something that is easy to say, pick your fights. Or find a phrase where you can say your name easily and just stick to it, no matter how odd it might sound sometimes. Who ca...

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commentr/StutterJun 28, 2025
5 points

steve harvey didn’t cure his stutter. he just found the workarounds and strategies that worked best for him and just kept practicing....

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commentr/StutterJun 28, 2025
9 points

unfortunately it wasn't a YouTube video, but a sub-sort of online course that I found while wandering around the internet. The advice that opened my mind the most and helped me is that stuttering is e...

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commentr/StutterJun 28, 2025
1 points

Hey! I relate completly to your case. I also struggle with letters/phrases, and I also will try to switch out any word that I know I will have a hard time with. I am in speech therapy and it has hel...

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commentr/StutterJun 27, 2025
1 points

You're right. Speaking slowly has helped me. I realized it's not just speaking slowly but speaking more consciously as well. You can speak fast as long as you're more conscious about it. I can go on ...

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commentr/StutterJun 27, 2025
1 points

Hey, first year engineering student here. When I was applying through UCAS and I didn’t declare my stammer which looking back on I think that was a mistake. However, my head teacher told me to declare...

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commentr/StutterJun 27, 2025
2 points

Hi againn! woah :D I googled AAC, I dont think I got the meaning, what is it? and also, the "and the importance of valuing different ways of expressing oneself, whether they are spoken or not." TH...

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commentr/StutterJun 27, 2025
2 points

That is a great idea, what you do! In my talk, I wrote a part about AAC, the different tools that exist, and the importance of valuing different ways of expressing oneself, whether they are spoken or ...

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commentr/StutterJun 27, 2025
2 points

Yes, my father doesn't stutter. In general, he has always had a bit of trouble understanding my difficulties, but he tries his best. I don't see him often (less than once a year), and that comment mad...

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commentr/StutterJun 27, 2025
1 points

This was so incredibly helpful for me to read. It helps me to see my speech from a different perspective…. To be able to reframe what I’ve typically seen as a hindrance into a strength. Congrats on...

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commentr/StutterJun 27, 2025
1 points

it helps to reduce stuttering by affecting neurons in brains, when you speak the fear word again with fluency you are teaching your brain, modifying years of habit....

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