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When I was a kid I had a repetitious stammer from hell. Then it slowly evolved into blocks, false starts, and mispronunciation of words. But it never fully went away for me....

Robot talking beats not talking, but it is possible to work on blocking so that you can stutter forward. ...

If your condition is mainly repetition than I can understand. But for me it's mostly blocks so a robot voice beats not talking at all. LOL...

Why? That's actually a very good technique. Sounding like a robot sure beats blocking and fumbling over words....

Damn, block on every word is pretty tough man. I keep relapsing aswell man, i need a new course soon. But i think it helps having like a hard way to travel, knowing it its the right way, instead of bl...

I literally block on every single word which is a huge handicap. I've done McGuire but I find it hard to maintain the technique. I keep relapsing. ...

woah, pretty intense. Did you try and fight the order? What an a-hole that cop was. You should consider writing to the head of his department and ask him to have some sensitisation seminars for such t...

Yep the same thing happens to me. So one fluency involves linking the words together, and that's what I'm suggesting here. Once you have a little airflow coming out it can be easier to roll into your ...

I frequently have a speech block right before my name for some reason. The one thing that defines you and usually the first thing a person asks you leads to a moment of potential embarrassment and an ...

The weird thing is I'm generally OK with telling people I have a stutter, I'm just terrified or ashamed or some shit of actually stuttering in front of people. Most the time when I tell people they in...

Same here with the "fluent when angry" thing. I had an old co-worker who would annoy me just to get me to finish my sentence. Rarely get blocks anymore, it's more just trouble starting a word....

I once got given a section 5 public order for swearing at a police officer after he refused to believe that I had a stutter. He pulled me over on my pushbike after I had cycled past a lollypop lady (...

I was on a panel at ComicCon. The first thing the host asked was for me to say my name for the audience. I always stutter on my name, very badly. A couple hundred people watched me block so badly that...

I was at Starbucks and I wanted to order something, I forgot what it was, but I was standing there for 45 seconds trying to sat what I wanted. The barista was really trying to be nice, but I could tel...

I usually get that treatment too, everybody else is type A personality. I guess I stutter a lot more if I'm being questioned, or if something is equally stressful. Sometimes I will just block really b...

had a group interview for a cinema job, everyone had to stand up and introduce themselves, i got up and froze for a good 5 second while everyone stared at me, then i finally said my name and stuttered...

Just had a Skype interview for a research technician job at PSU on Friday. The interviewer knew of me, but idk if he knew I stutter. Wherever I have a block I have this tick to turn my head and look ...

Stuttering Horror Stories?

Stuttering Horror Stories? I'm a moderate stutterer with blocks in hard sounding consonants such as the letter 'P.' I have one experience that stands out in my mind. I was ordering food in front of a...

I'm more of a blocker myself, and when I'm stuck on a word and I'm in a situation where I can't use a different word for the same meaning.. things get horrible. Sometimes my face contorts, sometimes ...

I had a job interview last week, got accepted and had my first "working day" today. Stuttered while asking pretty much every customer if they wanted a bag, but apart from that, it went well :) ...