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Getting past my Stammer (25 or so years on)

Getting past my Stammer (25 or so years on) **Note there are references to medications in this: they are certainly not an endorsement, far from it.** Ok so I joined this sub and spent a few days rea...

I think do a small talk with as many random people as possible, enter every shop, approach girls, maybe ask them on dates, give nice words to them, use voice while gaming. But honestly Im not sure, ye...

Yes that is exactly what i am doing, i even try to go into negative state when talking to people so that blocks come and when they come i keep my breath intact, i keep on phonating and articulating, a...

2 years ago when I read Bodenhamer's book, I practiced his techniques. It did help me, and I learned a lot from them. What I learned was: * I realized that I don't "need" to switch to a fluency menta...

I usually finish what I’m saying immediately followed by something along the lines of “by the way, I’ve got a stutter. So if I start sounding or looking kinda crazy or whatever, that’s all it is, it’s...

>1.Pushing hard (with lips, tongue, or throat) > >2.Stopping phonation (when anxiety hits, anticipatory fear hits and you go into a little brain fog/fear) > >3.Stopping breathing as well > ...

Its not aging, its a slight glitch that happens , you must have went through some kind of stressfull or traumatic event before/during when it came...just start to observe yourself there are few things...

Rejection is hard enough as a "normal" person. As someone with a speech impediment, it feels 100 times worse

Rejection is hard enough as a "normal" person. As someone with a speech impediment, it feels 100 times worse I went to an all girls high school, so that really didn't help me meet boys. But the key pr...

“The WiFi connection from my brain to mouth is having trouble connecting” “My brain is working too fast for my mouth at the moment, please bare with me” “I can’t be good looking, intelligent AND we...

maybe when you get a repetitive stutter integrate it into beat and then start a freestyle and just roast the person you’re interacting too...

tactful, canned joke to say when stuttering after meeting someone?

tactful, canned joke to say when stuttering after meeting someone? I frequently meet new people for work, and first impressions are really, really important. I am a fairly confident individual, but so...

I feel this immensely!!! My stuttering peaked in high school and while it would come and go, it came back in full force over the past few years. I’m a 32F. For me, I think remote work and stress play ...

I think people say to speak anyways because avoiding talking becomes a habit that doesn't help, especially if you have ideas to share. Yeah when you talk you are probably gonna block or stutter but s...

I really want to be able to do content creation

I really want to be able to do content creation I’ve watched gaming videos for around 10 years and have wanted to do something like it but I stutter all the time and I hate listening back to the video...

I see a lot of people start a sentence with “So” in the past few years. When I started to see it often I thought, “You brilliant bastards, you’ve cracked the code”....

Used to follow these techniques 1. Adding “umm” or “aa” before some tough words 2. Avoiding some words and using synonyms. Although I’m at my i dont care phase for now and i dont care anymore abo...

Idk. How do you tell? Some of my old colleagues, who i was good friends with, said that I breath funny at times and they thought that could be it. My old speech therapist mentioned its to do with m...

Had this stutter at the worst possible moment…

Had this stutter at the worst possible moment… During the job interview, which consisted of three rounds—aptitude, Group Discussion/JAM, and HR interview— I successfully aced the challenging aptitu...

That's a great example of context. You acted as was expected of you, and knew that noone will interrupt no matter what. It is inticing to think that the solution is to change your mannerism, but sadly...

Can you try to use filler words at the beginning of the sentence, like 'uhm', 'uhh', 'yeah', 'oh'... Something like these? Unless it will seems weird according to you....