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The way I explain the reason is that I have a stuttering brain. When I am alone my brain does not activate the stuttering process because I am not in a stuttering environment. My brain goes into the s...

When you read alone, your brain isn’t under social pressure, isn’t over-monitoring itself, and isn’t juggling unpredictable feedback — so speech becomes automatic, rhythmic, and fluent. No audience =...

Yeah man - it’s rough and accepting it takes effort. Try to take a couple deep breaths before answering next time. It won’t make you not stutter but it might calm your fight or flight response a bit. ...

The reason the positivity debate resonates with some and not others...

The reason the positivity debate resonates with some and not others... Depending on where you are in life with your stutter, it may be a total mystery while others may have stumbled on its patterns an...

Honestly I got very lucky. I was the first SE for a SP500 company and have an incredible boss who wants to see me grow. My first year was brutal to the point of almost quitting but I stuck it out an...

Why aren't you taking action to alleviate your stress and build your confidence? There are countless methods to make your life easier via confidence building and stress relief....

If I think about what’s impacted my confidence, probably getting my job. 11 months, 1500 applications, 2 rescinded offers. That murdered me. What am I doing to fix my confidence? Nothing. I’m workin...

I think you've answered your own question. Confidence comes and goes throughout our lives as events impact us and confidence is a big part of whether we notice our stutter or not. What are you doing t...

Has anyone stopped stuttering for years and had it come back?

Has anyone stopped stuttering for years and had it come back? I stuttered heavily from 11-13, from 14-18 it wasn’t horrible, and from 18-27 it was something I didn’t even remember I had on most days. ...

My suggestion to you is to seek professional help to lower your stress level. I have been taking antidepressants for many years. It has taken edge off of my tension and stress level....

In my opinion if you stutter when you are alone then you are really tense even when you are not with people. I would seek professional help to lower your tension level. I have been taking antidepressa...

When you speak alone, you’re using your internal speech-motor system — the brain circuits that plan and time speech movements. When you speak to another person, an entirely different network activate...

This reminds me of what happened to me today at work. I was in the elevator and it stopped working midway and it was soo hot and suffocating inside that I started lose breath and panicking like crazy ...

just had to cancel a date because i was so nervous what can i do to get over this

just had to cancel a date because i was so nervous what can i do to get over this before i start this is copy and pasted from my post in r/socialanxiety so if you see another post like this that’s why...

Baclofen

Baclofen I’ve been experimenting with Baclofen over the last few days, and noticed it significantly improves my fluency. Baclofen is a GABA-B agonist which relaxes your muscles. I’ve been taking 20m...

Long term abuse of alcohol can adversely affect a person who stutters because it alters various neurotransmitters in the brain, which for a person who stutters, can degrade fluency even more over time...

How to tell if it's the stutter or something else

How to tell if it's the stutter or something else One of my best friends for 10 years and ex partner has a severe stutter that has significantly altered his life. His dad also had a severe stutter so ...

I don’t think it’s a misogyny problem as much as it being more common in men, and with traditional gender norms being more negatively skewed to men with a stutter opposed to women as men are supposed ...

I don’t disagree with the idea that stuttering is influenced by your mental state. I wouldn’t say “stuttering is caused by anxiety”, but we mostly stutter in the presence of others. A lot of us are fl...

First disinformation is that stuttering is neurological. Saying that is just a cope.. “it’s neurological so there is nothing I can do about it” BULSHIT! You just gave up, that’s what it is. There a...