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I hope you're ready to read. These are tricks that I've learned in years of speech therapy and some tricks that I learned on my own. Ready? Okay so it's obvious that you're in a very agitated state. ...
What has worked for me: - "I don't give a damn" attitude, - focusing on my purpose and role in speech, seeing myself from outside during speech - being angry always works but obviously I can't use i...
The times I looked most like an "idiot" was when my main priority was not stuttering. I obviously can't control when I stutter so I just looked ridiculous trying to hide or prevent it. What helped m...
When I slow down to try to talk without stuttering, I end up talking really slow and fucked up and stutter even more. Sometimes when I get lucky, the thought will just smoothly come out as a sentence ...
A stutter's mind works double time, thinking about the topic and then looking to substitute some words for others to lessen the likelyhood of stuttering. When I can make myself slow down, I will thin...
Do you guys have concentration problems?
Do you guys have concentration problems? Sometimes I feel like my brain is doing 2 things: - Trying to reduce the stuttering by searching for easy words at that very moment and concentrating on what ...
I'd probably just take a walk and try to let the feeling of my mind finally being at peace sink in. All those calculations...gone....
How to stutter less (my story)
How to stutter less (my story) Solving stutter isn't just about solving stutter. It is a lot more complex than that. First you have got find what is the cause of your stuttering. For me I found that...
>You're telling yourself a bonafide part of you is wrong and bad and needs to be eliminated I'm saying it needs to be managed. Not even fluent speakers are 100% fluent so 100% fluency is not a rea...
We're affected by our experience in certain situations, if those situations repeat themselves we're more inclined to react to them and act in them the way we already did. Past experiences have a tende...
How do i gain control and talk slower?
How do i gain control and talk slower? Most people stutter a lot less when they speak slowly, me included. But i have for some reason a really hard time to slow down my speech. My regular talk speed i...
Speaking in a sing-song (or song-like) voice
Speaking in a sing-song (or song-like) voice I'm not going to say "Hey, this will work for everyone; after all if it worked for me, it can work for you", however I wanted to share this with everyone. ...
Part of what makes stuttering hard to deal with is all the thoughts we can have about it - that lead pretty much nowhere, since stuttering continues to elude us. It's not a very meaningful phenomenon,...
Interesting thoughts. Kinda goes along the lines of "Fake it until you make it" which does work for people. Personally speaking, the biggest challenge for me is maintaining this disconnect from my tho...
yeah I find that thinking about not stuttering / blocking is bringing it more into focus in my mind and I do it more....
I've never thought about that to be honest with you. That's a pretty good idea actually. So you are maybe concentrating hard on emulating another type of speech that you are forgetting about your st...
I have to agree with you, I feel like I stutter more when I think about it than when I don't, and when I'm being rather fluent for a conversation then stutter, it's harder to avoid it happening again ...
I have had a stutter since around the third grade, so class presentations have been a nightmare of mine for as long as i could remember. I used to loath it. And still do to this day (I'm 23 now). I ha...
I do this to get through tough plosives I am blocking on. Imagine the next part of the syllable and move to it even if blocked and that will release the block but still produce the sound. Like "party"...
Like many of you, I was born with a stutter, and it had slowly become the dominating obstacle in my life. Although at a young age I was excelling in primary school, getting into the country's top 1-3%...