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Anyone have success with Toastmasters?

Anyone have success with Toastmasters? My dad used to go to toastmasters a lot and is trying to encourage me too, and I tried going once and everyone was nice- but I could never see myself giving a sp...

I can't help much, but one thing you can do to mask it a little is use Chinese filler words. I don't know what it is in Chinese, but when I was taking Japanese class the teacher liked if we said "eto...

Video job applications

Video job applications I don't stutter much, but lisp and clutter, and this sub seemed the most relevant and alive, but: Does anyone know how to deal with job applications that ask for like "1 minute...

**Example #2**: a young elephant with one leg tied up with a small rope to a pole, recognizes the futility of the struggle to get loose, and stops trying to fight the rope. A belief is now installed t...

Comparing tension to an elephant or hypnotist: **Example #1**: A hypnotist asks someone in a trance to lift a glass of water of the table after giving them the suggestion that the glass weighs a ton....

Additionally, I believe that this can also reduce muscle tension: Reframing demands/expectations to execute speech movements, such as: * Old (incorrect) expectation/demand: *"I apply or rely on musc...

I’m proud of you. Mine doesn’t faze me one bit. I do sometimes make a joke about having being beaten by my alcoholic mom which always yields hilarious responses when they think it’s true but I laugh i...

Welcome! In short, stuttering has been linked to genetics. However doesn’t mean your children will have it....

Do you know the cause of this if it has only affected you the past two years? Could you try repeating common sentences perhaps so you can say parrot fashion? Try saying it in different voices. And w...

Basically this, it’s never been an actual issue with the person I’ve been seeing beyond my own confidence. If it’s a first date sometimes I’ll mention up front that I stutter so if I can’t say a word,...

how do i stop stuttering when presenting in a foreign language

how do i stop stuttering when presenting in a foreign language So I take a Chinese class in school and obviously a big part of it is talking to one another and presenting and stuff like that. I find t...

Say up front that you have a stutter and ask them to bear with you a bit. I suffer from a lot of blocks in scenarios like that with fear of the block making it worse. Being up front with them helps....

# Tips to improve stuttering (that I extracted from the video): * accept stuttering by not caring about it, and continue speaking * stop fighting it * be motivated to conquer stuttering: increase stu...

On calls I always bring up my stutter first, if not 50/50 chance they'll hang up when a block hits me...

I worked at a restaurant and I was stuttering in front of this girl and she thought I was nervous because she was cute and I wanted to be like don’t flatter yourself I stutter for everyone lol....

The Blank Center For Stuttering in Texas talks about this a lot - how stuttering can lead us to miss out on or not pay enough attention to other aspects of communication (such as the example you broug...

Help pls

Help pls Over the past 2 years I have stuttered pretty badly and couldn't even say my name. This has affected my social skills a lot and I was just wondering if you guys had any tips so I can st least...

My current hardship as someone who stutters...

My current hardship as someone who stutters... Ive posted on here a bit before, and in different cases, there will be different obstacles id have to push through. This current obstacle though is compl...

The fact that I got the notif for this and knew EXACTLY what this would be. You’re braver than I; I will still drive up to the office instead of calling. Luckily I get the same receptionist usually an...

>"Our disability is not speaking but communication" I think that [this](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353636923_THE_VARIABLE_RELEASE_THRESHOLD_VRT_HYPOTHESIS_OF_STUTTERING) threshold hypot...