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Bad day at new job

Bad day at new job Hello friends I recently started a new job at a company, the name of which starts with one of my problem letters. I am supposed to call up some people to set up hiring interviews ...

First 2 days of self-directed metronome therapy

First 2 days of self-directed metronome therapy I have a moderate-to-severe stutter. Have done two sessions so far. I started on Monday 16th June. My last and 40th session will be Friday 8th August. ...

High School presentation was probably the worst. But I'm haunted by the millions of tiny moments like someone asking me what my name is and I'm having a block so I'm just staring at them insanely. Stu...

hey! I struggle with the exact same speech pattern you’re going through now. When I was younger, my stutter was repetitions, and it was significantly better than it is now. Fast forward to now, and my...

Oh god this happened to me yesterday in front of my whole family at Father’s Day. Went to see Billy strings in concert and they all asked me who I went to see and I had to pretend like I had to sit an...

Hey man, I don't really have any advice for you but I just wanted to say having all these problems and illnesses such as anxiety, depression, etc. And on top of that a stutter, most people would drift...

I think this is still a stutter, just a different way of it coming out! I sometimes get blocks aswell as repetitions....

i was standing in line waiting for my turn. when my turn has come, i looked in the guy's eyes, then he asked 'how can i help you?'. then i opened my mouth, just like a lion does, for 4-6 seconds, try...

Somebody may hear me talk very fluently especially in a 1-1 conversation and then later may hear me completely unable and frozen to say my name or something else and be bamboozled....

What has helped improve your stutter?

What has helped improve your stutter? So I've (M21) been having a hard time recently with my stutter and it's kind of making it tough with trying to get back out and meeting new people and making new ...

There's always the random occasion and those occasions where things feel more important than they should and the stutter crops up from the doubt and worry to get it all through but...when I'm super co...

The huh's and um's happened to me and others regularly when we stuttered because the stutter is really a reaction to not being able to pass a certain point. The uh, um, stutter, trying to force it ou...

Yea ditto what muttly said. Just visit your local speech language pathologist (SLP) to be sure. But to answer your question, from what you described, I'm not too sure you have a stutter. You mention...

Where are you getting blocks from? Like from the muscles in your jaw or tense block or audible block?? First find out what kind of block you are facing then try to rectify....There are different solut...

Stuttering is neurological in origin. There is a moment of loss of control in speech, and then the stuttering is the tension that one creates as a reaction to the loss of control. It’s like when you...

It is 100% not a vocal chord issue. Stuttering is a speech motor disorder that affects all of the speech anatomy....

I used to. I don't know about you but it happened to me because when I get a block, I would try to brute-force through the block and everything in my mouth starts to leak out because I focus so much l...

I don’t dwell on it unless I have a rare event/situation coming up where I know it will be a problem (work introductions or presentations, for example, but these are very rare). But even without usua...

I think he's talking about a speech technique called a "preparatory set". Just search "preparatory set stuttering" on youtube. OP can you confirm if this is what you were talking about: [https://ww...

Glad you found something that works for you! I pretty much exclusively block on words that start with vowels...