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You're right, I've had some bad experiences with asking questions, and now they can be a huge source of anxiety which triggers a stutter or a block. I think my GP would have to refer me to a psychiatr...

well speaking is supposed to be natural. for a lot of people, most of the thinking is how they are going to speak as opposed to what they are going to say. That is when a lot of the fear and doubt com...

I try to 'visualize' the words in my head as I'm speaking. I basically 'write' the sentence/words out in my head and 'read' them, concentrating on one syllable at a time. I find that this forces me ...

I find i stutter and block a lot, If I have to stop/think about what I want to say or the flow of speech stops. And if there's nerves about, worse it is. But times when I'm doing things i enjoy, out ...

I stutter more when I think about what I'm going to sag...

Question about coming up with what you are going to say before you speak.

Question about coming up with what you are going to say before you speak. Lately I have been stuttering a tad more and got to wondering about how people think of what to say before they speak. I used ...

It genuinely feels random for me. ive been trying to figure it out and its tough. Generally speaking, the less in the moment I am and the most aware of the moment i am, the more difficult speaking is ...

Yeah I recently had an awkward exchange with a professor where I had to repeat myself three times before he understood me lol. ...

Yep. I've begun doing that for a few weeks now. How do you read when there are words you're going to get blocks on? Do you just power through them or substitute? Also, when people remark on how yo...

How on earth were you able to block that inner voice?...

For me, I block and stretch mostly. What has helped is relaxing my shoulders and slowing down the situation. Then remembering to suck in a healthy amount of air and let it (and the words) slowly out. ...

What I find for myself if when i can keep calm and in control (not necessarily fluency shaping) at the start, this helps a lot. Once my nervous system gets revved up, its very very difficult to cool i...

Very good. I like the part about him speaking about not being assertive and being a perfectionist. I'm like that too. On the outside I feel confident but deep down I know I am definitely not. I don...

I wonder about your ability to monitor the frequency of *not* doing something (i.e., not stuttering) by the frequency of *not* remembering something (i.e., forgetting). (my point is, how do you measur...

im the same way... i dont have repititions and often forget i stutter but my silent blocks often occupy my mind too...

I wasn't a teacher, but I was an army interrogator for a while. At first it was a train wreck, but after awhile I got used to the situation and stuttered a lot less. Looking back on it now I'd say I ...

I try not to over think things. I am just out of college and being in the work environment is interesting to say the least. I have my good days and bad days with my stutter. Put me on a spot in a meet...

You're independently catching on to one of the first things I do when I first start working with a stutterer. Stuttering is something we do and not something that happens to us. So, what do we do when...

I do pause sometimes before saying a word I am going to stutter on, and I repeat it over and over in my head and when I'm confident I can say it without stuttering I say it, and it comes out just fine...

This is interesting. On the certain words which I think I will stutter on, I am definitely pronouncing them differently. Either it feels as though I am choking on the word rather than letting if flow ...