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The more someone fights against their stutter, the more they try to hide it, avoid words, people, certain situations, the worse their stutter gets. This is because when someone stutters, their brain i...

As I explained below in my answer to a comment, stuttering is a neurodevelopmental disorder so it can't have started because your uncle "cursed" you. It is more likely that you have a genetic predispo...

Sleep, diet, mental state. For me those have the biggest impact on how my week is going speech wise. Drinking coffee/alcohol/pop after 10pm can contribute to my stutter the next day, so I avoid them ...

What is happening in your life? My stutter is affected by my stress and anxiety. Also things such as lack of sleep, not enough time for myself away from things and people to relax. Look at your life...

Started anxiety counseling and exploring the relationship between my severe anxiety and stutter

Started anxiety counseling and exploring the relationship between my severe anxiety and stutter I tried listening to relaxation scripts every night before bed, suggested by my counselor last week. As ...

Note, I'm not on the side of blaming anyone, especially ourselves. In particular, we (stutters) have no fault AT ALL in our condition. I wasn't born with a stutter (no one does) and I didn't have any ...

Relapse

Relapse Hi. I (18) started stuttering around 5 years old and did it quite severely until i was about 13. I’ve recently been relapsing for the first time and I don’t know how to handle it as i wasn’t e...

Things i noticed about my stutter.

Things i noticed about my stutter. Hello r/stutter. I am 17yo male and i have a minor stutter, it isnt not bad enough to cause me any real trouble but its there and you do hear it. These are some o...

One thing that you can do is when he is talking and you notice he is about to stutter (realize how he starts to speed up a bit) just tell him “hey your starting to stutter, can you say that over again...

I can't do this anymore

I can't do this anymore I'm 16 years old. Been stuttering since I was 9, I want to say. Recently got even worse. I don't usually make venting posts like this, or even on this sub, but I can't do this ...

Oral presentations in school.

Oral presentations in school. How do you feel about doing oral presentations in school? Before the presentation, I feel a lot of anxiety. When I am doing the presentation in my native language​ I usua...

I was asked to speak at a conference in March 2020

I was asked to speak at a conference in March 2020 I work in tech and I am a woman. My career really took off this year and I have been asked to speak at a fairly large conference in Budapest in March...

Drug therapy worked very well for me but had some devastating side effects. I used a 2 drug combination of Clonazepam and Citalopram. You can find many studies done on these types of drugs (anti anx...

I could speak fluently for 6 days (So there is hope for you!)

I could speak fluently for 6 days (So there is hope for you!) Here's a bit of hope for my fello stutterers. I am a stutterer, and I get blocks very very regularly. But last year, I had a week of pure...

Need some advice

Need some advice So I've been going to clinical speech therapy for a few months now. I'm about 70% stutter free in the clinic and at home. Problem is, every time I'm outside at work (very friendly env...

The findings do not support notions of dietary influences of ingested copper or thiamine on stuttering but do provide modest support for a relationship between variations in stuttering and self-percei...

To me – when I speak in another language I try to think a lot more before I say things and that can helps with the stutter, if I already know what I want to say and avoid the letters I can‘t get out, ...

I graduated college in 2006. Yeah, fucking exhausting... Asking to go first is a great idea, I frequently volunteered to go first. Thoughts that come to mind are to try to not focus on the upcoming...

Mines completely tied to stress and tension. The more relaxed and confident I am the better my stutter is. If I'm having a bad patch. I often go though a week or 3 where my stutter is a lot worse then...

Try to see if you did something the previous day that might bring you down on a subconscious level. I think it works for me that way. If I do things with a guilty conscience or generally do things I...