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this is kind of a weird tip but….if you bear down like you’re going #2, you activate your vagus nerve and parasympathetic nervous system. it sends your body’s attention away from the sympathetic nervo...

There’s a point where the dopamine levels in your brain are at the perfect balance which causes perfect smooth speech. Too high and it causes havoc. Too low and it causes slow sluggish speech. Mastur...

Yes, stuttering is caused by a dysregulated dopaminergic system in the brain, especially in the striatum and basal ganglia (according to PET scans). This is why when you avoid substances which cause ...

Oh that shit would make me mad. We don’t want people to feel sorry for us! And it’s not our parents fault! And speech therapy helps but it doesn’t make it go away. I was in speech therapy from kinderg...

In my personal experience, fear and anxiety usually worsens it. I still stutter when I'm calm too. Sorry for your experience today though. Most normies haven't come across a pws before and don't under...

It's definitely not fear or anxiety that causes stuttering. Those are natural human emotions and that would mean everyone would stutter. I stutter sometimes alone talking to my cat, even though it's w...

Yeah man never been a fan of the opinion that i stutter because of fear or anxiety. Why do other anxious people not stutter then? And why do I stutter when im not anxious? It's people's inability to l...

You’re not alone. I’m an English teacher and stutter more speaking it compared to my native language (Turkish) -yes, it’s ironic that I teach something I have increased difficulty with :) I guess th...

Thank you for posting this. I observe quite the contrary: whenever im overloading on caffeine, i'm significantly more fluent. The problem is, that i need higher and higher doses to keep this effect. S...

Process Engineer in R&D in the US. I do have to present to large teams a lot and I do a lot of hiring work for my company. I don't stutter as much as I did as a kid but Ms and Ns are always hard. I ha...

When I was 10, with severe stutter, every second word, my teacher made us all reply to roll call by saying "good morning Mr blue.." He would say "good morning purple", and purple would reply "good mor...

Phlebotomist! Can be challenging, but mostly it's the same questions and small talk that I can control. After a long day I feel my breath is tired and talking is tiring/hard. Also during stressful tim...

A lot of people stutter due to anxiety and anxiety causes stuttering. It's an evil catch 22....

French is my native language but I have learned English when I was very young too, being from Canada. I'd say I actually stutter less in English but I think that's mostly because the context of when I...

Started stuttering in my 20s, why???? Is this normal??

Started stuttering in my 20s, why???? Is this normal?? Hello folks, sorry if this question gets asked a lot in this sub or anything but I’m 22 and have recently started stuttering a fair bit. I realiz...

Weirdly enough and perhaps illogical, I found facing my stage fear surprisingly rewarding during my stuttering journey. Riding the adrenaline rush and something similar to high or cliff diving. Discov...

Oh, I think the physical part is also caused by mental problem because when losing self confidence or some negative experience will cause our brain to become easily nervous and thus we will have socia...

I think it's both. You can look at stuff like the [monster study](https://youtu.be/h5yPwWybgD4?si=bN3pe7GzA5aSxjwv) it presents as psychological I think a lot of it is our self-confidence and the ea...

Substance abuse

Substance abuse Do any of you deal with substance abuse like alcohol or drugs to help cope? For me alcohol reduces my stuttering and it makes me feel good so I sometimes drink too much ...

I’ve noticed I have been on some different psych meds and they have affected my fluency. Fluency to me is like a game, sometimes the rules change and we gotta change too. I know one guy started one...