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postr/StutterMar 28, 2025
13 points

This might seem silly but I wanna know

This might seem silly but I wanna know 18M sometimes when I can barely have any stutterers then one moment I just can’t say anything and even repetition doesn’t work my throat is just locked up. I fee...

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commentr/StutterMar 27, 2025
3 points

I used to work at a job where sometimes I would have to make an announcement on the loud speaker and my stuttering would be echoing down the hallways. Arrrrrgggh! It still makes me shudder!...

Speech & StutteringEmotional Experience
Blocks & StoppagesShame & Embarrassment
commentr/StutterMar 27, 2025
6 points

I work a similar job and have a similar experience talking over the radio. I find that when I click the transmit button I feel a slight tightening panic in my chest/sternum area and my throat tightens...

Anticipation & AvoidanceSpeech & StutteringEmotional Experience
Anticipating StutteringBlocks & StoppagesAnxiety & Social Judgment
postr/StutterMar 27, 2025
13 points

PLEASE HELP ! My worst enemy is calling via phone or walkie talkie, afraid to loose my job.

PLEASE HELP ! My worst enemy is calling via phone or walkie talkie, afraid to loose my job. Hello, I need help. I have severe difficulty when talking on the phone or using a walkie-talkie. My stutter...

Speech & StutteringSchool & WorkAnticipation & Avoidance
Blocks & StoppagesEmployment & CareerFeared Words & Names+2 more
commentr/StutterMar 26, 2025
1 points

I stutter and block sometimes so intensly that I cannot speak and my mouth just opens ive been laughed at alot so I definely feel that is why I block more ... especially when speaking my second langua...

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commentr/StutterMar 26, 2025
5 points

Same bro. I am N3 level and live and work in Japan and as an N3 level i should be able to have basic conversations and stuff, which i can do, IN MY HEAD. But when it comes to talking in real life, i a...

Speech & StutteringAnticipation & AvoidanceSchool & Work
Blocks & StoppagesAvoidance & SubstitutionEmployment & Career
commentr/StutterMar 26, 2025
1 points

I’m not sure if you stutter or not, but most stutterers can feel when they are about to stutter on a sound or word. So, often times the mind/bodily response is to tense up before the moment of stutter...

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commentr/StutterMar 26, 2025
1 points

I’m not sure if you stutter or not, but most stutterers can feel when they are about to stutter on a sound or word. So, often times the mind/bodily response is to tense up before the moment of stutter...

Anticipation & AvoidanceSpeech & StutteringEmotional Experience
Anticipating StutteringPhysical TensionAnxiety & Social Judgment+1 more
commentr/StutterMar 26, 2025
7 points

When I was in Japan, whilst stuttering, I had two cases where the listener/worker backed away as if I was about to explode/having a seizure...

Identity & DisabilitySpeech & Stuttering
Stigma & BullyingBlocks & Stoppages
commentr/StutterMar 26, 2025
1 points

So would blocking be like, tensing up extremely when we can't say it?  Whether that or repetition, we can't say it all of a sudden.  Or is it more like an intense fear like seeing a lion in front of y...

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Blocks & StoppagesPhysical TensionAnxiety & Social Judgment
commentr/StutterMar 26, 2025
1 points

To play Devils advocate, it feels more like we can't say anything until it decipates just enough although there are times where we can seemingly force through it with extreme tension but ... I think w...

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postr/StutterMar 26, 2025
28 points

Stutterer in Japan

Stutterer in Japan I am Stutterer and I live in Japan. I somehow can manage to control my stutter in my native language but I stutter(block) so bad in Japanese language. Because of stuttering/blocking...

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commentr/StutterMar 26, 2025
1 points

Totally understandable, but i believe that the more we “want to fix” stuttering, the worse it actually gets. Like shallot mirror described, our response to stuttering can get very intense and advanced...

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commentr/StutterMar 26, 2025
4 points

Thank you! I edited my comment bc I used the wrong verb tense - as I WAS in that situation. After learning exactly whet you are talking about, my blocks are much less impactful. Thank you again :)...

Speech & Stuttering
Blocks & Stoppages
commentr/StutterMar 25, 2025
2 points

>desensitizing the client to stuttering and then taking control of the stutter Ultimately, the blocks will subside Some people like to use fluency enhancing techniques While not a "cure" per se i...

Coping & AdvocacyIdentity & DisabilitySpeech & Stuttering
Fluency TechniquesMedicalization / NeurodiversityBlocks & Stoppages
commentr/StutterMar 25, 2025
2 points

If you feel your stutter is a different way of communicating, I'm not trying to tell you you need to be cured. I'm saying that I do not consider my stutter a difference. I consider my stutter a probl...

Identity & DisabilitySpeech & Stuttering
Medicalization / NeurodiversityBlocks & Stoppages
commentr/StutterMar 25, 2025
3 points

Hear me out. what you are describing is not something we should embrace, obviously. But, you are describing your response to stuttering, not stuttering itself. I’ll explain. I mentioned this in anothe...

Coping & AdvocacyIdentity & DisabilitySpeech & Stuttering
Voluntary Stuttering & ExposureAcceptance & PrideBlocks & Stoppages+1 more
commentr/StutterMar 25, 2025
3 points

Hey! Research in stuttering is still ongoing! Researchers know that stuttering is neurological in origin. There are differences in blood flow and neural function/structure. But, it’s still not quite y...

Causes & VariabilitySpeech & Stuttering
Neurological & BrainBlocks & StoppagesPhysical Tension
commentr/StutterMar 25, 2025
1 points

Hey im new to this page and new to self research. I’m still uncovering things. Do researcher know what happens in the brain when a block happens? And is a block what has happened because we have train...

Causes & VariabilitySpeech & Stuttering
Neurological & BrainBlocks & Stoppages
commentr/StutterMar 25, 2025
3 points

You are…missing the point… Many people who stutter *cannot communicate at all* in any meaningful way. I’ve laid in a hospital bed before for over an hour trying to ask for help, unable to speak when...

Emotional ExperienceSpeech & Stuttering
Helplessness & AgencyBlocks & Stoppages