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**Example #2**: a young elephant with one leg tied up with a small rope to a pole, recognizes the futility of the struggle to get loose, and stops trying to fight the rope. A belief is now installed t...

Additionally, I believe that this can also reduce muscle tension: Reframing demands/expectations to execute speech movements, such as: * Old (incorrect) expectation/demand: *"I apply or rely on musc...

I’m having a hard time believing that 😭🤣 or maybe she thought that I was nervous talking to her 😂😂😂...

>how would you explain people who learn to speak, develop a stutter at roughly age 3 As I suspect it is a physiological issue within the nervous system (a nerve under biomechanical stress) it would b...

I only stutter in English in my normal accent. If I use a fake accent or speak a second language, I'm fine.

I only stutter in English in my normal accent. If I use a fake accent or speak a second language, I'm fine. I can speak 5 languages. English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, and Spanish. Growing up in Canada I...

We have been fighting the wrong battle.

We have been fighting the wrong battle. Ever wondered why you are fluent when speaking to yourself in a room but stutter when speaking to a real person? Its bcs you can speak but cant communicate. Thi...

I used to engage in long conversations frequently but I would stutter again and again to the point of being out of breath and physically tired of the constant blocks. My stutter remained the same befo...

How to make people more at ease around you despite the stutter👇

How to make people more at ease around you despite the stutter👇 Most new people we meet have never met anyone with a stutter before so you cant blame them for how they act. They're not assholes (well...

I can't speak a second language even though I know it

I can't speak a second language even though I know it I was born and raised in NYC by Polish immigrant parents. That means all my life I was surrounded by Polish speakers. I may not know how to read...

Absolutely, it honestly makes me feel so awkward sometimes. Like my brain just stopped working when my tongue wasn't done with my entire sentence. It makes me feel so much more challenged than I alrea...

Does anyone else just not be able to speak mid sentence?

Does anyone else just not be able to speak mid sentence? So I do have a stutter but it’s not severe, can come out if I’m stressed or anxious or if I try to say a word that I know I can’t say I usual...

I sometimes let myself blur out weird sounds while also simultaneously not ruminating on those weird sounds and for a moment the tightness in my throat goes away but at the same time I don’t have much...

What fluency demands do you have?

What fluency demands do you have? This is my attempt to summarize the fluency demands of /u/Superhero-Motivation Stutterer-list: To initiate articulation, I need these fluency demands or conditions:...

When I’m not sure what the words mean say I’m not too skilled in said language I stutter less I tend to stutter more on more impactful words or sentences cuz ik there more important...

Tips to improve stuttering from the research "The Role of Executive Function in Developmental Stuttering" (2019) (do inhibition, working memory& cognitive flexibility training to ignore irrelevant information, suppress dominant responses, perform faster/more accurate, adapt to environmental changes)

Tips to improve stuttering from the research "The Role of Executive Function in Developmental Stuttering" (2019) (do inhibition, working memory& cognitive flexibility training to ignore irrelevant inf...

Can stuttering lead to brain fogginess?

Can stuttering lead to brain fogginess? I’ve had a stutter since second grade I’m 27 now and a lot of times when I’m in conversations, I will have brain blocks on common words that are small, mostly e...

Such problem

Such problem It's easy to say hi face to face (when the other person is looking at me), my native language is not English, where hi is a little more difficult to pronounce hello on ukrainian for a stu...

Does better fluency in a language lessen the effect of stuttering since we are comfortable with the words?

Does better fluency in a language lessen the effect of stuttering since we are comfortable with the words? I was thinking when we are fluent in a language, we don't tend to use our brains a lot while ...

Request the material in advance and practice the best places to Stop and Breathe. Actually *do make room* for dramatic pauses. You oughtta speak line per line, making the punctuation really stand ou...

Any arab stutterers

Any arab stutterers Is crazy when i stutter in my local dialect but im fluent in formal arabic and English , while people here struggle with english , world is different and complex u found problems ...