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I have social anxiety, but it is unrelated to my stutter. It is just me being afraid of people and how they would perceive me. I often forget I have a stutter...

Big difference between social anxiety and anticipatory anxiety in fear of stuttering. Without fear of stuttering I don’t believe I’d be anxious socially. Also, what medication are you on?...

Do you have social anxiety?

Do you have social anxiety? Really struggle to make friends because I am very socially anxious and inhibited, even though medication has made my speech a lot more fluent. [View Poll](https://www.redd...

My breathing becomes faster and i can't think of what to say . Even if I have practiced before 🥲...

Tips to improve stuttering (anticipation negatively impacts the quality of life for stutterers (Tichenor & Yaruss, 2019); anticipation destabilizes the brain connections (Jackson, 2022), unanticipated words of stutterers don't activate the right-hemisphere (Jackson, 2022))

Tips to improve stuttering (anticipation negatively impacts the quality of life for stutterers (Tichenor & Yaruss, 2019); anticipation destabilizes the brain connections (Jackson, 2022), unanticip...

I'm the same way, sometimes I go months where my stutter is not too bad and other months where it would be really bad and I can't even say one sentence clearly. Don't be too hard on yourself. Anxiet...

Maybe in your first language you feel deep inside that you should be on the same level as your peers. Or you experience other reasons that people judge you more in the first language or you have more ...

I'm joining the "you got this" comments! I think we all have been where you are, and we all support you while we relate to your anxiety. The easy way ends up being the rough way in the long run, even ...

I used to do this when I was at school and it would set my confidence back a lot. Not only would I feel bad about not being able to present in front of the class it would make the situation so much wo...

I hadn't thought of this. I had to do 3 presentations in school. The first was whatever we wanted, the second had to be a technical aspect of the class studies, and the third was about our final pro...

If you mean: You can predict that you will stutter and after you actually start speaking you will stutter on that exact word, I guess that is common. At least it happens to me all the time. If you ...

Yes, I think that with ADHD comes a disregulation of emotion, and a self-consciousness and holding back our expression from impulsivity leading us to say things we are later embarrassed about....

Six tips to improve stuttering (replace "I can't do this" with "I may stutter, but that's okay"; acknowledge that stuttering is not a personal failure; focus on prosody)

Six tips to improve stuttering (replace "I can't do this" with "I may stutter, but that's okay"; acknowledge that stuttering is not a personal failure; focus on prosody) Tips: 1. replace "I can't do ...

Awesome! I definitely feel anxiety is one, if not the biggest, issue why people stutter. Next up would be that speaking this way (stuttering) has become such a automatic process - something we need to...

Thanks for your comment! Indeed! First, I was thinking this was just another 'trick', but the more I thought about this approach, is it really trick? I don't think so now. You're simply 'corre...

YES once I accepted it as a part of myself, doing everything that used to make me SICK with anxiety just becomes easier and easier. I'm not saying the anxiety is gone, but I'm able to take a few breat...

I was the same didn’t display any hyperactivity when I was younger! But my stuttering was personally for me due to racing thoughts and not slowing down enough. I take Vyvanse 40mg at the moment and fi...

If a person's stuttering is triggered by anxiety/stress, if you take away the trigger, it causes them to go fluent. My stutter is this way, I am older now, so I am settled in life and rarely get trigg...

Job interviews. I hate them so, so, so much If I ever stutter outside of interview, everything is fine and I can correct it, but it spirals out of control and I can’t arrest the slide in job intervie...

Appreciate it. By no means do I want to sound like I'm far ahead with this. I only just starting seeking help for my stutter. I'm still terrified as hell in public situations. Lol...