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Confidence drives fluency. But again people see fluency differently for some it's gaining control over the speech, for some it voluntarily stuttering, for some it's not blocking and changing words to ...

Both are critical, but confidence helps during a disfluency, lessening psychological impacts to create more disfluency (for me)....

is a good question, instead of thinking that "fluency would give me confidence" let's imagine a situation that you can only choose one of the two, if you choose fluency you will never be a confident g...

> Hey man, i saw your post somewhere and iirc, you also have a severe-stutter. How did you make your way into it and improve it? Did you use a few techniquess to help lessen it? or just spoke your ...

In my opinion: Both may result in positive effects: * reducing avoidance-behaviors * reducing overthinking or overreacting * reducing panic responses * reducing your sensitivity towards and increasi...

Can you have a proper life if you stutter?

Can you have a proper life if you stutter? I’m 28 M and I’m struggling to get the career I want because of my stutter. My stutter is anxiety induced and it only rears it’s ugly head during presentati...

Can I ever get a job in communications with a stutter?

Can I ever get a job in communications with a stutter? My stutter is getting to the point where it's getting me down, and I don't think I can take it anymore. This afternoon, I got a rejection email ...

I just had to call an automated phone system to say my son's name and state the reason he wouldn't be at school today, and I felt like a high-schooler who'd been asked to describe and defend my deepes...

Literally almost started crying earlier because all day yesterday people kept telling me to speak up, or they'd ask me to repeat myself. Today I got told that I was "yelling." Maybe this doesn't happe...

How does everyone tackle panic responses when blocking on a feared word?

How does everyone tackle panic responses when blocking on a feared word? Last week many people voted in this [poll](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/12mr71i/what_improves_your_stuttering_the_...

Great reply. So, if I understand your reply correctly, you said that these are your helpful and unhelpful beliefs/attitudes: Unhelpful beliefs/attitudes: * I never really tried to look for answers, ...

Wow, thanks so much. This is really eye opening stuff to me. I've had this since I was about 7, and I think I just accepted that I have this 'disorder'. I never really really tried to look for answers...

My Stutter got way worse after moving abroad for university

My Stutter got way worse after moving abroad for university I was speaking fluently in my hometown, ever since I move to the US to attend university. My stutter got very bad that I couldn’t believe it...

Just think about anything else before hand. Don’t think about how you’re definitely gonna stutter on the word “my” in my name is or you definitely will. Think about the weather. Easier said than done...

I have a severe stutter, probably very severe in my college days ( i am 40 now). Everyone takes me serious because I know my shit and I am dependable. Im not going to sugar coat it, there are challe...

> I learned that the thing FUELING this disorder, was my FEAR towards having new panic attacks. Another great reply! On the surface and at first glance we would indeed say that fear fuels panic re...

>Both these things I can relate to very much. I always feel like I KNOW when I will stutter and when I won't. If I read your post correctly, do you also agree with this approach? Great reply. You ...

When we’re relaxed and not tensed up, fluency comes about so much easier. I get the same way in certain circumstances, weirdly enough, when I’m giving any type of speech in front of more than a few pe...

>never rely on any thought, feeling, experience or sensation in order to decide whether to hold back speech (such as halting respiratory, laryngeal or articulatory muscles) (argument: because it's ...

Yes, a stutter is mearly a little dot in our social anxiety I'd you really think about it that way...