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Personally, find that I need to prepare a bit but when I prepare excessively I become too focused on what I should say and makes it makes me more focused on my speech. I always try to engage in conver...

My brain works the exact same way. Your stutter might by psychophysiological like mine. We place subconscious value on certain words which causes the stutter a lot of times. That's why names, numbers,...

Sometimes i don't know what i want to say.

Sometimes i don't know what i want to say. There are some times when i felt like sh*t and my brain just stops working. I don't know what to say, how to express. My brain become so unstable that i can'...

Hi! Firstly, thank you for taking the time to share your story. I know your post emphasises not to focus on fluency, however, I must admit I am curious as to how you stopped blocking and stuttering? W...

Same. That’s always been my problem and I’m sorta mystified when (I guess) people just think and talk as it happens. Like I thought everyone knows what they’re going to say it at least a half sentence...

I speak faster than I think

I speak faster than I think I don’t know if this fits here but I keep having this problem of where I’ll be in a conversation and I will stumble over words because I don’t think up the full sentence an...

Stuttering limiting my voice

Stuttering limiting my voice I’ve been stuttering all my life, but I feel like these past couple of years have gotten a bit better. Something that always bothered me, is that I have to limit my gramma...

I guess it depends on the person and the context but generally I don’t like it. If it’s cute then why do I receive way more criticisms about it than compliments? I do know that it comes from a place o...

I think it just means “was my point hard to understand?“ Objectively speaking, it is harder to understand stuttered speech than fluent speech. The intent isn’t to offend....

The reason is probably bc there’s less pressure to “speak normally”. This physically and emotionally removes some of the causes of your stutter (especially if it’s mostly blocks)....

If a stutterer depends very heavily on an almost involuntary escape/avoid habit (using other words, phrases, avoiding responding fully, etc), their name becomes a challenge. Saying your name is one ...

Oh ok interesting, thanks for explaining! I’ve kind of noticed this phenomena already in my own life. When introducing myself and my daughter to someone new I try to say “this is ___, and I’m ___” to ...

A theory I've formed is that having a stutter usually follows you the majority of your life and saying your name is also a consistent thing, so it may just kind of get ingrained into you that you \*kn...

I do not have a solution to offer, but wanted to give you a bit of info. In grad school, when we discussed stuttering/fluency, my professor stated that words that carry more linguistic weight (more si...

A word can be difficult to pronounce and somebody could stutter on that sound, no matter what the beliefs are, yes. Now, the conception of that word with fear leads to more tension, more self-conscio...

I think we all stutter on our names.. it's one of the very few words that you can't substitute another word for and it causes speaking stress and anxiety and almost guarantees a block. I've read A...

It’s not uncommon for people to stutter on words that begin with the same sound as their name. If you think about it, you usually only say your name to strangers, and speaking to strangers is usually ...

My ramblings on stuttering and lexical importance of words

My ramblings on stuttering and lexical importance of words So I've been forming a theory about my stutter and how it's connected to the meaning of words lately. Of course we all know the main issue ar...

Great insight. Today with the Minecraft incident you had the chance of being **assertive.** Meaning expressing youself in a calm and natural manner (opposite to agressiveness) without fearing the judg...

This thought always makes me laugh. I say the same thing about being bald, with hair everyone would have to look at away. Ha. Positive reframe as they say. My vocabulary and memory are very strong...