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Hey friend. Are you me? Stress, anxiety and high levels of cortisol can make it hard to think clearly. I graduated in the top 10% of my high school class and I was being absolutely crushed in Univers...
Start your sentences slower than normal, use your speaking muscles delicately, speak slightly softer than normal when beginning sentences and speak on a gentle outflow of air. Ride out breath while sp...
Absolutely true, but they carry habituated thoughts (sometimes subtle sometimes not) that contribute to and activate the tension that causes word scanning/stuttering/blocking etc. People who don’t stu...
You think that people who don’t stutter are thinking about stuttering before they speak?...
This is a great question to explore. Also what is the difference between a stutter and fluent person speaking? What are they thinking about vs a stutterer and how are they speaking physically vs a stu...
tips on doing fluency techniques?
tips on doing fluency techniques? somehow I always forget to do it when im interacting with people. maybe because its so many and I it’s hard to focus on them while im talking. what do you guys do?...
Thanks for your thoughtful response! I'm gonna do my best to answer your questions, and answer them in a way how I personally see them. You asked: >*"One thing I'm not sure about is why I stutter mo...
How would we go about break the underlying urge to try to force or increase tension when speaking? I don’t stutter when I’m alone but even if it’s a recording or some other reason for additional press...
It's like stumbling over while walking. If we continue to try to walk, we continue to stumble and we aren't really in control with so many signals being sent to our legs. It is critical to realise whe...
u/bookaholic4life # You mentioned: >*"There are many cases of young children who don’t display any feelings or negative emotions until later childhood. It's not caused by emotions but exacerbated. ...
>*"Easy onset is the name of a strategy widely used in speech therapy that aims to do the opposite of applying force at the beginning of speech to improve fluency."* Agreed. Here is a description of ...
>*"The development of motor behaviors in speech hinders fluency. For example, when a person who stutters exerts extreme effort to pronounce a syllable at the beginning of a word—when, in reality, this...
Thinking about making a youtube channel but I don't know if I can.
Thinking about making a youtube channel but I don't know if I can. I've posted here before, took it down because I'm shy and I forgot the login for this account for months😭 (apologies for anyone I di...
First of all, I am a people who stutter who also study stuttering, just finished my masters degree at psychology and stuttering, and that's my conclusion after reading a lot of studies, thoeries, a...
I think this is one of those things where if you try to not do it, that's a sure shot way of doing it. It's like spending 15 minutes a day practicing to NOT think of a pink elephant....
Hey man, been a bit but wanna respond. I’m gonna send you a chat request so we can be able to stay in touch easier. Appreciate your thoughtful reply. One of my big problems is that I often define ...
nice to see someone feeling the same way as i do🫂 i dont feel alone anymore. I dont know abt the gaba tho. It isn't available in my area and idk if that's even safe for me (17) haha. If may i ask, wh...
Yeah I have gone through the same thing in school, I have stuttered a lot while giving the annswer which I already knew, I have felt really bad afterwards, the memories still haunt me but the thing is...
I guess one problem is confidence.. i guess you are not comfortable with the word.. whether you will pronounce it without stuttering.. when you have this thought come up.. then you will stutter whethe...
Why do I stutter even though I am completely calm?
Why do I stutter even though I am completely calm? I am a 17f, diagnosed autism and anxiety. I have always had a bit of a stutter problem. However, it usually only occurs when I pronounce something wr...