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postr/StutterFeb 25, 2025
3 points

What panic stories do you tell yourself while stuttering happens?

What panic stories do you tell yourself while stuttering happens? I'm on the tail end of working through a lot of mental trauma that got out of hand, giving me OCD, daily panic attacks and a couple mo...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Anticipating StutteringAvoidance & SubstitutionHiding & Concealment+3 more
postr/StutterFeb 23, 2025
6 points

Advice for my 4.5 year old with hard blocks starting a sentence

Advice for my 4.5 year old with hard blocks starting a sentence I came here for advice from those who have had hard blocks as we haven’t yet been able to find a qualified speech therapist for my 4.5 y...

Anticipation & AvoidanceSpeech & Stuttering
Feared Words & NamesAvoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & Monitoring+3 more
postr/StutterFeb 23, 2025
1 points

Stutter shaping your identity

Stutter shaping your identity Hi, does anyone feel that there stutter has significantly shaped part of there identity. People who have had it young, do you feel you lead a fulfilling life without bei...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience
Avoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & MonitoringShame & Embarrassment+3 more
commentr/StutterFeb 23, 2025
10 points

I don’t stutter when I am reading a book and talking with myself either. But when I was a kid, my speaking was so much worse. Again I was mildly stutter when I am reading. For me both thinking about ...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience
Anticipating StutteringOverthinking & MonitoringAnxiety & Social Judgment
commentr/StutterFeb 22, 2025
1 points

I've only made the correlation because my mom has pointed it out, I guess she knows my stuttering face super well lol...

Anticipation & Avoidance
Overthinking & Monitoring
commentr/StutterFeb 22, 2025
1 points

It just happened gradually at least a decade ago. 🤷‍♂️ My earliest memory of it is 4th grade. 🤔 It could've been earlier, but I never noticed it then because I didn't have self-awareness yet....

Speech & StutteringAnticipation & Avoidance
Onset & Life-Stage ChangesOverthinking & Monitoring
commentr/StutterFeb 22, 2025
2 points

My stutter is mostly mild. It was worse as a child and parts of my teen years. I felt is was completely at random despite what others said. And factoring in the ease I can become dysregulated from ...

Causes & VariabilitySpeech & StutteringAnticipation & Avoidance
Cycles & RandomnessPhysical TensionOverthinking & Monitoring
commentr/StutterFeb 22, 2025
1 points

Honestly 100% agree. I’ve grown to embrace my stutter as a 25 year old 😅 it’s definitely gotten better at work especially but if I have to repeat myself that’s when my brain just shuts off 😂😂...

Identity & DisabilityAnticipation & Avoidance
Acceptance & PrideOverthinking & Monitoring
postr/StutterFeb 22, 2025
0 points

Masturbation and stutter?

Masturbation and stutter? I think when our neurotransmitters (stored inside axon-a cable like extension of a neuron) gets released, so it gives our brain some heavy chill which means a stutterer might...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & Variability
Overthinking & MonitoringStress & Fight/Flight
commentr/StutterFeb 22, 2025
2 points

I honestly am better at listening to people stutter now. Part of my job is editing my own podcast, and hearing myself stutter is always really hard though....

Anticipation & Avoidance
Hiding & ConcealmentOverthinking & Monitoring
postr/StutterFeb 22, 2025
7 points

Struggling with Blocks and Stuttering-Looking for Help

Struggling with Blocks and Stuttering-Looking for Help Hello everyone, I want to talk about my problem, and I hope someone here has a solution for it. I've been stuttering since I was three years old...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & Variability
Anticipating StutteringFeared Words & NamesAvoidance & Substitution+3 more
commentr/StutterFeb 21, 2025
2 points

I know what you mean, but I think it's a result of his odd disjointed way of talking. He seems to sort of think and talk out loud, and change his mind about what he's going to say. It could be a mask...

Anticipation & Avoidance
Avoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & Monitoring
commentr/StutterFeb 21, 2025
1 points

Yea, this condition is kind of a spectrum, I really suggest looking into it. There is a guy on this sub (Cam’t remember his name) but he had posted a study showing that a large amount of people who st...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Overthinking & MonitoringPropositionality & WeightHelplessness & Agency+1 more
commentr/StutterFeb 21, 2025
1 points

Thank you!! :) I’m sorry for responding so late, but I really appreciate what you have told me. Yes omg, the terminology is the bane of my existence man, this class has me sweating at 8:35am lmao. Alt...

Coping & AdvocacyAnticipation & Avoidance
Fluency TechniquesOverthinking & Monitoring
postr/StutterFeb 21, 2025
5 points

Need Help with Stuttering

Need Help with Stuttering For the context I don't know exactly what my issue is as I've never been to a specialist but since my problem has started to reappear I am planning to see one. I stutter a...

Anticipation & AvoidanceSpeech & Stuttering
Avoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & MonitoringBlocks & Stoppages
commentr/stutteringFeb 21, 2025
1 points

Yes I'm trying now to slow down my thoughts so I can keep up with them... it's helps a little...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCoping & Advocacy
Overthinking & MonitoringFluency Techniques
commentr/StutterFeb 20, 2025
2 points

 I'll just say I haven't had speech therapy in 15 years, but I did recently go to a speech center to see what was new in the stuttering world, and the approach that's gaining a lot of traction is Avoi...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCoping & AdvocacyEmotional Experience
Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentOverthinking & Monitoring+3 more
commentr/StutterFeb 20, 2025
1 points

i’ve learned at work especially on the phone to speak firmly and confidently and my stutter goes away. Not all the time especially if it’s an elder and I have to repeat myself then it comes back. At t...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityMeds & Substances
Overthinking & MonitoringSeverity & FluctuationStimulants & Caffeine
commentr/StutterFeb 20, 2025
8 points

this is a mental hurdle that it takes time to overcome...at least for me it was: The vast majority of people don't give a sh\*t if you stutter or not....

Anticipation & AvoidanceIdentity & DisabilityEmotional Experience
Overthinking & MonitoringAcceptance & PrideHope & Motivation
commentr/StutterFeb 20, 2025
1 points

It’s soo exhausting but recently I try to read out loud to basically get used to the sound of my own voice and help with slowing down when I speak. I stay alone and mostly work from home so I hardly t...

Anticipation & AvoidanceIdentity & DisabilitySocial & Relationships
Overthinking & MonitoringIdentity & Self-PerceptionQuality of Life