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I have control of my stutter 80-90% of the time. What that means to me is that if I stutter, I stay composed and continue with limited blocks going forward. There are hours and the odd day where I los...

Many of our speaking environments include strangers. If you have a covert stutter, your listener won’t even know that avoiding eye contact or unexpected pauses are how your stutter presents. We ne...

I'm 40 now (m) The Netherlands. I never stutter anymore. In highschool i couldn't even speak. I sing and this helped. I still have fear of speaking. Everybody tells me they cannot hear i stuttered....

Let us agree to disagree....

I found relief from stuttering when I discovered that my brain is wired differently than a fluent brain. When I came across the research on the Valsalva response I was able to achieve fluency. I neede...

"Old age"... You're 25! I guess that makes me (late 30s) decrepit, lol. This seems like a very drastic change. I commend you wanting to work on your stutter. I am almost 40 and have mostly been ignor...

You are amazing! I am a speech-language pathologist and have the exact same mentality. Stuttering is normalized in my space and whenever I visit other spaces. Crazy how little reactions you get ...

Stop reading and just roll with the punches...

For those of you who managed to control their stutters, how did you do it? How long did it take?

For those of you who managed to control their stutters, how did you do it? How long did it take? I'm literally thinking of dropping out of university, going back to my hometown work watever job, to ge...

I tune into my solar plexus area. Notice any tension, take a few slow breaths if needed. Be positive about what I am going to say. If I stammer, that's ok too...

I’m a stuttering lawyer. I say what I want when I want to. I stutter in almost every sentence. And I still go to court in front of a judge. And you know how I do that? I’ve accepted my stutter. I do...

Wow…. We are on the exact same page there. 🙏...

Exactly...

You can absolutely work on reducing your stuttering, using fluency techniques if you need to, or masking it if you can. The problem is that stuttering is a neurological disorder—so you'll never be com...

You can’t fully restructure the neural pathways involved in speech and timing to the point where stuttering permanently disappears. The brain *can* adapt (neuroplasticity), but we don’t have a way to ...

I agree. The man has poured money into his organization. Like $1m or $2m. The guy is old and wealthy. He doesn’t even need to do this, but he does because for the love of the game. It’s a shame when p...

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The NSA does \*not\* talk about overcoming stuttering, they talk about "**empowering**, **educating**, and **standing by** people who stutter and their loved ones as they navigate their stuttering jou...

If you want to accept great, if not there are ways to manage it and managing it I have in an abundance! I don’t think I will ever be a perfect fluent speaker but I know I will never have a severe bloc...

Boy, sick...