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Job interview tips I tend to stutter a lot during job interviews because i feel nervous. I always let the recruiter know that I have mild stutter. However it does not really make a difference for me. ...

Me!!!!!! My name starts phonetically with A and I can't voice it out. But there are times where I do not stammer or stutter at all. I don't know why this happens. And there are also times where I'm li...

Can someone relate, not being able to voice out a sentence because it starts with a certain letter?

Can someone relate, not being able to voice out a sentence because it starts with a certain letter? I struggle especially with letter A. And sometimes P T K. There are moments where I wanted to cry c...

I struggle especially with letter A.  And sometimes P T K. There are moments where I wanted to cry cuz my name's phonetic sound starts with A, and when people ask it, I get stuck like a goldfish out o...

Me too. It feels like if I'm responding to someone they've already "broken the silence".  Everytime I get put on the spot, everything is so quiet it's nerve-wracking ...

Defense mechanism and stuttering

Defense mechanism and stuttering Have you ever used devaluation to avoid feeling ashamed of your stuttering (like, "why I should worry about them if they worse then me")? How do you overcome this? Thi...

I smoke a lot of weed, but I always see it as managing my anxiety rather than managing my stutter. When my mind and body are feeling good, I'm more fluent. If not, I'm not. I try not to look further i...

Anxiety, stress, fatigue, etc., exacerbate it for sure, but there's something much deeper (and likely personalized to a degree) to the dysfluency....

Yes i agree. Sometimes in college when professors ask me something, I end up stuttering while answering. They stare at me weirdly sometimes and some classmates even smile a little. My friends ask me l...

On this Reddit people have reported various levels of success with Abilify, Risperidone, Prozac, Sertraline, Baclofen, Propranolol and other antipsychotic medications used “off label” for their stutte...

Agree. I used to have these horrible blocks and repetitions. Through facing my fear, changing my mindset, and going to speech therapy I have been able to speak fluently 75-80% of the time instead of l...

Hi I guess I consider myself as having been cured from stuttering, but disagree where you say I probably didn’t have a stutter.  The cure for myself is that I can answer a phone, host a meeting, and ...

The main idea was that what matters is not so much the practice of speaking, but rather sober external feedback, which subsequently fosters sober self-reflection. It is self-criticism that is perhaps ...

That's why I said, "MOSTLY due to you not truly allowing yourself to stutter freely," because I'm aware that other conditions/reasons exist why some people stutter. For you it might be neurological, ...

Having a stutter is just anxiety & it’s fixable.

Having a stutter is just anxiety & it’s fixable. I have read so many times in this group from so much people that say having a stutter or a block is just emotional or that we’re afraid to talk hence c...

Hello. I’m now in my 50s and I’ve had a stutter since the age of 7. School was very tough, like you, there were so many times where I knew the correct answer but did not raise my hand to give the ans...

I can contribute. I am 16 years old and have been stuttering sinxe I was 4, and recently my absolute biggest challenge has been to answer normal questions, the worst one being what my name is I am a k...

As a teen myself, who stutters quite a bit, this helped me. However I wish I could speak fluently so I cound talk to strangers, and even the thought of that my family almost has never heard me speak "...

To the OP, yes definitely, your mental health can exacerbate your stuttering. Stutterers already have a dysregulated dopaminergic system in their brain compared to non-stutterers. This can be overacti...

Some people find just not giving a fk really helps them because they’re not self monitoring their speech so much, which takes the pressure and anticipatory anxiety away from speaking situations. The f...