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Sometimes I’d rather do this repetition then contort my face and hold it for an awkward amount of time, making other people think I’m having a seizure lol...

If you mean their facial expressions, I'm fine with that and my face does weird things anyway too. I often have to explain that my face may frown for no reason. But the people who do not let me fini...

What is origin story?

What is origin story? I really don't like dwelling on the past but recently, while observing my one year olds reaction to our dog barking, I got reminded of my true stutter origin story. So when I wa...

I’m done

I’m done I’m 17 and in my senior year of high school. I had to give a 15 minute presentation last week that eventually turned into a complete disaster. My stutter has been unbearably worse this past ...

Idk what to do….(any advice?)

Idk what to do….(any advice?) My stutter is ruining my life. I’m 24F I’ve had a stutter my whole life. It comes form of blocks. I stopped speech therapy at elementary school because the therapist sai...

They laughed at me.

They laughed at me. I was in school waiting outside the classroom for the teacher to open up (she was running late and the class was already waiting outside it). I leaned up against a wall to wait, no...

Try slow speaking, with lot of pauses and chance to breathe. Practice with strangers. Any time you feel tense, imagine slowing down. Taking your time and not letting others rush you. I find this to be...

This doesn't track for me. I don't ONLY stutter when I'm nervous, nor are my muscles tensed prior to each time I stutter....

How can Pws escape form tensing muscles ?

How can Pws escape form tensing muscles ? When Pws are nervous people tense muscles, the brain senses it, takes this is an error, y brain stops talking, when pws try to escape stuttering happens. How...

That is a tough one. When I do that, I realize I'm in panic mode. And at that point, getting a word out will require either completely stopping & rephrasing the sentence... or closing my eyes & using ...

Letting everything out

Letting everything out I just came across this sub and wanted to let everything I have about my stutter because I feel like you all will understand. I am fifteen years old and have had a stutter for...

Bad experience at drive through

Bad experience at drive through Me and my girlfriend went and ordered at the drive through of a restaurant and i stuttered at the microphone but it went okay. When I got to the window, they had entere...

Can anything be a stuttering secondary behavior?

Can anything be a stuttering secondary behavior? For those unaware, a secondary behaviors are an observable behavior that people sometimes do when stuttering which includes but are not limited to: rep...

Especially if I'm excited or smiling and stuttering turns my expression back to normal (unconsciously) and then they start to look a bit worried. It can create a negative loop....

They don’t know that I was stuttering like a old car engine yesterday🤣...

:DDD exactly... and when I noticed their worried expression then I become bit more worried and so are they and it starts to spiral out of control, thankfully it doesn't last long....

Seen this look on a lot of faces when they realize I stutter...

NO, even losing tongue will not cause stuttering or blocking, i agree words will not be clear like you will not be able to make consonats like K,G,T, CH ... "can" will sound like "aaan" but stutter/bo...

sure so what happen is that when we get a block we do few things subconciously, either one of them or all of them simultaneously 1.We stop our breath 2.We stop the phonation and instead do...

Fr i hate the “eyes” they make. Fr tho i would also make those eyes if i didn’t stutter lol...