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commentr/StutterJun 24, 2025
2 points

In this job market where it’s hard to get any job, I recommend try to stay in this job for as long as you can. It’s completely okay to still feel very anxious and worry, it’s how you’ll slowly be able...

School & WorkCauses & VariabilityCoping & Advocacy
Employment & CareerStress & Fight/FlightFluency Techniques
commentr/StutterJun 24, 2025
1 points

I work in medical records and have to be on the phone everyday. I would say to challenge yourself and stay with the job . The more practice you get, the more fluent you get. You can do it :)...

School & WorkCoping & Advocacy
Employment & CareerFluency Techniques
commentr/StutterJun 24, 2025
1 points

If you're willing to try anything, I'd suggest you to read from a book 1 hour everyday for 6 months. It's known method to reduce stuttering. Just make sure to read on all tonee - slow, loud, low, fast...

Coping & AdvocacyTherapy & Professional
Fluency TechniquesPositive Therapy Techniques
commentr/StutterJun 24, 2025
8 points

Not so fast. You can manage this. Practice speaking to a metronome. You can download any metronome app for this. You can also practice speaking out loud..very slowly and get your articulators used to ...

Coping & Advocacy
Mindfulness & BreathingFluency Techniques
commentr/StutterJun 24, 2025
6 points

Thanks and I appreciate this but every moment there I’m like fully on edge, my blood pressure must be at 200 😭...

Coping & AdvocacyTherapy & Professional
Fluency TechniquesAssistive DevicesMindfulness & Breathing
commentr/StutterJun 24, 2025
18 points

I say challenge yourself and stay for minimum 1 month. 1st week is always stressful especially with a stutter but I think once it becomes routine it will impact you less. Try to make a script for your...

Coping & AdvocacySchool & Work
Voluntary Stuttering & ExposureFluency TechniquesSchool & Academic Life
commentr/StutterJun 24, 2025
6 points

I understand your pain. I wanted to be a music teacher for the longest time, but I’ve come to realize my stutter and tics get in the way. I do okay doing private lessons, but I had to give up that dre...

School & WorkCauses & VariabilityCoping & Advocacy
Employment & CareerSituational VariabilityFluency Techniques
commentr/StutterJun 23, 2025
6 points

It totally is tension—you hold it in your face, neck, and shoulders. I assume you’re blocking and trying to get the words out; I do this too. When you force your words without taking a breath or relea...

Speech & StutteringCoping & Advocacy
Physical TensionFluency Techniques
commentr/StutterJun 23, 2025
3 points

Depending on your age, if you’re a teenager or adult, sadly you’re most likely going to stutter for the rest of your life, coming from a teenager with a stutter who also stutters when I talk to myself...

Causes & VariabilityCoping & AdvocacySocial & Relationships
Severity & FluctuationFluency TechniquesFriendships & Belonging
commentr/StutterJun 23, 2025
1 points

Take a deep breath and let a little out before speaking every time. Never speak without filling your belly with air, letting a little out, then words....

Coping & Advocacy
Fluency TechniquesMindfulness & Breathing
commentr/StutterJun 23, 2025
1 points

If it's a hardware problem, how do many of us learn fluency? I'm not discounting that there are genetic factors that contribute to it. But speech, and stuttering, are learned. Fluency can be learned....

Coping & AdvocacyAnticipation & Avoidance
Fluency TechniquesAvoidance & Substitution
commentr/StutterJun 23, 2025
1 points

Is it caused by a dysfunction of dopamine, or is that a contributing factor? As I first said, this isn't something to be cured. It's not an ailment. Effective treatments exist. Those who desire flue...

Identity & DisabilityCoping & Advocacy
Medicalization / NeurodiversityFluency Techniques
commentr/StutterJun 23, 2025
2 points

There are a number of methods to unlearn your blocking/ stutter. Lee Lovett’s is one of them. For a start, he knows from experience that stuttering is not a disease. Therefore there is no “cure”, no m...

Coping & AdvocacyIdentity & DisabilityAnticipation & Avoidance
Fluency TechniquesAuthenticity vs. MaskingOverthinking & Monitoring
commentr/StutterJun 22, 2025
1 points

try keeping a beat, sing what you want to say, ill say oh when i know im going to stutter. Remember, you cant speak without air so speak slowly and inhale every now and again plus what does help me at...

Coping & AdvocacyCauses & VariabilityMeds & Substances
Fluency TechniquesSituational VariabilityRecreationa substances (e.g. Alcohol, Cannabis)
commentr/StutterJun 22, 2025
5 points

The brain is very complex. Clearly more complex than launching a rocket into space. And it's a non-life threatening condition and not that common. But mostly it's complex. You don't need a pill. It's ...

Coping & AdvocacyTherapy & Professional
Fluency TechniquesSeeking Therapy
commentr/StutterJun 22, 2025
34 points

There's nothing to be healed. The idea that it's an illness is a faulty premise. The best analogy is that it's a software problem, not a hardware (medical) problem. This is supported by the fact tha...

Identity & DisabilityCoping & AdvocacyEmotional Experience
Medicalization / NeurodiversityFluency TechniquesHope & Motivation
commentr/StutterJun 22, 2025
4 points

he didn’t cure it, he just found the techniques that work best for him and put in tons of practice and made it second nature...

Coping & AdvocacyCauses & Variability
Fluency TechniquesSeverity & Fluctuation
commentr/StutterJun 21, 2025
8 points

Agreed. There is a bollywood actor hrithik roshan, he has a video in which he described that he used to practice speech all day to get better at it, and till this day his stuttering isn't cured but ra...

Causes & VariabilityCoping & AdvocacyIdentity & Disability
Severity & FluctuationFluency TechniquesAcceptance & Pride
commentr/StutterJun 21, 2025
1 points

Have you had speech therapy? There are many techniques you can use to help control your stuttering and lessen your anxiety. I have stuttered my whole life and have had to speak publicly on many occa...

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Fluency TechniquesSeeking TherapyResearch & Resources
commentr/StutterJun 21, 2025
2 points

one that i still remember from many years ago was to tap out your words. like for each syllable tap on the table. THat helps me, Also just slowing down and maybe adding an accent...

Coping & AdvocacyAnticipation & Avoidance
Fluency TechniquesAvoidance & Substitution