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are all stutters treated the same?

are all stutters treated the same? i have a stutter that causes me to make a ¨ugh¨ sound that is forced. its really hard to explain the sensation but it feels like a muscle spasm in my throat and forc...

My parents noticed early I had trouble talking early. 2nd or 3rd grade started speech therapy (in school til the day I graduated HS) also blessed to have the same speech therapist still have contact w...

For me I had a similiar experience. I remember in elementary school when I wanted to say something but I decided to stay silent because of stutter, my mind would try to force me to do something, like ...

finally

finally i was finally able to to convince my mom that the solution to my stutter isn't "think about what you need to say" or "you can speak, you just need to believe in yourself" and that its an actua...

For me, that is the hardest thing to deal with being a person who stutters… it’s the blocks that get you the confused and shocked looks and the crazy assumptions made about you. My current job I work ...

I would say so in my case, my dad definitely made my stutter worse. I would be talking to him as a kid, excited to share something with him and have blocks, and in most cases he would run out of patie...

I completely understand what you’re saying. For me I feel like they wouldn’t be mistaken if they assume that I’m anxious and nervous. I think a lot of people are nervous is the situation of a job inte...

For years, early on, I would squeeze one eye shut when blocking, in a wishful thinking attempt to force the word out. I still find myself occasionally doing that, but much less as I’m more self aware ...

Like usually in a speech block our tongue or lips exert over pressure than required like which generally ends up blocking the word even further and this happens on its own in the situation of terror. ...

Oh definitely bro/sis... I knew about this but I never gave much focus on using it... is it great for this ? I am definitely gonna apply this for a week and will try to make it sound more human and n...

Woaw, this research is absolutely incredible! It explores what it feels like for people who stutter on the inside, like that sense of losing control or being stuck and struggling to speak. It also loo...

Sometimes I feel like the brain using too much force to make the beginning of the first sound come out with the inability to reverse the action, imagine saying the sound T you can do the first move bu...

Will getting a first job fix a stutter(blockage) by socializing more? How has getting a job effected your stutter?

Will getting a first job fix a stutter(blockage) by socializing more? How has getting a job effected your stutter? I am looking for a first job and am hoping it can help me with my stutter. I have a b...

not a single day without embarassment and cringe!

not a single day without embarassment and cringe! damn guys I'm so tired of this! Do you have such embarassing situation with stuttering daily? Like when people don't understand what is happening to y...

I’ve had this way too many times to count. Sometimes I’d block so bad and all the air would come out during, that my upper stomach would be sore the next day....

When I block, all the tension makes me physically stop breathing. And I do sometimes get winded or lightheaded from that. Most likely that's what it is, but everyone is different....

Tightness in jaw

Tightness in jaw Most of the times when I speak, I feel tightness in either side of my cheek prompting to apply extra pressure to open my mouth and eventually making me conscious. This has been one of...

I feel lightheadedness if I instruct execution to articulate and only if I untense my head muscles. Interestingly, if I tense the muscles at the upper or rear part of my head, I don't experience this ...

One time, when the air quality in my area wasn’t great, I had a bad block and my eyes started to blur. At your son’s age I definitely experienced more physical symptoms after blocking though, like fat...

My stutter over the years

My stutter over the years I need help please, While growing up as a kid my stutter was kind of rough. I used force the letters to come out and ended up repeating the same letter until the full word c...