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I believe that accepting your stutter is the most effective way to reduce your disfluency. To accept your stutter I think that what you first need is strong confidence, so try and excel at something o...

As well as focusing on the speech therapy aspect, work on (or refer your students) to a therapist. Stutterers often face a daily level of terror and anxiety about stuttering. Honestly I feel sometimes...

Oh, I totally do not make eye contact when I talk to people. I can usually get as far as looking in their direction or looking at their forehead, but I look down a LOT. I don't know how much of it i...

Yes haha this used to be a big thing for me. Avoiding eye contact. Makes it harder to connect with people though and is almost disrespectful at times. Its the tension that is caused by holding eye...

Lettuce was always the hardest for me a subway too lol. It comes complete sense. You don't stutter when you are by yourself, nor do you stutter when you talk alone with animals. But as soon as a h...

yea, in class I overthink asking to go to the bathroom because I dont wanna stutter, so I just dont ask and suffer with a full bladder....

People who stutter (PWS) aren't monoliths so take your cue from him. Does he flinch or look annoyed when he stutters, or does he just roll with it? If he seems unflustered, chances are good that he's ...

Stuttering during lockdown.

Stuttering during lockdown. Hey friends, The UK has recently gone into a second lockdown, but I've been trying to stay home as much as possible since the first lockdown anyway (I'm fortunate enough t...

Personally I’m a little insecure so if someone did that, my thought process tends to be that they’re treating me like I’m stupid or something. Similar if someone starts talking to me slower. It’s like...

Yeah i m really aware of the fact that you need to take it slow and take deep breathes but i m like, what if they watch me in a weird way if i take it super slow?...

Have a Zoom presentation for class; need advice

Have a Zoom presentation for class; need advice In a couple weeks, I have to present in front of the class over Zoom. We're supposed to prepare like a five minute presentation or so. Since quarantine ...

Woah I’m thinking passive aggressiveness isn’t the answer here, so “:/ guy” I think you should try not to worry about it too much, if you stutter it isn’t the end of the world, getting the question ri...

My stutter is really bad when I'm talking to a stranger tho....

Inconsistent stutter since grade 8

Inconsistent stutter since grade 8 Hi there, this is a bit of a long read, but I appreciate any help! I (24, F) have a stutter that is very inconsistent and I'm not sure what to do about it. I have n...

yea i hate every time i do something simple such as buying things from a store or asking for a pen i panic and have to plan out what to say to try and not stutter...

Stuttering during classes

Stuttering during classes Hi, I just signed into driving school and started attending theory class (in my country we have 40 class of theory and another 40 where we learn to drive actually). During t...

Would also like to see the answer for this. Not the same thing but I answer the phone where I work and it’s my personal hell. I can only get halfway through the greeting I have to say before I get com...

Stuttering and phone calls

Stuttering and phone calls Has anyone who stutters had to deal with debt collectors/bills on the phone? So I have a moderate stutter and when I’m on the phone it’s so much worse. To the point someti...

For some people it do, for some people don't. I don't think it will help your stutter directly, but it might help your anxiety associated with it (you probably know this after the research anyway). Fo...

The second sentence oh my gosh, I know that people who don’t have stutters still worry about disfluency but the power they have without even knowing it....