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Excellent to hear that you are choosing voluntary stuttering! I found it was soo helpful for me I prefer to use the term “ignorant” when there’s probably some level of malice. That’s just me tho...

Sometimes letting yourself stutter does wonders. Our stutter usually gets worse when we're anticipating it and we're doing everything to stop stuttering. This can create tension, and ironically this m...

This is literally the truth, the answer. But it’s hard to find a safe space to stutter, you know? At work, around friends, it’s hard to let yourself stutter....

Hey Super, Here’s what’s always worked for me! When my stutter was at its worst, I would volunteer to go first! Sound ridiculous, right? Here was my logic: I’d rather go first so I wasn’t thinkin...

Pre-pre-pre-vent the blocks even more by doing a fun disclosure using this theme! And then, try *talking on exhales*. inhales are likely to be shallow, which directly increase the fear. Anyways, i...

I had a severe stutter from a boy age 5 to about age 30. Then one speech therapist suggested it would help me get through a block if I pr-rrrr-olonged the fff-first sound. That helped a lot. ...

HELP Desired... ideas for public stuttering experiment

HELP Desired... ideas for public stuttering experiment Hello! As some of you may have seen my recent posts, I like to do social challenges talking about stuttering. I'm looking for some creative i...

From early childhood, every person who talks has occasional repetitions and prolongations. At some point, we perceived that others thought poorly of us for having them. The physical effort to try t...

I had a very similar “life” for about a decade before I learned how to be able to say what I wanted. Some ppl in this sub will tell you to embrace your stutter or just “don’t care what others think”...

You´ve got intelligent thinking but I think you´re going too deep into it. I can relate. I admit it can be a paradox. Thinking about something else can hijack your attention though. Your thought doesn...

If this is too much, do brief voluntary repetitions to yourself in the mirror. Work up to a phone call to a store, and then more. Make sure to make eye contact and begin speaking on *exhales*....

I double down on my voluntary repetitions. Takes less than a day to get me right back to about 1 block/week. I’m a preschool teacher, so I’m talking all day long to 40-50 different people....

This is a great idea. While some people won’t have the courage, even a smaller version of this with friends would probably do wonders. Without the exposure, we tend to assume the worst about others an...

My strategy, which comes directly from SLPs who also used to have disabling stutters, reduced my blocking and avoidances about 95% and I sometimes completely forget that I’m a PWS. There are the ...

Great to hear :) Maybe start by having a heart-to-heart w Google where you let ‘em hear lots of repetitions!...

Yup others try to deny our struggles. In my case I would block and made weird facial expressions on most words. Getting out of my comfort zones was one thing that definitely helped me improve my speec...

Exposure therapy can definitely help but I agree it’s really hard for a pws. Most likely if they will get stuck and stutter in the beginning. But after doing it for a while it’s going to build more co...

I fully believe comfort zone therapy can help. But it's very hard to do and takes a lot of courage....

Crazy though, you would think because we know it isn't a real person we wouldn't have that response. I'm done hiding from it I just want to confront it now. Whatever it takes. Thanks for the comments....

I think that viewing it as a thing that needs to be cured is what is stopping us improving. We keep fighting it. For me the fear of blocking or stuttering is far worse than when it actually happens. B...