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How exactly does it make things worse? More repetitions, more silent blocks, more secondary behaviors?...
It sounds a lot like what happened to me, except I only speak English. My mouth doesn't usually get quite sore after speaking but it I'm struggling it can feel a bit numb at times...
Do you have a private area or an office? I find pacing around the room helps me Also they cannot see your face. In speech therapy I was told to try and not use “secondary movements” to help with yo...
Let her finish her own sentences. Don't read too much into things that might just be her secondary behaviors. So if she grimaces in the middle of stuttering or blocking, that is not her being upset o...
I’m hard of hearing and do sometimes stutter. When I can’t get a word out or when I can’t think of a word, I do this all the time. People look at me like I’m a preying mantis. 😆...
What should I do in blocks?
What should I do in blocks? I usually try to force my way through it and I’ve been doing this since I can remember. This causes things like twitches and stuff so I am trying to stop using force. I was...
My stutter is pretty severe. Eyes closed, hard blocks, spitting, biting my tongue. The whole 9. Just FYI. I reread my post and realized it could be construed as a mild stutter or something...
Smile!
Smile! Just saw this mentioned the other day and something I had never heard before regarding my stutter. I’ve struggled with a stutter for about 30 years and made a little progress over time but rece...
Stuttering is really a huge pain!- emotionally, psychologically, physically! 😭😢...
I've never tried this myself (but probably should), but [these singer exercises](http://caricole.com/releasing-tension-and-stress-in-the-larynx-throat/) to loosen tension in the throat may be helpful....
How to reduce physical pains from stuttering?
How to reduce physical pains from stuttering? I have been having to talk a lot recently and, as a result of this, I have been getting muscle pains from blocking in my neck and face and a sore throat. ...
Does anyone else get a lingering feeling in their chest after struggling to get words out that’s like a heaviness? Or do you get that feeling in your chest before you even speak knowing that it’s gonna be a block but you can’t stop yourself from still trying to get things out?
Does anyone else get a lingering feeling in their chest after struggling to get words out that’s like a heaviness? Or do you get that feeling in your chest before you even speak knowing that it’s gonn...
Little distraction goes a long way. I think what ever relieves us from compounding the effect seems like it helps to the naked eye. It also likely has you talking in a different pace, maybe slower a...
Yeah, I’ve been there too. Just as bad is when you have kids and somebody asks you your kids name and you block on it and then you just know they are thinking “what kind of parent forgets their own ki...
I definitely stray while stuttering. It's part of the look of stuttering because it is very hard to break that habit. I think it's best no to be hard on ourselves for it. I used to think it was purely...
My eyes used to wander a lot. I would be talking to person A and I get a block and my eyes are looking at person B and I only realize it after person B interrupts....
With strangers, I do not make eye contact. With people I know, I disclose that my stutter blocks sometime make me grimace and after that, I can try to make eye contact....
Severe. Never a fluent sentence. Blocks that lasted until I ran out of breath. At 13, I got kicked out of the opticians office. I went to pick up my new glasses. Couldn't get my name out. They though...
When I'm not stuttering I give eye contact. But it's hard to when I am, between my eyes closing and just looking away for some reason??...
I also find I come out of blocks quicker when I make continuous eye contact thorigh a conversation. Somehow it works. But it's so hard, especially on those blocks that grimace your whole face....