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My eyes tend to wheel about when I stutter and sometimes it closes my eyes. I guess it's just natural for people with stutters because your body keeps moving but your words don't. I can move my hands ...

My eyes naturally wander when speaking to people. It’s awkward when you and the other person are just having a stare down while you’re trying to get your word out lol....

My stutter literally makes me close my eyes so that's a nope...

I've been working on this for decades, and I feel I still struggle a lot with eye contact. I can't seem to shake it. Ironically, if I give eye contact during introductions, I get my name out quicker...

Eye contact

Eye contact Does anybody else not give eye contact while stuttering? The reason I can’t do it is because the anxiety and stress is unbearable. I know I should but I feel so uncomfortable and I hate to...

indeed for me what helps in the middle of a scentence is to just keep moving your mouth, even when there's a scary word just keep talking and don't stop but I struggle a lot at the start of a scentenc...

Agree, people say talking slower is better and at the start of a conversation maybe but when speaking fast my mouth also moves so fast my brain doesn't have room to think and blocks happen barley beca...

That's the thing, I try not to to fight it but the tension in my body and throat seems to pop up inherently when I block up and there's just no way to relax...

Do you feel like you can effortlessly stutter? Ive definitely came to terms with my stutter and I do it openly with friends, family, coworkers etc. But I still get blocks that cause me to complete tig...

You aren't alone! My blocks come in facial tension and eye squinting. After a day of talking it feels like I can hardly move my face. We have highs and lows, hang in there!...

>Increasing behavioral self-awareness of speaking and stuttering I would put these in my top 5: * Decreasing tension in moments of stuttering. Specifically tension in the back of my neck, forehea...

Tips on getting out of your head when speaking??

Tips on getting out of your head when speaking?? I've found that if I'm out of my own head when speaking I'm able to speak so much easier, I still stutter but it's manageable and I can still speak nat...

Empty/strange feeling in chest?

Empty/strange feeling in chest? Today has been an awful start. I've got this empty/strange feeling in my chest and I can't get rid of it. I don't know if it's the cause or not but my stutter has been...

If I have to talk a lot over the course of the day my cheeks are badly cut up - I feel your pain....

I bite my inner front lip plenty. Try to relax a bit. When there’s tension, it just adds to the snowball. Easier said than done for sure....

Ive bitten my lip before and started bleeding if the stutter is that bad. Im 26 now and doesn't happen as often anymore, maybe 5 times in the past 2 years...

Fuckin hate this

Fuckin hate this U guys ever have a real bad speech day and u bite ur tongue so many times in a block rather than a stutter that it’s sore the next day or only me...

I tried but I kind of get blocked of sounds (vocalising) while exhaling...

Laryngeal spasm. Take almost full breath, then slowly vocalize, ease into it. I first thought you meant you speak on inhale. Reminded me of Tenacious D when he sings while breathing in. Haha....

Wow, that's amazing, as I'm the opposite. If I have to read text aloud, I stutter like crazy. I stutter when I speak, but it's nowhere near as bad as when i read aloud. I was in once situation where ...