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Not trying to be negative at all but I can not possibly understand how opening yourself up to being mocked, made fun of or insulted that undoubtedly leads to some type of trauma being a good thing....

You do it by letting yourself stutter when a disfluency comes. The reason you push is because you're resisting stuttering and holding back. This is very hard to work on your own and something a good, ...

Okay, then the answer should be at least sort of obvious. Don’t resist your stutter. Easier said than done. But become comfortable with stuttering, so you don’t got to resist. Resist is the same thing...

This is a loaded question that deserves more of a conversation than a post. It sounds like you may benefit from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or some similar therapy.. We have the stutterer's mindse...

Does not need to be light repetitions. My therapist had me call businesses and start out with 20 second blocks. What a sadistic woman haha...

I've a question. What if the voluntary stuttering turns into real stuttering and you can't do voluntary stuttering again because you're really blocking?...

To stutter on purpose. The reasons to do this, as it has been discussed it can be used for desensitize; that is to reduce fear and when stuttering moments occur, it will allow you to react to these i...

in my case, voluntary repetition does seem to reduce my blocks and secondary behavior frowns....

Add stuttering as light repetitions voluntarily, 2-3 repititons is what i go for, i started with 1 repetition. I repeat the first syllable...

Yes 100% But maybe tolerance towards fear and not fear reduction is important? Atleast for me I tried fear reduction all my life, it helps in the moment but doesnt fix the issue itself long term an...

But I firmly believe that we only stutter because we are afraid of certain words and spontaneity of speech. So I try to embrace carefreeness and comfort instead of disfluency, because we’re not innate...

It helps me. I have a friend who has a very interesting take on it. He doesn't want to desensitize it, he wants to embrace his disfluency....

Yes! It is panic inducing! But you agree, voluntary stuttering helps?...

For me, voluntary stuttering was an extremely hard thing to let myself do. I used to get in these huge downward spirals where if I had a bad block, my thoughts would go into oblivion !and I would los...

I agree. If this technique is getting you an over 95% reduction in impactful dysfluency and related behaviors, and if it’s sustainable then fantastic!...

I’m pretty sure you will find that almost everyone here who has developed a comfortable fluency has done so by using disclosing of some kind (voluntary stuttering, direct disclosing etc). My person...

That can be done only *after* desensitizing yourself to stuttering. How can you work on being fluent if you’re afraid of stuttering? Address the fear and then pursue fluency....

I agree that avoiding situations makes stuttering worse. Additionally, avoiding is much bigger than 'situations' like avoiding negative emotions or thoughts. I argue that avoidance of anticipatory fe...

Voluntary stuttering is ESSENTIAL in my mind

Voluntary stuttering is ESSENTIAL in my mind If your goal is to overcome stuttering, you MUST remove your internalized conception that stuttering is a bad thing, something to be ashamed of. The only...

If you start stuttering, look her in the eyes and say her beauty takes your speech away, or you are excited to be near her. Practice it though, don't stutter as it ruins the line. Also don't stutter ...