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"I've always wanted to be on stage, and perform". You accidentally wrote the answer to your own question. Go for it ! The regret of going there and stuttering will always be less strong and signific...

Hmm I think if spoken to, I’m super open try to engage with the person as much as possible and try not to close down the conversation prematurely and ask follow up questions. Often times at a gatherin...

Anyone else avoid family gatherings or any gatherings because of their stutter? And if they do go you just sit in the corner on their phone. Or do you not let your stutter determine weather you’re introverted or extroverted?

Anyone else avoid family gatherings or any gatherings because of their stutter? And if they do go you just sit in the corner on their phone. Or do you not let your stutter determine weather you’re int...

All motor problems of stuttering is the result of stuttering not the cause of it. There are merely symptoms and do not address the problem. Tackle the problem and the motor and muscles issues will go ...

I would even go a step further. In that, tensing the lips is not required. Yes but relaxing the lip muscles would also not be required, right? It's not that tensing my lips to its maximum extent preve...

When we stutter on our name because we see it as important to say. We feel like we cannot move forward to continue saying the sound (to say our name).. we feel as if we are stuck on a word. We blame n...

When people ask me how it feel, I say it's like trying so hard to move one of your ears....

There is a demon tenant inside my throat whose frame blocks my vision, whose presence prevents the full gust of wind to hit my body, whose towering figure casts a shadow on me and I have no light of m...

There are a couple of excerpts from the book Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion that really got to me. It's about a sentient zombie, but could apply to stammerers equally well: “In my mind I am eloquent; I ...

topics: * What we think is required to move the speech muscles VS what is actually required * Explaining vicious circle * Talk about the dozens of different modalities; only focusing on one single ...

Why is it easier talking to strangers

Why is it easier talking to strangers I don’t know if everyone has this or just me, but I find that when I talk to strangers, I am a lot more careful and self-conscious about my stuttering. But I can’...

As a woman, I can assure you right now that I would look at a man no differently if he had a stutter. In fact I would find it very attractive and “manly” if a guy would be upfront and confident about ...

For me, I discovered speech blocks happened because of my fear to actually stutter. A "normal" stutter will go like "st-st-st-s-ss-stutter" or "b-b-b-b-b-b-bread". Me fearing that others could actual...

Terminologies explained: * **Speech errors**: Stuttering-like disfluencies and hesitations are **NOT** speech errors. But they signify underlying errors that are detected in the speech motor plan and...

That's a tough question. I've had speech therapy as a child, which didn't amount to very much. My stutter wasn't... /too/ bad, yet it conditioned me to stay quiet, and made me avoid social interaction...

Well, I was fully on board until your last sentence. Anyway, yes people tell me all the time that I don't stutter. They think I'm just being self deprecating or something. I don't mind if they say "I ...

I love this comment. How did you achieve this mindset, if I may ask? Sometimes I feel the same, other times I wish I could disappear. I want to let it go, but I don't know how....

People don't care about our stutter as much as we think they do. Everyone has their problems to deal with and will have forgotten about us the next day, while we sit at home with a lingering thought o...

I perfectly understand what you mean! Even when people know I have a stutter & I try to talk about it, they react by telling me I don't have a problem at all. I feel like this invalidates and denies a...

Mine is the same. But I’m a bit better at masking it. However, the stakes when it does sneak out are now higher (work presentations, job interviews, etc.)...