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Watch how John Hendrickson and Amanda Mammana are during their speech blocks. They are either closing their eyes or looking away. But it's ok to maintain eye contact, it's just that you might have to ...

Yes you will look like one, it's best to play it off like you're checking your phone or something. It's just generally weird to just freeze in time while remaining eye contact....

Doesn't even matter if it works. I do it because it is the quickest way to disclose my stutter. My stutter is mostly blocks, so if I don't disclose my stutter, they just see me as a fluent person who ...

I, a stutterer of 24 years, have been having severe troubles with muscular tension in the last years and have discovered that these are correlated to my crooked bite. I am now in orthodontic treatment...

How do NORMAL people feel when speaking? How effortlessly do they do it?

How do NORMAL people feel when speaking? How effortlessly do they do it? Hey guys! been a while. So a few moments ago, i was watching a youtube video about someone stuttering and the other people reac...

>"*I'm obviously interested in anything brain. Related. I haven't been really able to find anything on the link between stuttering and blinking. When I stutter, and this seems to be a shared exper...

Do you experience extreme breathing difficulties due to stuttering as well?

Do you experience extreme breathing difficulties due to stuttering as well? My worst stutters happen when I've exhaled almost completely in an effort to finish sentences quickly before stuttering (or ...

Yeah that’s super interesting. Ive never thought about the sighing before. I’ve started a newish job 9 months ago that I’m on the phone a lot for as well and I understand what you mean with the voice ...

because I have the same experience... You think your shallow breathing and the way you tight your vocal cord is not the problem? That's how you create a block! I understand it is your brain that creat...

You know, since I've started my job in a call centre, which is a little over a year ago now, I've been yawning and sighing a LOT more than usual and it's usually while working but the sighing continue...

I’m on this sub for throat tension (MTD) and maybe cluttering, not stuttering (there’s a lot of overlap, and this sub has been so helpful). These things have contributed to making my symptoms more m...

Tension comes from trying to control (aka trying to stop or minimize stuttering in some way). Part of this is conscious and part of embedded from years of reinforced behavior. The good news is tension...

Do you have the same ?

Do you have the same ? On periods that my stutter is VERY VERY bad, I have this heavy feeling on mt chest? This weirde tightness. Does anyone else experience this?...

Tension in throat and chest causing stutter ?

Tension in throat and chest causing stutter ? I've noticed that with most words I stutter on consistently, there is a tension in my throat and often goes to my chest too which can give me a sore chest...

i can easily tell when an actor is faking a stutter. When i stutter, my facial expression changes, i clench my jaw and struggle to get a word out. I mean no one knows the struggle unless they really s...

SLP here!! Have you ever heard of the east onset method? Most likely, as you said, you’re becoming more disfluent because you’re anxious. Your muscles are tensing, and you will have MYCH more success ...

Great advice thank you. I also noticed the eyebrow movement while I recorded my self. Seeing myself, improving my speech techniques and the VR simulation really helped me, to the point that i can rea...

It's not a stutter. It's more like excessive anxiety and tension makes me pronounce my name really badly. I don't repeat any part of my name. The issue is the blockage which no one sees and once I ut...

>First record a video of yourself making a speech This is how I discovered that my secondary behaviors during blocks include eyebrow raising, rapid blinking and frowning. This explained so much, l...

I also do silent blocks like you. When I do a silent block, I'm checking how much air is pushing against the parts of my mouth (like throat, lips, tongue etc) that make sounds. This helps me decide wh...