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You shared your personal experience, which sounds great, but it’s not fair to suggest that it’s that way for everyone. When I was 40, I spent 2 years without leaving my house, partially bc I was simp...

I don’t think that exposure therapy, basically what you describe, works only by itself. Because I have found that if you regularly expose yourself to situations where it turns out bad, you might get a...

>I’ll go out to practice my speech and end up stuttering and feel even worse In my experience, I also feel worse - when practicing, if: * I believe that stuttering is bad and to be avoided * I me...

Hey man!! Sorry for the late reply. Thank you a lot for this amazing advice. I have actually been voluntarily stuttering for a while now, I would say 5 months or so, and it has done absolute wonders t...

You don’t have to as I’ve already given you the basics! All of my comments in this sub explain it also! You have to do the opposite...

Those ideas probably come from SLPs with litetally zero training in dysfluency. They are about as helpful as asking a professional makeup artist to see if your mole is cancerous. If those are what ...

I went to speech therapy twice as a kid and once as an adult. I was almost totally fluent while in the room, which felt amazing! There was a Subway next to the office and I'd walk over to get a sand...

Blocks are literally, directly CAUSED by trying to hide repetitions/prolongations. All fluent speakers have occasional repetitions. It's true. Listen carefully. The difference is that they are sho...

Most speech therapists have literally zero training in treating dysfluency - and most of what they tell you makes it worse. I'm trying to explain something that's very counterintuitive. You don't ha...

From the perspective of professional SLPs who *specialize* in dysfluency (many who are also PWS but learned to talk fluently) the *most effective* daily speech exercise you can do is… Stand in front ...

This advice is reinforcing the idea that stuttering is bad to be avoided at all costs. I'm sorry to say but I would give the opposite advice to this. Avoiding feared letters will only grow the fear of...

Get comfortable stuttering. Stop trying to hide it from people. If they care, fuck em. Once you do that 90% of what you view as your stuttering is will stop presenting because all it really was was yo...

Accept and be comfortable with your stutter. It’s apart of you so you won’t ever fully get rid of it but you learn how to manage it. Next is just putting yourself in situations you normally wouldn’t i...

I say that because I give lots of people these ideas that are free, available to try whenever, and that objectively help many talk fluently. I'll later see them posting "I'm willing to try anything t...

Are you sure? It’s not easy and mostly involves doing the opposite of what you are probably doing when you talk. It’s scary at first...

Yea voluntary stuttering can help with feelings of shame because you are intentionally blocking and "ruining" the flow of the conversation. And it's okay because it doesn't have that same feeling of r...

Exposure therapy. I make myself use the drive through periodocally so it never gets too big in my head. Also an excuse to get takeaway haha...

I did that when I was a kid too. Looking back, it probably helped. I still stutter like a son of a bitch but I dont avoid people as much on the phone....

Call and hang up. Call and say hello and hang up. Call and say hello and ask them when they close… Etc… The point is to desensitize you to phones and talking. The phone, and fear of it, was the singl...

This. I had to do it as a kid. I hated it and got hung up on all the time at first. Then it got easier. Now I don’t care about talking on the phone at all. I know a bunch of fluent people who hate tal...