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I've accepted that this isn't going away by itself and the only way to really help it, is to help myself. I've found that the more I'm up front and honest about it, the less of a problem it is. I've ...

Start your speech with a joke about your stutter. Beat them to the punch. It’ll also takes off you some of the stress of stuttering when you give the speech. I always start my Zoom lectures with “if ...

I also do not stutter when I talk to myself. I also never stutter when I talk to animals or babies/todlers. Another time that I do not stutter is when I whisper....

That’s the magic of my suggestions! You don’t have to overcome your beliefs - I certainly didn’t when I first started to change. Just take a baby step by making one phone call and doing one voluntar...

There are passive ways to disclose too. Try starting with a voluntary, brief, repetition, with normal eye contact....

This is what I do - make eye contact and start *exhaling*, and let it out slowly. The beginning will be slightly elongated, but hardly anyone will notice (or mind)....

If you can’t stop thinking about it (like me and many others), basucally do the opposite of what you are doing that’s causing blocks. Start w a short controlled voluntary repetition, make eye contact...

I laugh harder than they do, like manic laughter. If you can’t beat them, join em. Also, people won’t cross with psychos. So there’s that. This is terrible advice but it works for me....

I have my reasons to openly stutter. I used to be covert but I'm trying to be more open these days because I noticed what my face does when I try to get through blocks so hard. An angry face even thou...

My old speech therapist had me do this every session (even when I was around 12-13 years old). At first I was afraid but then I was like fuck em...

Call a far away store and start with a single voluntary repetition. “Hi, wwwhat time do you close today.” What’s the worst that can happen?...

Non-stutterers focus more on facts (left-hemisphere) like words are just words, where PWS focus more on emotions (right-hemisphere) like feared words and situations. According to [this research](http...

Yep this is the stuff that keeps me up at night so to speak. I'd love to do experiments like the ones you suggest. I'm an audio recording engineer and the crazy thing is I use this same brain trick...

Many SLP’s suggest techniques that are only appropriate to help people with articulation problems (can NEVER EVER say certain sounds). We need to avoid those as they usually make it worse. It’s as d...

The way to solve that is to disclose in some way (directly or by doing controlled, voluntary stuttering). As a bonus, disclosing is the thing that makes most blocks disappear. True story....

This has always baffled me as a stutterer, particularly with blocking. I feel like it's a clue or some kind of insight into the mechanics of my how brain short circuits. Just can't figure it out tho....

Great post! You never had a stutter disorder until 13 years old where you then started to block and few months afterwards it turned into a severe form until 26 years old. You experience that something...

An extreme version of that (while in a hospital during a Covid surge) is what got me obsessively looking for a way to talk. [I found it here](https://www.stuttering-specialist.com/about-us). After a...

My secrets huh? Do the opposite. Really. Do controlled, voluntary stutters. Make normal eye contact. Begin slowly on normal exhale and enunciate. How many of those are the opppsite of what you d...

Are you ready for the step that comes after "i'm done trying to hide it?" I was so good at "hiding" my stutter, a family friend who's a SLP had no clue. But after years, I developed debilitating blo...