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Hey, I've started seeing these situations as opportunity in disguise, this gives you an opportunity to practice, and this mindset has made my life infinitely better. When the bus driver asks your n...

There could be a multitude of reasons: * maybe you got an instant stutterfree flow of words because you didn't perceive stutter triggers * Maybe you didn't justify or anticipate stopping articulators...

"Is there any way I can reduce this to an extent?" Maybe you can reduce it to an extent with this method: If you do a repetition or block, then position your articulators to the next position (inste...

Recently I was also thinking if I have in my brain the ability to persuade myself like with a negative autosuggestion that I will not say something, therefore I must also have the ability to persuade ...

**Question 1**: you mentioned different modalities (cbt, act, dct). Would you also consider other modalities for our hardwired stutter triggers? (erp, inference-based cbt, mindfulness, dbt, GOTTMAN, P...

"Slowly trying to unlearn and to stutter more freely." Could you please go more in detail on how exactly you try to unlearn and stutter more freely? What did you learn in you experience by doing thi...

The repetitions are more “healthy” than the blocks and more “understandable” to most listener. Do some brief voluntary repetitions that you cccan control. Make eye contact, begin speaking slowly....

Stutter when alone?

Stutter when alone? Anyone else also stutter when alone? It may be a lot less so then with people but still there?...

the course teaches self acceptance. know that you always will be a stutterer but now have the tools to help be eloquent with it. the first thing I did was while waiting at the train station after the...

Man, I don’t know if this is your fault from here. You explained yourself, genuinely apologized. Maybe ask her if you can go out into public with her and fake stutter to strangers. Not to mock her but...

Yes! I did that, in the sense of I said the things that I currently thought about the situation to them and sad that I didn’t do it with bad intentions and that I took it as a compliment. Even there,...

I’m sorry to hear you’ve been through all this. Did your program have a strategy for responding to relapse? That’s what you need. The McGuire program has it, and I’ve been able to stay pretty much flu...

Most people are so unaware of what dysfluency actually is, they have no earthly concept that “forgetting” is a common block avoidance tactic. Most people won’t say it out loud, but I think our une...

Thus creates the very very rare situation. After my sore/painful talking the other day, I needed something soothing for my throat and I wanted to challenge myself to use my skills. So I got a drive ...

You really went out and did 75-100 contacts with strangers? Exaggerated stuttering on purpose? And used your most feared word 75-100 times? And humiliation is an internal feeling. Nobody feels humil...

Continue to put yourself in situations where you stutter. Practice makes perfect...

One last thing - 2 years ago, my heat/hot water went out for 3 days in cold winter weather. I convinced myself I “wasn’t using thermostat correctly” bc I was so scared to call. When I eventually c...

All very true. If I had to guess, are you uncomfortable with the “starting slowly” and voluntary stuttering/disclosure?...

when they invent the forgetting machine, i will be the first to offer myself and forget my stutter, to see if i would stutter again...

Sorry if this isn't exactly what the discord is for, but I'm a covert stutterer, which means I'm really good at hiding my stutter. I would love to be able to get more comfortable stuttering in front o...