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I am confident. Some might say too much so. I accept myself for the person I am now and the person I know I can be. I can be articulate and captivating. Stutter stands in the way of my ideal, so I don...

I was completely wrong about my stutter...

I was completely wrong about my stutter... During the pandemic, I decided to return to speech therapy after a decade without it. I reached out to the SLP program at my university and began participati...

In your own experience, is holding eye contact helpful to get past a block, or just an avoidance behavior basically a trick?

In your own experience, is holding eye contact helpful to get past a block, or just an avoidance behavior basically a trick? ...

I have realised that I don’t care

I have realised that I don’t care I don’t know how to explain what I mean by this. For a long time, I really wanted to be rid of it. Then, I finally accepted that it probably isn’t possible to be rid ...

My condolences. You're right, I am striving to not be ashamed to stutter everyday and I am making good progress. I guess when my stutter became so bad at one point, I was just happy to stutter and ju...

Positivity to you all

Positivity to you all As I go through old photos to prep for my mom’s funeral, I Iook through all the facades I’ve put on over the years. Don’t hide who you are, don’t spend years being ashamed as I ...

I do this to and I believe the aversion of my eyes is my brain instinctively focusing on the stutter or trying to “correct” my speech what’s been helping me though is diving into the uncomfortable, ho...

Fluent speakers can speak fluently without this. As well as most of us when we are alone. You can try it yourself. You can imitate stuttering when you are alone and see that you can stop at any time....

I have a mild to nearly non existent stutter most days, but I will stutter and block endlessly during interviews or any other stressful speaking situation. I’ve had a lot of interview experience and t...

Yes, I think a lot of stutterers do it. I in fact am one. In my case, want to go lightning-fast to get rid of it unconsciously, and it just makes it worse. When I'm in a calm situation or with nothin...

I fell into a bad habit of knowing that if I just stayed agreeable, my nervous system would not get aggravated and then the stutter wouldn’t come about. In my 40's now and dealing with a life (you do...

I have a severe stutter and spent almost 15 years in therapy. My stutter was worse when I finally left therapy than when I started. The techniques and tricks of traditional therapy don't work because ...

I hear ya, just here to talk about stuttering, tricks to get by and the psychological effects it’s had and pass on my lessons to those who are going through what I went through....

>*"Why we don't stutter when we are alone and why we do stutter when with other people? "* I believe it's likely the same answer to the question, why don't we stutter when silent mouthing a word (ak...

You will be able to speak at your natural pace. You set aside 15 mins during the day to practice the metronome pace. The rest of the day you can speak normally. In the video, he also mentioned addin...

Something that helped me was being spontaneous and funny, even though my personality was the opposite of that. I started creating an alter ego that would be exactly what I described above, I started ...

Thanks for the tips! Yeah talking slow definitely helps a lot, though sometimes I feel like I use speaking fast as a mechanism to blend a word that I know I’m gonna stutter on into another. That’s so ...

Suffered with a stutter for years and had to do many presentations. Best thing I found, is not to read from a script or keep any of your points word for word. Almost do it off the cuff so you can stee...

exactly. I try to "compensate" for my stuttering with perfectionism in everything I do. and like you said, everyone gives me attention and approval. At school everyone always waited for my presenta...

Great! Love your strategy. Is genius. You accept the fact that you can´t (at least for now) stutter proudly so you manage your options. I can see how it works and why it reduces your anxiety. There...