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You hope to someday “feel better about yourself” by making nasty faces to people who have absolutely no way of knowing why words aren’t coming out?? Bad blocks come from *trying to hide your stutter/...

This is where the work of a good speech therapist comes in. It's hard to find one who knows how to help you face your fears in an effective way, but the bottomije is you're going to have to find peopl...

I’m 31 and stutter, at this age the reality of the situation is the stutter will more than likely never go away. I’ve kind of just embraced that. I’m not sad about it either. I really just try not to ...

>now it’s just become this “thing” where I’m so afraid to stutter You have your answer. The only way out is to challenge your fears and let yourself stutter....

I need to relearn not to care!! I stuttered my whole life! Pounding my hand to get the words out, to completely denying that I stutter!!...

I had a lot of gut issues which constipation, fatigue, narcolepsy, insomnia, OCD, social anxiety. I had to do some radical diet changes and ended up eliminated a lot of what I suspect was old fecal ma...

In low stress situations ( like with your family/friends) try to stutter while saying your name. It sounds counterintuitive, but it WORKS. Most of the time, the more we anticipate stuttering on some w...

If it helps you become a confident speaker, and allows you to open up and express yourself, then I'd say thats a winning strategy. Something similar has worked for me, and I'm a much more confident s...

I used to do it automatically, but now I shut my eyes on purpose sometimes. I guess I realized that it helps to calm me down enough to get the words out. I usually do it when I don't feel like struggl...

I have one on my hand. It’s myself as a tired old man with some tape over his mouth. Anyone who sees it doesn’t know what it is about unless they ask then I explain what it is and what my stutter make...

i’ve been thinking about getting a cute “please be patient” tattoo on my wrist or forearm that i can point to if i’m having a hard time speaking...

I’ve been tempted to get ‘STUTTER’ up the side of my wrist. If my stutters that bad then I can point to it. Id rather people knew I had a stutter before I spoke...

Have you actually tried it? It’s a proven technique to help reduce the speaker’s anxiety about stuttering. It has helped me and others a great deal. Sounds like you don’t know that much about stutteri...

Trying to not stutter will make your stutter worse. Try to let yourself stutter naturally....

Voluntary stuttering in order to not stutter defeats the point of voluntary stuttering, which is to actively step into being a person who stutters....

Stutter voluntarily. Get it out into the open. Tell people you stutter. Stop feeling shameful about something you can’t control. Best....

It's your decision🙂 Just remember that it also focuses on techniques to reduce stuttering. I guess the desensitization is a gradual process, it doesn't start with giving a lecture to strangers. I'm...

I think working on both is good. What works best for me is anxiety reduction by "meditation"(just sitting alone quietly for ten minutes a day and focusing on breathing slowly and relaxing) this always...

My instructor was pretty chatty but I found that since you’re focusing so much on driving, your brain forgets to stutter. Let your instructor know you’ve got a stutter and if you’re still struggling...

As far as i know, the mcquire program focuses on both. Not directly on the anxiety, but by desensitization through putting yourself in situations that you usually would avoid. I guess this is the defa...