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Code switching (i think that's the term) is super helpful. Quoting a movie, a song. Turns off the switch of thinking about stuttering....

As weird as it sounds I find kicking a wall helps me get through blocks. If I sense a word coming up that I am going to stutter on I kick the wall at the beginning of the word and this usually helps. ...

I work for a large defense contractor and my company does pretty much exclusively phone interviews, boy it suuuuuuucks. I tend to pace around the house quite a bit, so I make sure the family knows. Ma...

This isn’t a permanent solution but I sometimes have a whiskey or a beer before an important phone call. I know that leaning on booze for a solution isn’t healthy but it really helps me, to the point ...

Walk with a Bluetooth, gesture and smile a lot. I find that when I gesture with my hands when walking it helps release a lot of tension, reducing my stutter. Smiling makes you sound more confident and...

Tips for Phone Interviews

Tips for Phone Interviews When I started my first "real" job hunt a few years ago after graduating from school, I got multiple job offers despite my stutter. I disclosed at the beginning of the interv...

What are your goals in life? How do you think stuttering will affect them?

What are your goals in life? How do you think stuttering will affect them? ...

Sudden Realization

Sudden Realization I was on the school bus going home today and I was talking to my friend and then they ask me, “Why do you talk like that?”, In which I replied with:, “Talk like what?”, “Like you’re...

Interactions with new people.

Interactions with new people. Earlier this morning, I was in the gym locker room back home ( came home from college) and this dude started talking to me and asked me where I study and what my major wa...

Yes, I know we can, but I also know that there's not just 1 way for these things to manifest. :) So, I gather you're attempting to say the sound, but since you feel it failing, you stop. What happen...

Graduation

Graduation Hi guys, sorry for my english. Yesterday morning I graduated and had to discuss my dissertation with a microphone in front of 5 professors and about 100 people (including my parents), and...

Do I belong here?

Do I belong here? I got a concussion a while ago and I have developed a very mild stutter. It doesn't impair my regular function, but I often find myself stuttering and stumbling over my words, which ...

I don’t use those types of things. I stutter severely when attempting and they usually stop listening or reply prematurely before I’m finished. This causes a lot of unneeded frustration. It really sti...

Sure does, partly why I kept using a slight accent to overcome vowels that I have difficulty with but now I am finding it hard to turn off lol. I also use cbd...

Its so hard anyway and when someone is around i would rather take my time to type than to try to say in front of someone... you are one of rare people who really looks into this and i truly want to he...

I posted this in response to another question but the OP deleted the post. However I believe it explains what’s going on with accents and other “fluent” phenomena. William Parry’s program “Valsalva S...

people who stutter can basically "feel" when they are going to stutter. In my case, I get to the word and I cannot say the first letter of the word, so I stay quiet, pretend lie I'm thinking and tell...

Found out I have more fluency when I adopt an accent, now it's become a part of my speech

Found out I have more fluency when I adopt an accent, now it's become a part of my speech Here's a lighthearted one for you today. It started with me practicing an Irish accent with friends while ha...

I was 29 years old when I learnt that you're supposed to close your menu to indicate to the wait staff that you're ready to order. I always left mine open (and now I reopen it) because I need to read...

I start using Siri and such when I feel I can get most of the sentence out in one shot. But Siri often gets my sentence right even if I stutter anyway....