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Yeah you make some good points. The only real reservation I have about mentioning it is, it sounds like I’m making excuses....

This is a good idea actually, and if you hit a bad block at least you know you'll likely never have to actually see the receiver in person 😂...

One of biggest fears/insecurities is being perceived by others as incompetent...

One of biggest fears/insecurities is being perceived by others as incompetent... This directly ties in with how I perceive my own stutter. Stuttering has brought me so much pain, anxiety, and self dou...

You're not an asshole but that suggestion would do more harm than good. You'd basically be reinforcing to him not to try and speak when he has a stutter and thats the opposite message he should be hea...

You're introducing a junk trick into your speech. It may work for inserting something like "hey", but you're on your way to use "buffer" where they don't fit because it "helps". All it helps is for yo...

Samuel Jackson also stuttered in his early life, and got around it using profanity as buffer words. It words, though I don't recommend it around family....

I know right , letting go doesn't come as easy to me also . I find it really hard to stutter openly . If I do stutter openly , the word doesnt just come out. I almost always have to circumlocate aroun...

I'm using this technique as well, the thing is it doesn't work form me when I'm telling a longer story....

Well, it's totally fine to use as a "trick" on some occasions - but not all. Tricks have a tendency to lose their effectiveness if they become habitual. As for being stuck... this is something that m...

This is very good I think! Especially in the long term, so that the dangerous words lose their dangerousness. Kind of confrontation therapy. I’ll try to do this more often from now on....

Mmh, yes, this sounds true to me. So I guess, in the long term, I could try to deal even with the difficult words and should confront myself with them instead of avoiding them, so that they “lose” the...

Yeah I use this technique aswell, it's good helping thru the stutter and all man, I know...

Maybe this is the most basic and well known of techniques to (sort of) reduce stuttering...

Maybe this is the most basic and well known of techniques to (sort of) reduce stuttering... We have this special superpower of predicting the future in real time. We know, sentences ahead, when we’ll ...

I do the same thing but then I realize it's bad to replace words I have difficulty saying, so I try to avoid avoidances....

I know, I would never do this, but I am wondering if anyone has ever done this when in sticky situations, not all, of course....

Yeah, u/MandalaGold, what you're doing here isn't actually "coping". It's *evading*. Very common as a coping *mechanism*, of course, but contrary to the positive connotations of that notion, it's best...

I’ve had this talk many times with parents of clients who stutter No, it is a silly idea. Learning ASL is not a functional way to communicate with society in general. You are better off stuttering ...

This is EXACTLY my case.I am a covert stutteter,and when I tell my friends that I stutter, they say that I never stuttered infront of them. I have stuttered but I think it's not as worse as it seems t...

You shouldn't be avoiding saying certain words. I hear that's supposed to make your stutter worse or stay the same because it adds to your fear....

I think your heart is in the right place, but it would ultimately be a hindrance for him. If you can just basically turn off your voice, then you aren't as motivated to seek fluency strategies. Not to...