The best technique I've found...

The best technique I've found... The best technique I've found is just not caring. It's hard to get to that point, I know. I'm still struggling with it. But today was a massive step towards reaching that point of not caring. I had a job interview today and before hand I had to get a bank statement as proof of address, pretty standard stuff. Anyway I'm in the queue and heart is pounding, I'm super anxious. ;) I finally make it to the person at the counter and the show hits the road, I'm stuttering.. my face is scrunching up a little and I sound a little ridiculous but I finally manage to say what I want, I get my bank statement and I walk away. Then it hit me, I felt nothing, no shame, no embarrassment no anything, I just didn't give a shit. I get to my job interview and there's two people interviewing me... I tell them, by the way I stutter, so bare with me. The interview goes ahead and I'm stuttering all over the place, blocking a lot and all that jazz but I'm not giving a single fuck about it. My speech is fucking up, sure... but my body language says I'm confident as can be. I was laid back, smiling and just not caring. It was great. ;) I hope to keep it up, I feel like I'm coming close to not caring anymore. Which is the goal for me. Stuttering is not under our control, but not giving a shit about it, is. I challenge you, the next time you're going to go into a conversation, tell yourself to go with whatever happens and not to care. Once you reach that point, it doesn't matter anymore. You can try to become more fluent, sure. Go ahead. but you're always going to be a stutterer, it's always going to randomly happen here or there and you can choose to be a slave to that and constantly worry, or you can choose to be free of that and be happy. The choice is yours, goodluck. :)