Dear stutterers of reddit. Here is a technique that is relatively easy and has worked for me.

Dear stutterers of reddit. Here is a technique that is relatively easy and has worked for me. Dear stutterers I have had a mild stutter since I learned to talk, I'm 21 now. The best way I have ever learned to overcome my stutter I was taught by a lovely speech therapist whose name I can't remember when I was about 12. The technique is called naturalness. It is basically slurring your words together, continuing one word onto the next, as if you were drunk. It has 9 stages, each sounding more fluent than the last. Now it sounds silly I know, but if any of you out there have tried this I hope you can back me up, it worked well for me. Stage 9 is where you start, and it requires you to read from a book or anything written that you like, and you speak very, very slowly, slurring your words together so that they flow continuously. make sure to breath in-between speaking, deep slow breathes in naturalness 9 (the stage you start on). It sounds ridiculous when you are reading but it gets better and more fluent the further down the naturalness scale you get. So I stayed at naturalness 9 for a few weeks, reading every night for about 30 minutes. It was grueling and embarrassing reading to my mum but it got better the lower down the scale we got. It took about 2 1/2 - 3 months to get to naturalness 2, which is as far as i got, as naturalness 1 is speaking fluently without slurring, kind of the HOORAY I'M CURED stage (a bit optimistic if you ask me). But hey, plenty of people have rid themselves of stutters completely, so who am I to doubt. Naturalness 2 is speaking at regular speed, with normal pitch and words sounding as they should, but the end of every word is ever-so-slightly slurred with the beginning of the next. breathing in naturalness two is deep but not slow and drawn out as it was in naturalness 9. It also helped me a little to know when I would need to take a breath. I don't use this technique often, but if I am speaking to a crowd or otherwise need to sound like a normal person for some important reason, I use it because it works. Nobody has ever noticed the slurring, it isn't easy to hear but they have noticed my lack of stuttering and blocks. I apologise if this wasn't very clearly explained but ask me if you want to know anything more. Hope this helps L.