commentr/StutterOctober 10, 2022

Content

'Is it possible to "not feel" your mouth when you talk?" 1. as Wishingwings explained, move your focus from listening to yourself to the focus on listening to other things 2. move your attention of your voice, to attention of something else that is not based on listening 3. become tolerant against your voice. Learn to speak with your voice 4. speak without compulsion while learning that your voice and stuttering doesn't bother you 5. learn that listening to your voice doesn't have an association with stuttering 6. learn that focusing on your speech or speech mechanism doesn't result in stuttering (by learning that your triggers are not real or true) 7. analyze why your old habit doesn't trust your own body to speak automatically? Observe your mindset every time you speak to see why your body is trying to control speech. For example, in my experience: 8. **Why is my body controlling my speech?** Answer: in my experience, 9. I **anticipate** a stutter (I focus on stutter feeling and ask myself: will I stutter? To deliberately predict/create a stutter) 10. I **justify** a stutter (identifying, labeling, defining) 11. I have **discipline** to stutter 12. I **choose** to stutter (I see no point to improve, I give up) 13. Conclusion: because of bad experiences I created stutter triggers, which are: anticipating, justifying, choosing and lack of discipline. I perceive these triggers as a stutter. Then I try to hide and change these triggers (instead of 'changing/hiding' the perspective/response) which is not effective, leading to being convinced to stutter 'as if my body is unable to speak without compulsion'

Themes

Anticipation & AvoidanceCoping & Advocacy

Subthemes

Overthinking & MonitoringAnticipating StutteringAvoidance & SubstitutionMindset shift