People at work for instance who are trying to understand my stutter do not understand how talking fast can help me get through. Sometimes when I talk fast it's because I'm trying to get all the words out on one exhale and I don't want to run out of air. I'm not thinking about it but seems like what happens. There have been posts here about how BREATHE advice has been given wrong by SLPs for a long time and that breathing while speaking can actually negatively impact fluency. If I breathe in the middle of a sentence without a thoughtful intentional pause I planned for.... my fluency could be ruined for hours as funny as that sounds. I really have to take a breath before every sentence. My brain thinks of words too fast and I simply cannot arrange that every time. Especially when I'm rushed or in public or somewhere no one I know well is present. The feeling I get is so much like... Ever going down a grassy hill and you're about to fall on your face but the best you can do is sort of run down hill? Once I get the words out it feels like I did that and managed not to fall. I stuck the landing lol. Speech therapy never worked in part I think because I was in a room every day with some intern telling me to breathe in places in paragraphs that did not make sense to me like no lady that's not how this works for me. If I see something gnarly in traffic like an almost miss or someone cut me off and didn't see me... I swear in the car at stupidity but when something is dangerous I will start reciting "can't buy me love" by the Beatles. I'm not singing but saying it very fast with only a little tune. If other people are in the car it's like I'm doing it in my head even fast lol. Fast stuttering, I'm not alone lol