commentr/StutterOctober 29, 2025

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(I didn't mean to write a whole tutorial but it just happened somehow) This is good while rewiring your brain to speak fluently.  When you're in this phase you need to avoid "bad incidents" as much as you can. (Bad incidents are any stuttering incidents that make you seem soeach disabled. Some stuttering is considered normal and non stutterers dont even picl up on it) Sometimes that means avoiding the interaction all together if you are not ready for it yet. Because if you keep having bad incidents you are getting your brain more proof that you stutter and you are strengthening the neural pathways for stuttering which will make you stutter more.  You should be reading out loud as much as you can (at least 1h a day) and speaking as much as you possibly can in your stutter free zones (it can be your family, close friends, or even your dog or a cat, or even just speaking to yourself) This will build and strengthen new neural pathways (fluent speech habits in your brain) and over time it will overpower the stuttering habit in all situations.  Over time you will slowly increase your stutter free zone.  For example at first your only stutter free zone is when you read and speak to yourself(like my situation was). So you do that every day as much as you possibly can.  Over time i notice that u can speak to your younger brother almost without stuttering. So u practice speaking to him without stuttering at all (and you use speach tools and tricks to help you overcome most blocks). And over time speaking fluently to your younger brother becomes easy.  Now speaking to your parents becomes a lot easier...  U get the point. Its like a video game. You are slowly leveling up your character which enables you to do harder challenges.  So the most important thing is: 1. Reading out loud every day and practicing the tools/tricks/crutches  2. Slowly increasing your stutter free zone 3. Mind training (i can explain that too if anybody wants) 

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Coping & AdvocacyAnticipation & AvoidanceIdentity & Disability

Subthemes

Fluency TechniquesVoluntary Stuttering & ExposureExperiential AssociationAuthenticity vs. Masking