postr/StutterAugust 19, 2025

Managing Speech Anxiety

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Managing Speech Anxiety Good morning to all. First day of school today and before I would be feeling a lot nervous because of my speech anxiety but over the summer I’ve been doing a lot of reading aloud and self affirmations like the World Stop Stuttering Academy says to do and while I still feel anxious, I feel like it’s not at 100% anymore. Maybe now 40% perfect which is progress. I’ve been training and working hard everyday to get to a point where I’m no longer detected as a stutterer and I want to reach it by the end of 2025. I must say there are a lot of stuttering groups and I joined them all but most talk about acceptance and I don’t want to accept mine because alone or with close people I don’t stutter, it’s only when I meet strangers or talk in large groups, but I will manage it better one day. There’s a group who meet every Saturday and they offer me valuable tips and I’ve been attending loads of there meetings and just taking notes all summer. Here’s a good recent one in which I took a lot of notes on: https://youtu.be/_Fse-uvzecg?feature=shared

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Coping & AdvocacyEmotional ExperienceSchool & Work

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Mindfulness & BreathingMindset shiftAnxiety & Social JudgmentPublic Speaking