Hey, I just want to let you know something incredibly important and useful which I myself (a mild stutterer) came up with =]

Hey, I just want to let you know something incredibly important and useful which I myself (a mild stutterer) came up with =] In this I'm digging right to the core about the way us humans learn to tackle this from inside, out. Think about the way we learn how to walk. We observe and watch as children others walking, at the time we aren't aware of it but we are doing it, we are watching other people and mimicking them. We do it with everything, we watch someone and to do it ourselves we try to copy them. The first time we attempt to copy them we may not be successful, but what do we do, we keep repeating it. Imagine trying to learn how to tie your laces. The way it will work is your brain will have a metaphorical box which will store information about how to tie your laces. However, to go from the trigger (You're realising that you have now put your shoes on and now need to tie your laces), to the actual action of tying your laces, there needs to be a pathway from one another for easy access. When you first learn how to tie your laces, information will be stored in this little box and it will come with a very narrow pathway from the trigger centre of your brain to the box itself. The more you repeat the action of tieing your laces, the wider the path will be making it a lot easier for information to be sent along the path. Basically, the more you practice something, the easier it is for you brain to access the relative information stored. Now, with stuttering, use this theory. The worst letter for me was 'D'. So what did I do? Every day, whenever I remember to, I either whisper/sing/say/shout, whatever I bloody want just as long as I'm pronouncing hard words to say that start with D REPETITIVELY. At first it took me over 15 minutes to finally be able to say it after attempting to say it hundreds if thousands of times, but I finally got there. I could then say the word all night because the repetitive motion of me saying it (when I eventually could) opened up the PATHWAY to the little box that allowed be to pronounce words that start with the letter D. The next day, I was back at square one, couldn't say the word, so I did the same, I repeated this for a week till suddenly, I could just, well, say it. The day I realised I was SO HAPPY. I was purposely speaking to my mum with loads of D's to just show off that I could do it, I'm now practicing with other letters now. I'm sure I'll have off days, but just seeing a glimpse of what it felt like to be able to speak properly exposed me to a whole new world. This is basically forcing yourself to speak, I won't promise it will work, but it has worked very well for me and I'm great with my D's now, iffy here and there but I'd say 96% accurate compared to 3% in a very short amount of time. TRY THIS, YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE. Its even better doing it in the mirror as you can watch yourself stutter and see what you look like when you do such as eye twitching or blinking, you can then remove that or become aware of it so if you do stutter in front of strangers, it won't appear as apparent, it will just be an audible thing rather than visible too. Hope this helped!!!!!!!