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Does stuttering considered disability? Also they didn’t explicitly say “we refuse because you stutter”, they just say “we have another candidate” and you do nothing about it....

Yes, initiating is a bit problematic, but not with my own family, friends, or even when starting a conversation with a patient. It’s frustrating that sometimes I struggle to even get my name, “hi,” or...

Your title mentions high pressure situations, but you probably would say that "hey siri" and greeting relatives aren't particularly high pressure. It sounds like its the initiation of speech that's ...

Every conversation has a rhythm, timing, to it, like in a good comedy piece. Half a second later is too late....

Yes and i think block stutter is worst, like you get freezed, your system is down and not responding. you are giving your everything to pull out the word but No, you get failed. you can not do that. a...

The feeling of anxiousness tied to stuttering, not just public speaking. A great metaphor I learned was to explain it to people as if they were tasked with walking across a wooden beam. If the beam i...

Hey. ¡Great questions! **Question 1:** Some people still experience stuttering while alone because (and I know this may sound paradoxical) the thought itself has the capacity to make you stutter. ...

**Brief summary of the stutter book (2025) - provided by ChatGPT:** **Summary PART #1:** This book presents a comprehensive analysis of developmental stuttering through the lens of the Variable Rele...

I always wondered if as I hit a stutter it kind of interrupts me but like a hard interrupt to make me drop the attempt entirely with a funny surprise ya know. A much more practical version of hearing...

My theory is that we sometimes stammer because we are trying to avoid stammering. Sometimes a stammerer who has a solid technique, but still has feared words back away from the technique upon approach...

The brain has a different section for reading output and speaking output. For self speaking output, anxiety is absent where as for public speaking, anxiety may play a key role...

Thinking about what you’re going to say makes it worse. Haven’t you ever wondered why you were able to speak a word you usually block on fluently? It’s probably because your brain didn’t think about i...

Iam literally like you and because of that i asked about his therapy to see other people opinio and to give me a motivation to continue and i agree with you about the closure effort i fell it everytim...

The word “choosing” is not the most accurate. We have chosen to block in the same way someone “chooses” a harmful romantic partner to cope with something else unbearable. The academic research is p...

For this type of assumption to work, your hypothesis would be best for baby babble or stroke patients (with aphasia). I say that because involuntary speaking is not a thing. In order to form a tho...

Yes, I largely agree with this statement. It is a fact that stuttering is influenced by emotional and environmental factors. In this context, the idea that the approach-avoidance conflict is a subject...

Fantastic comment! My goal is to make the topic of approach-avoidance conflict more open to discussion.. :) what you mentioned about "based on the environment" aligns perfectly with my point (in that,...

I do feel in cases like mine it can be relevant, but I am not sure anymore if any reason for stutter can be found. I have shared my story here — I was perfectly fluent in all situations and in extreme...

I'm a person who stutters. and throughout my stuttering journey I've been deeply curious about how my stuttering works. So. One question I asked myself was: *What happens if I let go of both auto-pilo...

Research discussion #3: What exactly is the conflict between neocortex and basal ganglia in stuttering? (as seen in [these ](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yykx0T3_r21MExtsncXVcsAXOLa-5CHQJAY8tG...