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Okay, thank you. How do I go about avoiding those in regular conversation when I'm used to doing it? Now that I'm thinking about it, though, I also will... How do I put this, groan? I guess? Before ...

I think I am starting to stutter but I don't know quite how bad it is

I think I am starting to stutter but I don't know quite how bad it is This happened once before, when I was like 16, it wasn't bad and went away after a few months. I have no idea why it started happe...

Thanks. Sometimes for your opinion. I don't try and avoid words deliberately, I'll just swap when I really struggle and like you say be an effective communicator....

Who wants to spend their whole life trying to think of synonyms and similar words? Try to not substitute And just relax. I've been having a very hard to lately and I've been seeing that if I just rela...

There's way too many 'just force it! it's avoidance!' comments here. Sure, if you want to stutter a whole bunch around people, go nuts. it's not 'avoidance' swapping words. It's being a better and mor...

We stutter, which means sometimes we have to make adjustments. I word swap all the time and I don't give a shit if it reinforces the behavior. I have to talk anyways because of my job....

I'm going to try doing this. It really sucks having to try to think of a substitute in 0.2 seconds and end up using some kindergarten level word(s)...

Where did you read this, if you don't mind me asking? :) Of course it's alright for you to substitute. We need to communicate, and if we can't, we might as well try something else. But as others have...

Sometimes I find myself getting stuck mid-sentence because I'm too indecisive to choose a word, and all the synonyms become difficult words in the moment. Instead I add an adjective or adverb as a des...

Yeah, this is interesting. It's a no-no. Usually leads to a different kind of stress and avoidance that most find exhausting and just....like they not being their true self. But if it's not botheri...

I was a heavy reader as a child and developed a strong vocabulary. In an effort to make my stutter seem less pronounced, I usually substitute words when I am blocking. I do this with people I don't kn...

The best way is to never substitute words, as it will actually add to your problem. Just allow yourself to stutter. Eventually you will become desensitized to stuttering and you won't feel as bad, and...

I just make hand gestures and open my eyes wide while saying "ohh, ya know..." then just sort of mumble into it. I think my body language and voice inflection makes them like predisposed to nodding qu...

Just to add, forcing it out will only make it harder and will make the block longer. My stutter is mainly blocks and it sometimes can be very severe. Do I sometimes replace words? Yes, but that only r...

I usually avoid the words I struggle with. What I find, what works for me, is breathing before saying the word and stretching it out (saying it very slow. It works for me but I never really practice i...

Block stutter, is it ok to replace words or force the difficult words out?

Block stutter, is it ok to replace words or force the difficult words out? I have read that it's better to try and force difficult words out instead of replacing them with a similar word. Well sometim...

Yeah, this happens a lot to me. I think it's the added pressure of having to get it right the second time....

Thought I was the only one the struggled with "R" and "d". When I was young, I went to a speech therapist and she told me I'm fine and said I just need to breathe. Iol good advice but hard to follow. ...

Definitely experienced this for a while- mainly because it tends to catch me off-guard. But if I substituted words to say it the first time because I wasn't effortlessly fluent, then it's the easiest ...

From what I understand of your story, don't think there is any reason to be worried. Annoyingly, having a block once or twice with a specific word can turn into a habit *very* quickly due to associati...