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For me, making a complete pause with a deep breath works way better than going uhmm uhmm. If you laugh it off, people are much more understanding. I usually smile and say something like "sorry, brain...

It's a secondary stuttering behavior. It doesn't help us and we should seek to eliminate it. We probably do it because we are self conscious about our stutters or think it helps (it doesn't)....

I do. I try to just pause, but I feel like I need some type of filler as opposed to complete silence...

Oh God yes. Exactly what you said. Terribly embarrassing. I called my therapist a few weeks ago and left a message saying something like this "Hi, this is ummm, uhh, ummm, umm umm ummm sioux4...." I a...

Yes, it used to happen to me, too. My speech therapist advice: just stay silent until you feel that you are able to say what you want to say. It will seem like ages to you, so at first it may be diff...

Yeah. I used to do it even more, but I think that people prefer silence to fillers. When I hear someone using ums and uhhs a lot it just distracts me from what they're saying, so I'm trying to get tho...

Do any of you say "um" or "uhh" repetitively?

Do any of you say "um" or "uhh" repetitively? When I stutter when talking I usually go, "Hi my name is um, umm, um, uhh, uhh, um, gravitycloudfilms, and during this i'm usually bouncing up and down or...

It's a silent prolongation. Other people have called this a 'block,' an accurate description -- you're having trouble initiating the motor movements for the upcoming sound. One of the features of st...

Share your most funny/embarrassing speech disorder related story! Here's mine, it might be hard to beat...

Share your most funny/embarrassing speech disorder related story! Here's mine, it might be hard to beat... When I was in 4th grade my grade school would have 2 students (different everyday) do the ple...

try to keep breathing, blocks are caused by not having air flow to your vocal cords try not to have a bridge word, stuttering habits are really hard to break. Try to say the first word in a relaxed, ...

Same thing here. I stutter on the first word, but once I'm talking I don't stutter until I pause for breath or something. Sometimes I avoid using the words that making me stutter and use synonyms, or ...

Seems like you're just reaching a "block" on that particular sound. This is a disfluency that happens regularly for a lot of people who stutter, including myself. Saying something before it to smooth ...

I'm new. Different type of stutter?

I'm new. Different type of stutter? Hey had this stutter last year some time but i got rid of it but now it's come back. Once i started talking i can talk no problem but sometimes i get stuck when i h...

Hey there! I remember stuttering since I was a kid, my friend's mom would mention to her that I have a speech problem or kids in school would make fun the way I talked. But, stuttering runs in my fa...

It does suck. But I found changing the word makes it worse and saying hello becomes harder and harder the more you avoid it. ...

Tip 4 helps me the most. Its really good, but sometmies those fill vocals take too long...so it's weird too, but nobody thinks you are stuttering....

> I treat all speaking engagements I have as if they were serious. Before the meeting, make a quick outline, list or notes highlighting the key discussion points. Give it as much structure as possi...

I have caller ID and let the answering machine pick up any number I don't recognize. That leaves me only directly answering people I am comfortable with and therefore doesn't trigger my stutter. Anyw...

I never remember stuttering when talking to myself until after I started self-identifying as having a stutter. I think it came from playing imaginary scenarios in my head that involved me stuttering. ...

Reactions when you come across other stutters...

Reactions when you come across other stutters... I have a very mild stutter, and am in a position where I have to speak with customers. I tend to use word substitutions fairly often, and am a little e...