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why for me does it make my speech blocks a lot worse? I can hardly speak when drunk. ...

just for extra info downers such as alcohol make it a lot worse...

I'm only ever perfectly fluent when I'm on my own or when on drugs. But yes fluency is a little better with my parents but I have bad speaking days with them sometimes too. The only other time I have ...

Please go ahead, I am open minded. Obviously stuttering is a complex issue and differs per person, but for me stuttering must be a mental problem due to me having fluency most of my life then suddenly...

Alcohol usually makes my stuttering worse. I think this is caused by the loss of control over my speech muscles. There are other stutterers out there who stutter more on alcohol while others get more ...

Alternatively, maybe you actually don't stutter less, but you're less aware of your stuttering. This is the fundamental flaw of the self-report of changes to stuttering frequency / severity under the ...

I actually stutter more when I get high. My mind races and when I speak it's like I can't get the words out fast enough. The best part is I'm less concerned about it when I am high, even though the bl...

When you are drinking your mind becomes relaxed. I can remember meeting a lot of nice girls in my younger years while drinking, having the time of my life. I could never call them while sober due to m...

oddly enough, I still stutter when I'm high, or at least I still stutter to an extent. Maybe I'm just not high enough lol....

That's fascinating! I never actually noticed how stuttering increases as the complexity of the speaking task increases, but thinking on it now, I totally see what you mean. Alcohol definitely dumbs do...

SLP here, there are many factors as to why some people are fluent when drinking. One reason could be your are not "thinking" about what your are going to say as much. When tipsy ideas and words jus...

You don't stutter when you're drunk the same reason you woke up with that tribal tattoo on your face; alcohol affects neurotransmitters (GABA/Glutamate/Dopamine) in the brain that regulate how you fee...

Part of stuttering is the worry before hand. Once you cut out the emotional part it isn't such a big deal. When you're drunk you don't care what others think and you just enjoy yourself. As you said b...

When I get drunk, I don't stutter?

When I get drunk, I don't stutter? If I'm sober I'm practically guaranteed to stumble at least once per sentence. However, I've noticed that my stutter becomes less and less noticeable the drunker I g...

My sutter isn't bad, but it's definitely still there. BUT I can spit a macklemore or eminem song without even thinking about it and not block at all. There is another rapper that has a stutter and h...

haha unfortunately the worst kind of people have them, but you gotta find some friends who know someone who someone else blah blah, but that is very itneresting. I'd be interested in the future to see...

Yea I'm a habitual weed smoker and it definitely doesn't help my speech, but downers like alcohol or lorazepam slightly help with the anxiety part of the impediment. It is very complex all the elem...

LSD and Shrooms made my blocks a whole lot worse whilst I was tripping. However, on stimulants I do not stammer at all and have all the confidence in the world Alcohol and other downers also make it ...

Yes, when with close friends I would stutter slightly, in a room full of people I don't really know, it comes out. When drunk I just slur my words....

do you stutter less when in low stress situations? how about when youre drunk?...