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Why can I speak freely alone but stutter with others and in my thoughts?

Why can I speak freely alone but stutter with others and in my thoughts? When I’m home alone, I walk around the living room, talking out loud to myself. I say stuff like what I’ve done, what I’m gonna...

i'd also put a microphone because it's generally hard to stutter when singing!! i remember my sister saying "you can sing that without stuttering??" when i sang its the end of the world as we know it ...

How to feel confident when stuttering

How to feel confident when stuttering I'm about to go on a date and I keep thinking the date will be more difficult because of the stutter. I say ahh and umm a lot, repeat certain words, take long pau...

It happens normally! But we are special and need to work on it. I have Some techniques with that i overcame stammering completely...

Fellow severe stutterer here. Its ironic, I have a cell phone yet never use it to actually talk on the phone. I too have written things down, and made up ways to communicate what I need to, and my s...

Also, I got good at substituting words with similar meanings , that are easy for me. Works most of the time ( not always)...

Why it's frustratingly hard to explain something??

Why it's frustratingly hard to explain something?? I’ve been stuttering since I was a kid. It used to come in waves—I’d be fluent in some situations and disfluent in others. But over the past couple o...

How can i get rid of a mild stutter?

How can i get rid of a mild stutter? Im 15 and its hard ti explain but i have days where i talk normally and barely stutter, and days where i cant speak without having to repeat myself 3 times. Some p...

What absolutely hurts my soul is when I know the answer to a question but "I don't know" is the only thing I won't block on in that moment. Or having to momentarily "forget" personal information. It s...

The amount of times I’ll pretend to forget a word because I know I’m gonna get stuck on it… I usually will put my arms out like 🤷🏽‍♀️ or kinda clap (it’s more “punching” my other hand than palm on p...

Honestly I'm glad I'm not the only one who physically moves involuntarily. I do this thing where if I'm trying to hide my blocking, I'll either pretend to wipe my nose or look at something completely ...

Oh if I’m picking up food and I’m having a REALLY bad day and it’s loud I literally type it out and show them. But I have a habit of either hitting my leg or moving my arms when I get a block so learn...

I've always wondered if I could learn it and how much I could actually use in day to day life. Some days my stutter is egregiously bad and I feel like not speaking is my only option. I've thought abou...

the final answer is generally, you will learn to deal with it, whether or not your method is the same as others. it's the only option besides suicide and to be frank, most people who are suicidal don'...

Yes he is a person who stutters. I do much of the same pausing and resetting is what he is doing. It's a technique I use as well. Its actually helped my fluency quite a bit....

That’s….not how it works tho. I’m able to shove past blocks sometimes by speaking forcefully, which completely changes the message. If words come out 10 seconds after I want them to, I may be inte...

Im 23 but I'm working on for myself resisting the pressure of time and stuttering openly and easily. I find when I try to hide and pass as fluently I stutter more often than when I focus on flow and d...

I have had a stutter since I was 6 yrs. old. Like you it was worse under pressure. It did ruin my self esteem and made me isolate myself and fear talking. Two and a half years ago I got a job where i...

I had some speech therapy before that taught me that constantly changing my pitch in a singsong manner (high - medium - high - medium) was an effective way to reduce stuttering. It’s not singing but i...

One of the ultimate annoying, mysterious things about this disorder: how we're totally fluent one instance, then struggling on nearly every single word the next. In my experience, the only surefire ...