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I’ve tried relaxing my body and taking breaths before speaking and for some reason it just doesn’t work for me. It feels like someone has my words tied to a rope and it’s just yanking it backwards. I ...

Akin to blackface? Yeah not at all. It is a learning tool. Put yourself in those shoes. See how it feels. Any professor worth their salt will have you do this! Decide how you want to pseudostutt...

sounds like a great way to experience it first hand. If I were you I would try pseudostuttering in various levels of severity and type (repetition vs blocks), and plan it beforehand (like a 5 second ...

It's like you want to breath. But you just can't. You just want to talk. But you can't. The harder you try. The worse it becomes....

POV: 2 fast talkers have a heated argument with you and they constantly interrupt you

POV: 2 fast talkers have a heated argument with you and they constantly interrupt you sorry if I almost gave someone trauma lol...

Does anyone just get tired of talking?

Does anyone just get tired of talking? It just takes so much more effort to talk without stuttering and I get so exhausted. My stutter then gets worse when I'm tired, so it's this self-fulfilling prop...

Are you saying you bite your tongue when you experience a block? Is this something you're doing deliberately, or is it not something you're in control of?...

Do you mean 'secondary behaviors'? Those aren't really coping mechanisms, those are just habits layered on top of your stutter. Ideally, we'd want to avoid those, especially when they become compulsi...

Is this stuttering?

Is this stuttering? Sometimes when responding to a question, I will partially form the sentence and then pause, and then try reforming the sentence. I do this multiple times until getting frusutrated ...

Does this happen to anyone else?

Does this happen to anyone else? Ive always known that I can read or talk alone and not stutter a single word but i noticed something weird. If I'm talking to someone over the phone or ordering a pizz...

How much of stuttering is mental

How much of stuttering is mental I was on a zoom call today, and when I muted my voice, and said something I did not stutter, however when I unmuted and said the same thing, I was stuttering. My stutt...

What are you thinking when you stutter/ what goes through your head?

What are you thinking when you stutter/ what goes through your head? [deleted]...

The Push Back Factor Involved In Stuttering?

The Push Back Factor Involved In Stuttering? I think I realized something important about stuttering. I don't know if its just me though or if other people face this too. But do you sometimes want t...

When I talk, nothing that I thought of comes out.

When I talk, nothing that I thought of comes out. I’m 20 and I’ve been stuttering since I was a kid. Never really knew why and hadn’t really tried to confront it till now. I guess I’m really getting f...

They feel like I'm fighting them when I call, and they think I'm angry, but that's my way of making speech understandable without Stuttering 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️... I can't tell him quietly🤦‍♂️.. I'd like to ...

Correct, I don't think of it as my fault, just trying to put into words what's actually going on. And like I said, it's not really subconscious, it's just something I can't control with my will....

Panic Induced Loops?

Panic Induced Loops? I struggle with repetitions. Sometimes when I'm talking and I reach a word where I face repetitions with (like B-B-B-Boy), I actually sometimes panic and as a result enter a panic...

Anyone else forgot how to communicate?

Anyone else forgot how to communicate? My stutter came up in middle school, grew worse in high school and became much better during university and today I mostly manage to go unnoticed on my good days...

How Do I Stop My Mind From Telling Myself That I'll Stutter?

How Do I Stop My Mind From Telling Myself That I'll Stutter? Here's what I've noticed with my stutter. My stutter is mostly triggered by anxiety and anticipation. If someone were to surprise me out o...

How Do You Unlearn How To Stutter?

How Do You Unlearn How To Stutter? When it comes to dealing with your stutter, I look at it in two different ways. 1) Fighting the stutter. Layering techniques on top of it such as fluency shaping ...