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I did, ended up taking a degree in performance art - it didn't help my speech any really, but it made me way more confident about owning it when my speech fucks up. I dealt with stutter, dysarthia and...

I attend a chapter meeting for stutters. And surprisingly enough several members have done theatre and acting, they mentioned that when rehearsing lines and memorizing them they don’t stutter when in ...

I’m looking into teaching, and my Environmental science teacher recommended taking an acting class. He did in college and said that it made a massive impact on his presentation of talking. So I’m sure...

I haven't taken acting classes, but I took a few levels of improv classes! It absolutely helped reduce anxiety and shyness. I highly recommend it. The classes are a lot of fun....

I did and it was a head scratcher. When I immersed myself in a character and was acting on stage with NO STUTTERING!! I also acted in high school and never stuttered in any play. The characters I p...

Hmm I’m also interested to see if anyone that stutters has done some acting to improve fluency. Great question 👌🏽...

I act for my career, and I’m 15. I’ve been in Les Miserables playing Gavroche for awhile. The show is only singing obviously so it’s easier on me. I just have a head space that’s easier to live in whe...

Is Acting And Voice Impersonation A Realistic Strategy For Stuttering?

Is Acting And Voice Impersonation A Realistic Strategy For Stuttering? As everyone here knows, there are some actors who stutter but don't stutter when they act. Like Rowan Atkinson. There's somethi...

I'm terrified. But, I was also a drama geek in school so what I do is play a version of myself who is confident and has no problem with public speaking. Works every time!...

To be fair i think they did good job with facial expression during the stutter even tho it sounds fake...

To be fair sn't all acting fake? I have a Drama degree and a stutter my whole life. Through my degree (2001-2005) other students who acted would ask me about it. It's like an accent, good actors talk ...

I'm the same way! I look at it like an acting gig. I'm playing a better version of myself who is totally confident and comfortable in front of an audience. Works every time! It also helps that I pract...

Slowly and with enough pauses between some words or sentences. I studied acting for 8 years and i also stutter. Those are the things that help me most. Telling a story with no pressure because the aud...

Have you any experience presenting? Sometimes I find my stutter isn’t as bad because I’m ‘performing’ or ‘acting’ in some weird way. I take on a different persona or something. I think it’s similar to...

Well tbh as a kid i never thought much of my stutter. And i started acting without a problem and sometimes people would tell me i stutter but never on stage. The stuttering got worse but never on sta...

Thats crazy! I hear there is a rapper from my hometown who also has a stutter, which I thought was so cool. Im gonna try to get a hold of him. When and how did you realize that you could hack your stu...

Well i love those ideas and i wish you goodluck and when its finished put it somewhere we can all watch it. Oooh fun story. I am from belgium and i studied acting for 8 years. My stutter wasnt a pro...

A 35 pws I know had a Lexus for one day before someone ran a shopping cart into it and made huge dent. He said he unleashed a tirade of profanity with zero stuttering. I do not per se suggest this. W...

We all have various ways of performing - let's call it "social masking" (in this particular context, at least) - and for some of us, some of those ways entail less stutter. Some of them entail more. I...

It sits right beside me right now, I set it up last evening and I'm really starting to love it. For now I use "Computer" as the trigger word, that way I can call it like the board computer on the Ent...