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I'm American, and I find I stutter less when I put on a French accent or a Southern accent (I'm from the Northeast). The logical explanation is that any sort of "new" way of talking throws your brain ...

I think talking while changing your voice or accent really helps ! That's why alot of therapies include voice changing techniques. My therapist even made me consider a theater course so i could speak ...

That is common. In school, I once acted a play out in a Bullwinkle voice solely for this reason. It had nothing to do with the content of the play. Nowadays, I don't live life with an accent but I ha...

What you may find is that once you've gotten used to speaking with an accent, you'll start stuttering again. It comes with the territory: We can sort of sidestep ourselves by playing a role, but if th...

Yeah this happens to me. I study nursing and sometimes change my accent slightly on clinical's so I'm not stuttering and coming off as unsure of what I'm saying/doing with my patients!...

Most people I've met in the improv community seem to be introverts overall. A lot of people go into an improv class to "get out of their shell" like you said. It helps conquer stage fright too. Improv...

This might scare the hell out of you, but consider taking an improv class if they are available in your area. I started doing improv several years ago and love it. When I get into a scene, I basically...

In school I did my whole part in a play with the Bullwinkle voice for this reason. Stuttering for me has a fair bit to do with how often I'm saying certain sounds. The more common sounds become harde...

>mimicking That's probably a good word for it: We're doing _mimicry_, which means we're not entirely ourselves, so to speak. It's one of those tricks (that tend to drop in efficiency as we become...

What a coincidence. I'm American and speaking in a British accent helps me. I've particularly been mimicking the speech patterns of the little girl in [this video](https://youtu.be/xh9HK9HoRBw). ...

It's a known phenomenon among stutterers. Same thing applies to speaking in song. You don't stutter at all. If I speak with a redneck hillbilly accent I'll be fluent as ever. But in can't keep that up...

Many stutterers have no problem singing where there is controlled pitch and melodies and whatnot. So maybe rap, which is singing and more like talking fast, could help some people. (It might help me...

Did you invent a whole life story to go with your accent? How would that work out if anyone would come to your house or meet your parents? Or...maybe you didn't do that. Maybe you just said "yeah, ...

A part of being an actor, for instance, is confidence when speaking and putting on a role. Both of those things tend to decrease one's stutter....

Oh yeah. I call it tactical fluency. I too noticed that whenever I talked in an American accent or like Littlefinger from game of thrones I never stuttered. Its really effective for things like one...

I didn't stutter whIle singing. Concentrating more on breathing , hitting the note and remembering the words. I stuttered less with acting. Concentrating on lines, emotion, using different accents or ...

My Success Story

My Success Story Hello, I am a 16 year old boy from Vancouver, Canada who had a stutter since I was 7. I developed it randomly, do not know why or how to this day. As I began to adjust to life with a ...

If you're playing a character why not answer the questions in the characters voice? Do you stutter when doing accents or impressions?...

Must be a bit like when we're able to avoid stuttering if we know we're putting on a performance. Not saying we all can do that, though. But it's a known thing....

Funny! I'm less likely to stutter when I'm doing silly accents, too. A lot of those things where your brain doesn't recognize your voice as being your own....