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What helped me with acting was focusing on my character. The more I tried to embody someone else, the less I felt like myself—i.e. a stutterer. Learn your lines then jump into your character’s skin. ...

The movie IT Georgie’s brother had a stutter and I wouldn’t count it but one character the Asian girl in glee faked a stutter...

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Exposure therapy. You need to be talking as much as possible in situations you're super uncomfortable. Meanwhile, learn how to mask. Switch headspaces from you to an authority character. You need to b...

speaking another language: yes speaking in an exaggerated accent/imitating somebody: stuttering is reduced by 95%...

Yes, this is a known phenomenon. Speaking in an accent greatly diminishes my stutter, but only for a while. Your brain eventually produces the same anxiety towards the same block once the novelty wear...

Example of me using my quick thinking thesaurus and impersonations. I still have trouble with P’s and B’s. I can’t tell my 7 year old to, “Put that back where you got it.” It’s so easy and straight...

I had a severe stutter from 4 yrs old until my 11th grade year in high school. Speech therapy, relaxing, taking a deep breath, breathing from my diaphragm, and slow “turtle talk” helped, but didn’t f...

When I do joke voices I sometimes stutter more, especially if trying to do an accent, it's like the extra effort in manipulating my voice takes away from the effort of controlling the stutter, so I st...

In my experience, it is a mental thing. This is not to say that other people don’t have other issues. 🙏 I have found that when speaking on stage, my stutter disappears. It’s as though when I’m an ...

In my experience, it is a mental thing. This is not to say that other people don’t have other issues. 🙏 I have found that when speaking on stage, my stutter disappears. It’s as though when I’m an...

I reckon it's one of two things. a) The voices. Acting out characters and especially their unique voices I think readjusts your throat to produce all the varying tones, pitches, etc etc.  b) Press...

Ever tried DnD?

Ever tried DnD? I noticed this about my stuttering recently, since in the last weeks I got into one of those very bad stuttering periods. When I play DnD with my friends I lean into heavy roleplay, so...

I just gave my students an unhinged safety brief.

I just gave my students an unhinged safety brief. I am an Adjunct professor at my local University where I teach Respiratory Therapy. I am also a retired Army Combat Medic/Paratrooper. One of my favor...

ADHD + Stutter: A Reading Trick That Helps Both

ADHD + Stutter: A Reading Trick That Helps Both I wanted to share a little trick that’s been surprisingly helpful for me as someone with both ADHD and a stutter. When I read out loud, I pretend I’m...

Do you think when you do public speaking you almost take on a different persona? Does it help knowing exactly what you are going to say?...

no kidding!  i play this hammy middle aged lady who sounds a little like a gravelly jimmy durante and i dont think i have ever stuttered while in Buri's character...

As a kid I knew another kid who basically cured his own stutter by acquiring an accent. Parents took him out of SLP sent him to voice coaching after he started from scratch from I assume movies or TV....

the brain is so funny!  i love that acting and singing can sometimes override stutters, because even though i am mostly comfortable with it being a factor of my speech, i would be frustrated if it mes...

I once saw someone solve the problem of blocking and stuttering by imitating a famous person’s speech, meaning,he changed the way he spoke...