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I agree. Fluency shaping is not effective for a lot of people who stutter. Check out Avoidance Reduction Therapy https://www.sisskinstutteringcenter.com/arts It completely changed my life....

I would happily tell people over lunch about recent books or movies I enjoyed without feeling like doing a disservice to the works by blocking here and there on the story....

It can but when im confident im really extroverted Can't have any fear and it helps to know the people around you and mostly avoid words i struggle eith or sounds like my name or thr b sound but mostl...

i have selective mutism and pretty severe social anxiety mostly due to the fact that i stutter, so my life would be very different. i would actually be able to socialise...

It is. I hate meeting new people. I try to avoid it. The worst part is that reaction is the best reaction I can get while meeting new people. The worst one is mockery and laughter,...

I don't think it would make a major difference. But I think I would be more comfortable talking in Spanish. When people hear me speak Spanish, they'll hear my stutter and assume I can't speak it 😭 I ...

I would do more random chit chat with strangers when standing in queues etc but other than that not much changes....

It’s really sad that you are letting your stutter control every aspect of your life. You say it left you with no choice? The stutter didn’t put a gun to your head and tell you to lie to girls, you cho...

Luck is a social construct. Do you think luck has ever explained anything in life?? Luck is what you blame on bad things happening instead of looking in the mirror. What is this random you’re speaki...

With me , I'm not sure if you remember couple months ago, I posted about the ( Pausing technique ) I was using. Got that from a YouTube video but it really worked well. I'd pause after every word with...

Cluttering help:(

Cluttering help:( I'm 15 years old and I think I recently or possibly last year developed a speech impediment called cluttering. I speak too fast, my words mash together, I sometimes stutter at the st...

Dont prepare it at all, just wing it. That removes most stuttering, because you arent thinking about the words anymore, you are just trying to find the words. And use a lot of body language to really ...

When i give a presentation i usually stutter on the first word so if i know that i am gonna block on a certain word either i skip the first letter of the word or skip the word entirely. And after i ...

I mainly stutter on my vowels (words that begin with Y, W, or I) and for my what helped the most, was doing this word substitution method. Its really hard to put into words but this is how I do it but...

I mainly stutter on my vowels (words that begin with Y, W, or I) and for my what helped the most, was doing this word substitution method. Its really hard to put into words but this is how I do it but...

I wasn't saying fluency can't be learned bc you can use strategies and techniques to make it manageable but you can't rewire you brain to not stutter. Also just because she was a school speech therapi...

I've been in speech therapy for around 10 years from like 6th grade to senior year of high school and I only got out of it bc she said I had learned everything about stuttering that she could teach me...

Genuine Question and Thoughts

Genuine Question and Thoughts So I've been thinking this for awhile now I don't know if I'm alone in this or if other people have thought about this but why don't we just learn ASL. I mean we struggle...

I feel blocks coming while talking to AI but it's easy to get around them....

Hey, thank you for comment. I am generally good person, I don't want others to suffer. For example, I stopped playing soccer (which I extremely loved) because of multiple knee surgeries, but I am ver...