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Stuttering is in your head. There is nothing wrong with you physically, you are just used to getting tensed when speaking, it happens automatically and starts in your head when you think about speakin...

Don't forget "Too busy thinking about what I'm going to say and how that I realize I'm not listening very well to what the other person is saying"....

100%. My superpower as a PWS is that I am a human thesaurus. But my god, the bandwidth needed! I only recently realized that it was because of all these mental gymnastics that I come home every day wi...

I think it’s a mix of calm emotion and the brain knowing it’s not being judged by someone else so that fear that’s triggered by another persons presents isn’t activated which enhances the stutter. I h...

Rightttt??? And it becomes worse if you haven’t slept enough the last night. It is like your mind knows that you will stammer here, and when that part comes, you actually stammer there. I think this i...

Here is my take on causes behind stuttering. Let's start with clear speech first. Clear speech requires two things: 1. Clear mind (planning of speech, timing of sounds) 2. Relaxed muscles around ...

Anybody tried a NMDA receptor antagonist before?

Anybody tried a NMDA receptor antagonist before? This is a long shot but I’m curious if anyone here has ever tried taking an “low affinity” NMDA receptor antagonist for speech or fluency issues such a...

I'm convinced stutterers are more socially aware- so when speaking with people we're notching far more social queues than most people, stopping us from concentrating on our speech...

I still very much do stutter while chatting with the ais I was super excited at first to goof around with the tech but when it kept misinterpreting the stutter  so I stopped using that feature entir...

I stutter a lot talking to AI. Its the same as phone calls with humans. ...

I stutter when talking to Alexa and Chatgpt. Stopped using the voice interface for AI....

what if I stutter when I say" I dont understand , can you repeat?" to them?...

Personally, it depends on the situation. If I make it clear I would like the assistance to finish the word or the person does it in a kind manner then thats hunky dory. The times it bothers me when s...

I actually really really like people who finish my sentences, but ONLY if their sentence is exactly as i wanted to say it, if its wrong I'm gonna get very very mad that they tried correcting my senten...

My learning so far regarding stuttering

My learning so far regarding stuttering I am M27 and got stuttering since childhood, after lot of what I ve seen and lived, I have come to these conclusions 1 - You need to accept the fact that you ...

I’m very hopefully for this 4 years that are coming.

I’m very hopefully for this 4 years that are coming. Lately I’ve been following research around drugs like ecopipam, PDE10A inhibitors, and other dopamine-related treatments. I know nothing is approve...

Congrats. I just got into dental school too. I think I threw people off literally only got 1/11 interviews. Interviews are hard to get and I screwed a ton of them up I think. But I honestly never real...

Interesting. Both me and my former speech therapist had a strong feeling that if we could somehow forget that we stuttered, the stuttering would stop. That is not to say it is a matter of technique,...

I think somewhat? stutterers are verbally less coordinated in general, so that part probably isn't in your head. but if you are fearing disfluency and avoiding situations and words BECAUSE of this, t...

Sometimes we overthink our stutters to our own self detriment. Do NOT believe everything you think! You’re your harshest critic. Seriously, most people don’t give a shit about our stutters....