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postr/StutterNov 8, 2025
9 points

My Speech problems

My Speech problems Why do I stutter so much? Sometimes I talk normally, but then I talk so fast that people can't understand me. I also stutter or can't talk when I'm in loud spaces where I can't hear...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilitySpeech & Stuttering
Avoidance & SubstitutionStress & Fight/FlightRepetitions & Prolongations+1 more
postr/StutterNov 8, 2025
10 points

Speech Impediment Tips and My Story

Speech Impediment Tips and My Story I am currently a nineteen year old college student. I was not born a stutterer, so my cause and experience may not resonate with others here. But I will still share...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCoping & AdvocacyEmotional Experience
Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentOverthinking & Monitoring+2 more
commentr/StutterNov 8, 2025
1 points

using sentence markers system such as "beginning of sentence. \[...\] mid-sentence \[...\] mid-sentence \[...\] second sentence beginning. \[...\] last sentence beginning. \[...\] end of sentence" it'...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCoping & Advocacy
Avoidance & SubstitutionPreparation & RehearsalFluency Techniques
commentr/StutterNov 8, 2025
1 points

How long have you dated him? Give him some time to open up and get more comfortable and his humor will come out in no time:-) whatever you do, don't try to fill in the words for him when he pauses. :-...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceSocial & Relationships
Avoidance & SubstitutionAnxiety & Social JudgmentDating & Romance
commentr/StutterNov 8, 2025
2 points

Makes sense, we flood our mind with our past failures, we recall time when we Stuttered on a word we are going to say next and we block on that word, and we block on a word we get more nervous and try...

Anticipation & AvoidanceSpeech & Stuttering
Anticipating StutteringAvoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & Monitoring+1 more
commentr/StutterNov 8, 2025
1 points

Honestly, it all depends on the day and I’m feeling nervous or anxious more anxious. Some days my speech is fluid and I think “wow “ then others I’m like “ damnn” 🤣🤣where I have blocking or I get st...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentStress & Fight/Flight+3 more
commentr/StutterNov 8, 2025
2 points

Make a list of some bullet points for each “slide” of your presentation. Don’t make a script to read from word for word, I find a script makes me stammer more. Then talk around each of the bullet po...

Anticipation & AvoidanceIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & MonitoringPreparation & Rehearsal+1 more
commentr/StutterNov 7, 2025
4 points

I get it , you don't want to be a burden ,which is a reasonable feeling, but isolating yourself? You're only gonna make it way worse than it is , cuz I've been through this , and I've isolated myself ...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience
Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentHelplessness & Agency+1 more
commentr/StutterNov 7, 2025
1 points

I got the same problem. In general I don’t stutter much. But as soon as I talk something I’m really passionate about something or experienced something funny I always block and start stuttering. In my...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilitySpeech & Stuttering
Avoidance & SubstitutionPropositionality & WeightRepetitions & Prolongations
commentr/StutterNov 7, 2025
3 points

You should write synonyms for difficult words in your presentation so that if you have a block then you can say the other word...

Anticipation & Avoidance
Avoidance & Substitution
commentr/StutterNov 7, 2025
3 points

1. We know we’re stuttering/blocking 2. It’s annoying when people fill in words, but not sure how others feel 3. I don’t feel the need to mention it to people...

Anticipation & AvoidanceSocial & Relationships
Anticipating StutteringAvoidance & SubstitutionDisclosure & Telling Others
commentr/StutterNov 7, 2025
11 points

There is no easy answer. My suggestion is to talk about it so he does not have to try so hard to hide it. The more he tries to hide it the more stress will build up and most likely his stuttering will...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentStress & Fight/Flight+2 more
commentr/StutterNov 7, 2025
9 points

I just found this sub a few days ago and it broke my heart when I realized that many of us cannot even speak our own names. I stutter moderately but I’ve always been fluent with the consonant that my ...

Anticipation & AvoidanceIdentity & Disability
Feared Words & NamesAvoidance & SubstitutionHiding & Concealment+1 more
postr/StutterNov 7, 2025
17 points

The best way to love is to speak, whether you stutter a lot or a little.

The best way to love is to speak, whether you stutter a lot or a little. Lately I have told myself and if I better not speak, many times even to say my name I stutter and it is very frustrating, but a...

Anticipation & AvoidanceSpeech & StutteringEmotional Experience
Feared Words & NamesAvoidance & SubstitutionRepetitions & Prolongations+1 more
commentr/StutterNov 7, 2025
1 points

You are looking at the path I went on. It's unconventional but the experts have proven to us that conventional doesn't work with stuttering. The "experts" are guessing, they know only from observation...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCoping & AdvocacyEmotional Experience
Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentOverthinking & Monitoring+3 more
commentr/StutterNov 7, 2025
2 points

I can feel it happening before I start speaking. A lot of times I will use language/words to rephrase what I wanted to say so I don't stutter while saying it. If I'm on a zoom call and stutter, I ca...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCoping & AdvocacySocial & Relationships
Anticipating StutteringAvoidance & SubstitutionHiding & Concealment+3 more
commentr/StutterNov 7, 2025
1 points

The best thing you can do is learn more what is actually going on - the short version is you are correct about the anxiety, but the good news is that if you can articulate J when alone, you can learn ...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience
Avoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & MonitoringAnxiety & Social Judgment
commentr/StutterNov 6, 2025
1 points

I feel the true restriction of stuttering (for myself at least)...is the fact I just can't fully express myself. I might avoid words or entire sentences if I feel I will stutter and that just leads to...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionHelplessness & AgencyAuthenticity vs. Masking
commentr/StutterNov 6, 2025
2 points

I find sometimes its the secondary behaviors that turn people off rather than the stutter itself. In my case I used to have hard blocks and bad secondary behaviors like lack of eye contact, face wrenc...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentAnxiety & Social Judgment+3 more
commentr/StutterNov 6, 2025
4 points

I don’t even say my name anymore, just the last name while introducing myself. I’m from Brazil btw It’s funny how it doesn’t matter the language you speak, we have issues with phone, issues with sayi...

Anticipation & AvoidanceSpeech & Stuttering
Feared Words & NamesAvoidance & SubstitutionBlocks & Stoppages