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I have an interview this week, any tips? 29M, i struggle to get words out when i get anxious, i can talk to my girlfriend and parents fine but when it comes to presentations , interviews or public speaking i get word blocks. Had this since birth, speech therapist said “i would grow out of it”.

I have an interview this week, any tips? 29M, i struggle to get words out when i get anxious, i can talk to my girlfriend and parents fine but when it comes to presentations , interviews or public spe...

AI’s are pretty much text prediction machines and if there’s one thing I hate it’s people who say the word they think I’m trying to say....

I practice my presentations aloud by myself a few times. I will stutter, but I won't be surprised when I give it in front of other people. You got this....

worst thing for me is not being able to express who i am sometimes or being scared to say what i want without looking goofy. sometimes people will shrug off what i say if im going through a moment of ...

Sales and estimates, talk on the phone, knock on the door and chat with them, things I used to think were never going to be for me.  Went from computer science (to work more on the back end) and cla...

Sorta in a way. People don’t usually trust what I’m saying because they think I don’t know what I’m saying. So after I directly tell them the information, they go ask another person the same exact qu...

Dude with a stutter u gotta do things while being scared but confident Also things that really help me is taking words out that u stutter with a lot and replacing them with words that I’m confident i...

It's the same for me, but when the flow is interrupted because the other party is talking, if they are not mindful and inclusive simply because of their nature and style of talking, it's very hard to ...

Once I start talking, I can flow through pretty well. It's typically the introduction and beginning of a conversation when I struggle....

I had to give a speech in college, I was so mortified I ended up crying mid speech. This was in 2019. So my only advice is if it won’t matter in 5 years, don’t let it matter for more than 5 minutes. I...

Presentation coming up any advice?

Presentation coming up any advice? I have a big history presentation coming up any tips or advice? I haven’t done a presentation in a long time because I’ve been avoiding them, I told my teacher I hav...

This is the exact technique I use but unfortunately, it does not really work during conversations where I have to interrupt someone to insert my argument and I can even come off as weird....

It's great that you want to improve yourself and overcome your fears. I will talk to you based on my own experience (which may differ from one person to another according to many factors). I'm also a ...

This sounds like a fairly standard covert stutter, where your goal of “complete fluency” is causing the problem. I’m guessing your therapist wasn’t trained to treat dysfluency, as many SLP’s are sadl...

Honestly, I was still nervous as all heck talking to that costumer back then but there was no tightening blockage feel once I went down to a whisper. I got it from a YouTube video I will try to find a...

The other day my friend called me while I was at the mechanic, and I had to whisper through the phone to tell him that I couldn’t speak because the people here thought I was mute....

I’m either 100% fluent or blocking on each word for 20 to 30 seconds, there’s no in between.

I’m either 100% fluent or blocking on each word for 20 to 30 seconds, there’s no in between. My stutter is mostly long blocks and moments where I completely blank out and don’t know what I want to say...

Becoming a group leader of semester project

Becoming a group leader of semester project Hello guys, i just started my First semester of university, and i want to become confident and get rid of the Fear of Stuttering and not feel embarrassed ab...

I don't know, but to learn to improvise it's good, I still don't know how to take advantage of it, but talking to him with voice chat is better than not talking to anyone at all...

All of that, Vortesian. I’m old too, and people tell me they don’t even notice my stutter, as I work around it. I’m a master of word substitution, but the mental gymnastics of having to stay 6–7 words...