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I know what you mean. I know many people with social anxiety disorders, even worse than mine, and they do not stutter one bit. I’m taking anti-anxiety medication which helps a tonne with my anxiety P...

Like I said, social anxiety plays a vital role in this equation. If I can reduce the physical and mental stress during social interactions and try to emulate my speech pattern when I talk to myself, I...

It's not like the principles I've said are only applicable for me. Many people who stutter share the same traits, symptoms and can be helped through the same or similar strategies....

Yeah. What you explained are the "speech tools". They are basically any tactic you use to to avoid a stutter. The less you hear yourself stuttering the faster your brain is gonna rewire. Also the more...

As I said, I’m old lol. I’m not up with the state of the art that has evolved, so my advice may not be any good anymore. The most obvious one for me was word substitution. I could not, for example, ...

What did you do to mask it and almost fully overcome it? Reading and "speech tools/crutches"? Thats what im doing and im getting better and better....

Yup. Video games were my only way to connect wuth people. Through chat. But im happy that i can finally say that i have social life irl. Hard work pays off. Reading out loud is the foundation for over...

For me the worst thing about stuttering was the fear of speaking to people. I was ashamed. Over the years I did all the things to mask it and I became an expert it hiding it. My wife just asked me w...

I feel so much more fluent when I work in customer service, like the first day I might be stuttering more but by the end of my work week I feel like I can say anything, idk...

i think i repeat just to sound fluent like "Mmmmm- Mmmmm Mmmy(3 times repeated) na-na-na-na-name(4 times repeated) is John". Repetition must be leaned response to sound fluent when we stuck and restar...

I build maps for the Forest Service. My first job was answering the phones and doing customer service at a skydiving facility close to my house. It was a struggle starting out with my stutter but even...

To see the impatient stare in others because you can't finish a sentence fast enough, the physical pain as you just can't use your vocal apparatus rightly, the lack of vocabulary 'cause sometimes isn'...

absurdism is also a good philosophy that can apply to avoidance reduction. stuttering itself is absurd...

Beta blockers (propranolol ) improves fluency indirectly by reducing the physical symptoms of anxiety and adrenaline overload. You take it as needed before a stressful speaking event....

Trying to say something at work or with friends but ending up silent because you dread the stutter...

Accountability partner wanted -- working through ARTS (Avoidance Reduction Therapy for Stuttering)

Accountability partner wanted -- working through ARTS (Avoidance Reduction Therapy for Stuttering) A little about me -- I'm 37, around 8% disfluency, and wanting to fully confront my speech head-on. I...

Being unable to put your absolute best foot forward in a job interview because you cannot eloquently articulate your answers....

In fact, when I'm lying in bed with my girlfriend, I whisper because it's impossible for me to talk casually without blocking myself....

Its not really them that have a problem, they accept it. Its just me that distanced myself from my parents. I feel tired of talking. Feels like a chore. They may tolerate my stutter, but i dont. Espec...

It worked for me once with a client when I first started out.  I could feel the block incoming strongly and began to tone myself down to a whisper as if I was a bit shy.  Surprisingly could talk on fi...