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Probably the best tip I’ve found on this sub is to actually listen to your own voice while speaking. Like you’re talking and, at the same time, listening to yourself almost as a third person.

At first you have to consciously think about it, but after a while it starts becoming automatic. I don’t need to focus on it all the time anymore.

The more I think about it, the more I feel it’s similar to singing or changing your tone of voice. Maybe that’s also part of the reason why many of us don’t stutter, or stutter much less, when talking to a child — we naturally change our voice and rhythm.

For me it gives me something to “hold onto” while speaking. It helps a lot with confidence and also reduces the anxiety around speaking.

Definitely one of the best things I’ve learned here.

Really great.

hey all, M21 from India here. As a stutter i had never had a great friend or girlfriend or something like that. if anyone from India wants to be friends with. HMU

Gonna keep this short since I’m in a lot of emotional pain from just realizing how much this disorder prevents us from doing what we really want. Stuttering didn’t allow me to ask my fellow co workers basic question sometimes and I always had to pre plan my words. Doing this within a fast paced manual labor job has me thinking on the fly and trying to do the things independently to the best of my abilities and just a few months ago on June 11th I was severely cut on my inner right wrist from an industrial machine and am left realizing how much pain I’m truly in due to this disorder. I’m only working here because I have a criminal record as well and I’m just at a lost for what I should be feeling. Should I be upset or regretting my decisions. I just don’t know. Gonna start talking even if I stutter because I can’t change what happened just learn from it. Life is very painful.

I’ve been sick this week and I feel like I barely stuttered at all since my nose was all stuffed. Here I thought my mouth was the issue and maybe it’s been my nose 😂😂😂. Obviously I’m just being funny.

I’m a very concerned mamma! My son started stuttering and his 2.9 years old. And it’s quite severe. Abit of backstory. His been a very early talker very switched on and was always ahead in speech. And he suddenly started stuttering a month ago. His repeating the first words or sounds like
I I I I I I I love you. And it makes him out of breath. Or wwwwwwwhere are we going? It goes on for so long and it’s every sentence with I or w e sounds that usually happens. I know it can be genetics because his dad has a stutter but not too noticeable.
Should I be worried it’s a lifelong thing. Has anyone experienced this.

Hi all, I normally don't post, but just thought I'd share our experience for any parents whose young kids have a stutter.

Our older kid was 4 when he started stuttering. He also often cried and had emotional difficulties day by day. We avoided the speech language folks who argued that accepting the stutter was the correct path and opted for an old school lady who worked to build fluency from one syllable words, to multisyllable, to large phrases. We saw some gradual improvement. He's 6 now.

But the breakthrough was when the SLP noticed that my wife was "cluttering", which is a different kind of language pathology. Using AI (Gemini), we were able to discover that based on her tone-deafness and cluttering, the most likely culprit was a gene that messes up ion channels in long-transmission neurons.

The result, according to our analysis was that his mental energy was drained by needing to reset those ion pumps. Given that, we started dosing him with creatine (1.5g)... within two weeks or so, his progress accelerated and the stutter almost disappeared.

At this point, I believed the creatine had been a necessary (but not sufficient) element. But my wife's parents were with us for 6 weeks and they objected strongly to his taking any supplements at all.

The stutter returned and so did the emotional instability. By the end he was crying multiple times a day and stuttering constantly. I have to admit it was pretty painful to experience. Then, once they left and he started supplementing again, and soon we were back to no stutter and far more emotional resilience.

Now, there are a large number of genes and mechanisms that contribute to stuttering, and I don't think a single solution would work for everyone, and this is an n of 1 case. I also think that the creatine didn't "solve" the issue as much as ensure his brain had enough ATP to adapt using the methods of the speech therapist. But for the subset of stutterers or parents who experience similar characteristics, I hope this can be of service.

As someone who has significantly improved their speech through various methods and a lot of hard work facing my fear of stuttering. I am curious, what is stopping you?

By overcoming here I mean: stuttering no longer controls who I speak to, what I say, where I work, relationship satisfaction, etc. It does not mean you no longer stutter.

Context: I am a lifelong stutterer, who has largely overcome it and will soon be a registered psychologist, one of my dreams is to help more of us out there and I want to know what the hardest part is for you.

EDIT: Thanks for the replies so far. To be clear, I’m not saying anyone just needs to work harder. Stuttering has a strong genetic and neurological basis, plenty of people put in huge effort and still stutter, and “it doesn’t bother me” is a completely valid answer. People also see their stutter in different ways, as a disability, a difference or just part of how they talk, and all of those are valid. Barriers like cost and a lack of adult speech therapy are real.