Stuttering Support Group

Stuttering is a speech disorder in which the flow of speech is disrupted by prolongations, repetitions, and blocks of sounds, syllables, words or phrases. Give advice, share your story, and find any support you might need here.

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Being aware of stuttering helps prevent it?

fallenwings
fallenwings
I feel childish again, im so stuck with this stuttering, but oddly, the more i think about it, the less i stutter, so it seems, i ordered at mac, at the drive through, for the first time ever... without stuttering once, which happens at times too, but i was surprised. Its like the more conscious I am of my stuttering, my brain or whatever, acts like it knows this and prevents it? its odd.
Has this kind of " ironic " experience happened to anyone else..? :(

Was this just a "spure of the moment " for my stuttering?
deleted_user
deleted_user
Interesting. it seems that the more I think about it, the worse I stutter. if i dwell on it too much then I stammer, block sounds and can't talk. if I ignore it or don't think about it then it does not seem so bad or disappears. When I focus on my speech too much it gets worse.

I think I know what you mean about feeling childish, that child inside me, is the one that went through stuttering every day all day, and agonized over it. I don't know if that is what you meant or not but that feeling of being childish makes me go back in time to when it was really out of control
Glad that you have those times of not stuttering