Ugh.

[KevinEvans]

So tomorow I have a presentation infront of the class, and i'm afraid i'll stutter... Nobody in the class knows i even stutter, i dont even think the teacher knows. lol. Do you guys have any tips and suggestions?

Thanks =]

[Adrian]

Kevin, my friend, you probably will stutter. You may even get a few wierd looks or a giggle. But you will live through it and in the end you will be fine.

Probably not what you wanted to hear, but still very true. :D

[Jaykon]

remember that even fluent people are very nervous at public speaking. i even hear people sound like they stammer from their nerves doing a presentation.

good luck!!!

[WhiteLatinoBoy]

oh speaking of presentations...i sorta did one today. i kinda knew in my head before class that i was gonna ahve to talk for my group cuz they never do shit. and for some reason i was not nervous. usually i woulda been going crazy. it was weird. anywayyyy...it was our groups turn and we had to explain our sample contract we had to find and i was the only one who got a contract so i was basically stuck explaining it. this is for my business law class by the way. so everyone was quiet and i just started talking and there was some blocks and slips but i got through them. the first day of class we had to introduce ourselves and i said that i had a stutter so i guess knowing that everyone had an idea i stuttered made it a little easier for me. i tried to sound laid back as possible and calm because when ur freaking out and focusing on what ur gonna say ur probably gonna be even worse. i would just say to relax as much as possible and just stand up and do it and when u come across a block just tell the class u have a stutter and to just be patient or something. do not talk fast and just sound the words out. ive been self teaching myself to get more fluent and just imagining the word and sounding it out slowly works for me. hope i somewhat helped.

oh and dont forget to breathe :]

[emily445455]

Something that really helped me was starting off the presentation with telling that class that I stutter, and that it may take me a little longer to say what I have to say. :) It helped me a lot to see no body react.....at all...

[Jaykon]

So how did it go? Let us know!

[JFan]

Kevin...you're a bigger man than I!!!!! I choose not to do those in classes....I just felt I did not deserve that type of frustration! Hope it went well for ya!

[grantM]

Be prepared, be calm, smile, maintain eye contact etc. You will do fine. Remember also to breathe

[spacebow]

I just gave a 10 minute speech for my literature class today and it went really well. I did talk a little fast, but I didn't stutter at all. Public speaking comes with practice so just keep forcing yourself to do them.

[KevinEvans]

Thanks for the support guys :D Well... i stuttered a little... it wasnt as bad as i thought... but, i have two more speeches tomorow =/

[KevinEvans]

lol... i'm not sure if my last post posted... but if it didnt...
Thanks for the support, guys :3
My speech went pretty well, i stuttered a few times, but people didnt seem to notice. :D but, tomorow i have two more presentations =/ for English & health...

[Thecoherentman]

At UCI, I had a Civil Engineering Professor who was able to cover his stuttering in his lectures. He was substituting words, looking at ceiling, and doing many other things. Paying attention to the content of the lecture was impossible. After one of the lectures I asked him if he stuttered. He denied and said that he is not a stutterer but that his brother is a stutterer.

I guess while the mild stutterers have the ability to give presentations with ease and with some natural stuttering, they prefer to cover up in the expense of everything else. They are just as miserable as us sever stutterers with the addition that their heads are located in their bottom ends.

[WhiteLatinoBoy]

At UCI, I had a Civil Engineering Professor who was able to cover his stuttering in his lectures. He was substituting words, looking at ceiling, and doing many other things. Paying attention to the content of the lecture was impossible. After one of the lectures I asked him if he stuttered. He denied and said that he is not a stutterer but that his brother is a stutterer.

I guess while the mild stutterers have the ability to give presentations with ease and with some natural stuttering, they prefer to cover up in the expense of everything else. They are just as miserable as us sever stutterers with the addition that their heads are located in their bottom ends.

yeah im a mild stutterer. alot of people say that i dont have it that bad or think i dont stutter at all. this is becuase i hide it veryyy welll. i surprise myself sometimes how fluent i can make myself. i always answer questions or talk in small phrases and avoid long conversations. and wat u said that mild stutterers are just as miserable, its true--for me. people may think we have it easy cuz our speech isnt so bad but the fact that we hide it affects us in the long run. its harder for us to accept our stutter cuz we see the opportunity to hide it and see no need to be open about it. i recently went into the disabled office for the first time at my school and talked to a speech pathologist and they were saying all this stuff like ya ur gonna learn to accept it and not care u stutter and everyone will not care either. and i was like uhhh sureee. lol. but i have to try! i cant take this burden of hiding it anymore.

[JohanZombie]

yeah im a mild stutterer. alot of people say that i dont have it that bad or think i dont stutter at all. this is becuase i hide it veryyy welll. i surprise myself sometimes how fluent i can make myself. i always answer questions or talk in small phrases and avoid long conversations. and wat u said that mild stutterers are just as miserable, its true--for me. people may think we have it easy cuz our speech isnt so bad but the fact that we hide it affects us in the long run. its harder for us to accept our stutter cuz we see the opportunity to hide it and see no need to be open about it. i recently went into the disabled office for the first time at my school and talked to a speech pathologist and they were saying all this stuff like ya ur gonna learn to accept it and not care u stutter and everyone will not care either. and i was like uhhh sureee. lol. but i have to try! i cant take this burden of hiding it anymore.

I know exactly what you talk about. I also don't block frequently, and have mild blocks when they occur but it still has effected me much during my life so far. However, we can overcome this. The most basic thing I have done is to change my look on the stuttering to a more realistic and true view. I'm not a mild stutterer, I'm a person who sometimes responds to the stress I often feel in social situations, or the subconscious stress I sometimes feel when I'm speaking in generel, by contract and discoordinate the muscle in my speechmechanism. Maybe its sounds pretty weird but stress/fear can do a whole lot of weird things with your body. Anyways, when we realize the link between the mind (both subconscious and conscious) we can begin to work with ourselves and make our lifes alot better. Unfortunately, not everybody of us seems to have that selfanalysing skill that it takes to see and sense the connection between our thoughts/state of minds and our behaviour. Because stuttering/blocking really is a behaviour.