About those who got rid of stuttering.......

[AMANS]

:rolleyes:

[Antman5434]

there's no possible way to get rid of stuttering, it stays with you forever. By getting rid of stuttering, do you mean passing by as a fluent speaker? When i was 18 i saw a fluency specialist and i can "pass" as a fluent speaker but i still have my stuttering moments every now and then.

[Perad]

The only cure is growing out of it. If you cannot grow out of it then you will always stammer. This means that you have to work to be fluent, you stammer will be still be there but you will be able to control it.

I found a website promising fluency and how "he beat his stammer" but in truth he hadn't. He had found 99% fluency, in the voiceover of him you could tell at 2 points where he was controlling the stammer and not just chatting. He was fluent but his voice changed slightly. Like he was really attempting to say the word softly and slowly.

With enough practice on the right techniques you can gain like 99% fluency. If you can maintain this then you have effectively beaten your stammer.

[Gary1450]

You have to reshape the way you think as well.

Stuttering is complex, not just reading out loud as preparation for actual conversation.

I have an intense fear of introducing myself to large groups of people. It's my thought process more than anything.

[studentdoc]

For those of you who are bashing potential cures and saying there is no way for 100% but only 99% - why don't you pay attention to your friends and family very closely - you will notice everybody sometimes gets caught up and stutters once in a while. Former stutterers might panic in this situation but I don't think ANYBODY in the world is 100% fluent.

[Jeff99]

There is no Cure so you can't ever be cured but you can overcome the speech part on stuttering with practise and will power you can control the stutter but it will always be there even if it never comes out.

[Gav]

Everyone does stammer to a certain degree but in no way is it similar to someone who has to live with a stammer. If i got stuck on the occasional word and didn't realise then I would be happy but its the constant worrying and fear when forced into an awkward situation, so i can not see how there would ever be a cure because the problem is more mental than physical. It may have started as something physical when we were kids but it grows as we grow up and gets inbed into our character, like a regional accent.

[tomtankman]

I am like you AGOFCR. I can give a fluent speech to 50 people but will often stammer very badly talking to one person. To give that fluent speech is so draining though. I have to mentally rev myself up to the max.

[Supercell]

Of course you can be cured of a stammer. It's ludicrous to think you can't. Most stutterers stutter because of anxiety, making it an anxiety disorder. Psychotherapy can be very effective at reducing the anxiety of any anxiety disorder. Speach therapy should be a last resort.

If you had a tree you wanted rid of, would you cut off its branches so it's still there but less noticeable or attack its roots and kill the f***er?

[Standingtall]

I personally think the root of the problem is in our development. I didn't know I had a problem and that it is call 'stuttering', until a teacher brough it to my attention in the 4-5th grade. My girls don't know they stutter. We are not born with a language, imagine coming out and saying Hi Mom, dad and to the doctor. If it is a gene, then what turns it on or what buttons activitates it. I had two things that played havoc to my confidence and those are my looks, and my stutter. Or my stutter and my looks. I think it was my looks and then my stutter and for awhile, both. I had interest and when I didn't respond, they must have thought I was not interested. They didn't know inside I was excited but scared. When they thought I was not interested, they moved on. I was quick to blame my stutter or/and my looks. After awhile, I add my personality and the list grew. I don't know if I can put all my blame on my stutter, for being shy.

I find that when I add emotion to the stories I read to my girls, I don't stutter as much, 90% fluent. I guess that is why Bruce Willis is so successful as a actor. So, today when I give my words feelings, I can be in the mid 90% fluent when talking to a large crowd or to a person. It is tiring when you put so much of yourself into your speech, I too feel drained, but yet satified. What do you guys/gals think.

[Standingtall]

[QUOTE=Power of threeI interpret what you call "emotion" as "expression". I'll try and put it this way. I imagine that we have all fooled around, speaking in different accents, and I bet the majority of us find that we are more fluent using that accent, but only for a short while. I reckon this is because we are expressing the vowels more which, as far as I know, is what creates different accents of the same language.
And that expression allows us to overcome the hurdles of blocks, etc because we are concentrating on the accent\emotion (and hence the vowel sounds) and not on possible blocks, etc.
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Hey P.O.T, how's it going, eh!
I had a wonderful supervisor, but he spoke in a montone voice. Yes, "indication of feeling, character, etc., as in the voice, or in artistic execution". I see I have to be careful how I use my words around you. When I read to my girls for example, Dora the explorer, I try sound scared or happy, or surprised when it is called for. I am acting the part and to give life to the story, so my girls can enjoy it more. Seeing their eyes focused on you and you can see their expressions they are enjoying what you are reading to them. It is priceless.

[andrewg818]

I beg to differ. I have overcome, not outgrown stuttering... If I had to put in quantitative percentages.. I'd say about 99.99999999%...that's more fluent than most people. Do I "control" my speech? Sure...but I conditioned myself to make that control an automatic, subconscious part of me.. My control techniques replaced stuttering as my new learned behavior..So, no-- I don't "hide" or obscure my speech.. It's an easy subject I can talk about w/ anyone I meet.. But stuttering and the negativity surrounding it? All gone.