>>7096737>how do you manage with it?Mental fortitude. If I do slip up with my speech and make an absolute fool out of myself, I'll try my best not to replay the scene in my head. Because there's nothing worse than over-analyzing something negative.
>are people patient with you about it?My dad isn't. He'll usually make fun of it to try and force me to spit my words out. Surprisingly it does work .
>>7096787My problem lies in being aware of my stutter. That once I start cherry-picking which words I might stutter on, my brain will percieve those words as a threat and will forbid me to say them by going into the blocking phase and then the repetition bullshit until I finally can spit 'em out.
>inb4 don't cherry-pick the wordsImagine telling someone not to visualize a duck. You'll visualize it anyway. The same can be applied to stuttering in the sense that once you have the sentence you want to allocute in your head, and you begin to replay the sentence over and over again - your mind will start divulging onto each individual word until you get that sinking gut feeling of that one word in the sentence you have compiled. And that's when the real hell begins.
But yeah, stuttering sucks regardless of how it's triggered.
