Reddit reviews Self-Therapy for the Stutterer

I recently got a book called "Self Therapy for the Stutterer" and it has various exercises broken down into nine (I think) steps.

I practice 'in my head' many times during the day. Whatever step I'm working on at the time, such as slowing down or easing into difficult sounds, I try and exercise that aspect of my speech as I think. It's not quite the same as the real thing, but it's very easy to do.

After work I usually spend 30 minutes in my lazy boy reading stuff online. 3-4 times a week I spend 10 minutes reading out loud.

Part of it was acceptance--I accepted the fact that on occasion I was going to stutter, and that that was ok and didn't make me inferior or broken in any way.

I read out of books out loud to myself every night for a few years. I don't know if this helped beyond giving me confidence in my fluency. Most people who stutter that I know have no trouble with fluency when reading out loud or singing.

This book was useful as well. It has some good exercises as well as self-reflection to be performed.

Back to the acceptance, I never set out to cure my stutter. I set out to improve it. I think this small detail probably helped. I believe I will always have a stutter, it's just part of who I am. As it is, it is now extremely rare. But when I'm reminded of it, or extremely tired, or very nervous, it will come back for a bit.

I wish I could give more advice. One thing that did work out nicely was that even though stuttering seems to be a negative feedback loop (I'm sure you can relate--the more you stutter the more you think about stuttering and the more you stutter), once I started to make progress, it worked as a positive feedback loop ("Hey! I didn't stutter!") which increased my confidence and fluency.

If you have any more questions, feel free to let me know. Otherwise, good luck!

With stuttering, your best bet is to simply own it. There aren't any tricks that are going to be advantageous and trying so often makes you seem insecure about it. You can poke a little fun ("it's my secret sex move.") but be careful not to self-deprecate. Either way, it's not the end of the world.

That said, I would practice a ton to overcome it. I know a lot of guys who use to stutter and with regular exercises they got rid of it permanently or managed it to the point where it didn't make a difference. I've heard excellent things about the book Self-Therapy for the Stutterer.