Confidence helps. For me it was changing schools at 14, being near people who didn’t know my shortcomings gave me the confidence to succeed at talking that 6 years of speech therapy couldn’t.
Nowadays when I’m mega nervous I still get tripped up by preglottal plosives like the Hard C in cat. I learned to speak alliteratively in those times because it makes me feel like I’m singing and I never stutter while I sing.
Ah that makes sense. I had a noticeable stutter myself until I was about 25, and then I joined a gym and it magically went away
Confidence helps. For me it was changing schools at 14, being near people who didn’t know my shortcomings gave me the confidence to succeed at talking that 6 years of speech therapy couldn’t.
Nowadays when I’m mega nervous I still get tripped up by preglottal plosives like the Hard C in cat. I learned to speak alliteratively in those times because it makes me feel like I’m singing and I never stutter while I sing.