I’m going to echo Coach Leah (or Tasneem in this thread), don’t try to fix your stuttering in one day. Take it a day at a time and make the next step a priority until you master it, then move on to the next one, whatever that may be for you. For me it took a few months to make the habit of all of it.

Non-stutterers talk to other people like they walk around everyday. It’s not anything special unless it’s a really important person they’re speaking with. For stutterers every conversation is something they have to think about, prepare for, worry about, try to avoid, freak out about, and so on…

Part of learning crutches for me was to realize that other people don’t care that much about how you talk, just what you’re saying. So take your time, focus on stopping when you hit a stutter, count one thousand one…. one thousand two… pull out a crutch, and continue.

We aren’t bomb technicians here, two seconds won’t kill anybody.

I don’t think anyone is actually proud of their stutter deep down inside… even if they say they are. We all know it is a hellish nightmare of which we cannot wait to wake up from, and those of us that have, there’s nothing like it.

Like Tasneem, I do it while driving. It’s perfect for me because I do a lot of driving at work so I have plenty of time to “talk to myself” as Lee puts it.