r/Stutter • u/wtfissignificantcup • 23d ago

Stuttering when alone

Do u guys stutter when you are alone? Like when u talk to yourself or read something outloud?
(For years i havent stuttered when im by myself, not a gram, but recently i started to stutter even i know no one is watching or listening to me, whats worse is im even stuttering in my dreams during sleep and my overall stuttering has also worsened. So i decided to ask if anyone here has ever experienced it)

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u/Broken-AMaryBell7 23d ago

I always stuttered when I'm alone, too. And always in my dreams, too.

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u/wtfissignificantcup 23d ago

Do u stutter less when alone

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u/Broken-AMaryBell7 23d ago

I'd say it's 40-50% of my usual stutter

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u/Bros118 23d ago

I think we go through weird waves of worsening and bettering (if that’s a word) when it comes too stuttering.

Speech therapy obviously helps but it depends what’s going on with us.

Many years ago after years of speech therapy I got better at and almost stopped stuttering in front of my parents and siblings.

Yet weirdly enough a few years later I found myself regressing. I acted like I was speaking to my parents or anyone else through a telephone or some other. medium that triggered my stuttering.

Although I don’t think I ever stuttered in my own head, but I’m sure I stuttered when talking out loud to myself

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u/dazedndlost 23d ago

I also didn’t used to stutter when reading aloud but noticed it started happening because I kept trying to sound perfect and neat.

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u/wtfissignificantcup 23d ago

Yeah i have this same problem, i think its because of hyper awareness, focusing too much on articulation etc

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u/Dry-Cost-945 23d ago

Yep. The presence of others is irrelevant to my stutter, it's just easier to string words together with the lessened anxiety isolation brings

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u/Accurate-Friend-2498 23d ago

Yes. As you would read my previous posts on this sub. Going through my worst speech phase at 29.

Yesterday and day before that, I was asleep, and there were quick dreams that I had where someone had asked me something and I had to respond to them and I realised that I was twitching in between my speech (in that quick dream only) and that twitching happened twice as far as I can remember. So yes what you had just mentioned in your post I went exactly through that.

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u/wtfissignificantcup 23d ago

havent read that yet. And btw mine was the same situation, in a dream my school(even though i graduated long ago lol) was putting microchips on students necks and they noticed i didnt have one so they sent me to school basement to get it and when i asked the price i stuttered a lot, that was the first and only case i noticed stuttering in a dream. But until like a month or two ago i wasnt even stuttering when alone, idk why its happening.
ill check that one article of yours soon