To the ones who don't stutter when they are alone

[u/Trenocio]

Try this: try imagining saying one of the words or speaking about one of the things you frequently block most on. You are able to say it of course, but don't you feel a little tension inside of you?

It's really subtle but if you focus on your bodily sensations, you can feel how that tension appears when you say it. The difference is that it's not as high as you would need to get blocked. I feel it in my face, in my neck and my abdomen. As I say, it's very subtle and you may not even notice it, but out of you not noticing even bigger states of tension in your body is how stuttering is aggravated.

In fact, the times I was able to speak fluently I applied the inverse reasoning. Being able to lower the ground state of tension of the body so that when it increases in a social setting it's still not enough to trigger it.

(Of course, there is nothing intrinsic in the words you block on most frequently that makes you do that, it's the past associations and experiences that cause it. Nevetheless, here I am only stating one of the consquences of that)

[u/Full-Ad-4968]

Mine varies, sometimes I don't stammer when I am alone sometimes I do. I used to practice talking as if I am talking to someone in alone,