The words with s and r get me every time. It sucks having a stutter. I'm a covert stammerer so I avoid speaking as much as possible especially in group situations. I know people say I am odd but I'm just extremely embarrassed about having a stammer so I don't socialise much. I'm sad and lonely a lot of the time and I have severe anxiety.
I really like that you speak the word which u want to speak rather than Changing it with some other word Just to avoid stuttering and I think it reduces the stress caused by stuttering
Sometimes I talk with a slightly different accent to open up my throat so I can speak. I also write down what I have trouble with and show it to the person I'm talking to, like my name.
I didn't think you would see my comment, awesome! I usually use British accents and a couple kind of made up accents too. One of my biggest words that's hard to say is "ask" so I usually say "say". Such as: "I saw Bob and he said, "do you have a phone"." I'm not good at coming up with examples like that. I enjoy your videos and will watch more soon! Thanks and stay great!
Yes I see all comments! I also have made up some accents. I thought about permanently living my life speaking a British accent but decided not too. I have a lot of trouble saying my name and sometimes saying "hello" when I pick up the phone!
I have trouble saying my name and answering the phone too. I hate when I'm talking to some one that has trouble hearing, noting against them, because I'll say my name or something and get through it then they didn't hear me so the next time I stutter on most words. Sometimes I'll say a "jump start" sentence were I'll start say something that leads up to what I'm going to say (Ex. "What was I going to, oh yeah"). Also if I need a pause I'll pretend to be thinking while I gather my sentence and courage, but I don't think that's good to do all the time because I feel like it makes me look scatterbrained which I can be, but not always.
Its amazing to see how other people have handled their stutter. I have never thought of looking on here to see other peoples problems. I was born with this and went through very hard younger years. I'm so much better now, but I still get overwhelmed with it at times. I don't know about the rest of you, but I have to think of everything I am going to say before I say. Some days my brain hurts so much from all the repeated conversations I have in my head before I even have them out loud.
i think the problems we all is we don't breath while we make a sentence. breathing is the key, and that is the only thing am working on. i tried it and it work but i need to do it consistently
I agree. The past few years I have realized that when I don't breath correctly I stutter more, and when I am conscious of my breathing I don't stutter nearly as much.
let me tell you what happened why I stutter. when I was a little kid (age 5). I had a friend that stuttered. you know as a kid we tend to imitate people because base on the fact that we where kids. so I copied my friend and the stuttering got me. till today I still stutter but it has reduced a lot. I use to hit myself when I tried to make a sentence. originally I don't stutter.
My stutter is a little bit different. Whenever i stutter i don't repeat the word. I just hold the word until it comes out, is their anyway that you can help or another way i can speak differently to help my speech?
Alizah Cardenas So you have a prolongation stutter. Specifically which sounds do you struggle with? Consonants or vowels? For consonants- light touches. Say the word "May". Purposely make yourself stutter too. What do you do with your mouth on the M sound? Do you press your lips together really hard? When you say M, or any consonant sound, say it very softly. Barely press your lips together. Don't but emphasis on consonants. On any consonant sound, avoid causing tension in any speech-related muscle areas: jaw, lips, tongue, throat, chest, diaphragm, and say those sounds very softly. For vowels: breathing. Say the word "Antler" and purposely make yourself stutter as well. Chances are you will feel tension somewhere. So what you should do to help relieve that is breathing. First, stop relax your muscles. Next, breathe in for two seconds, out for 1, and begin speaking. Speak into the exhale, don't pause between the exhale and your speech or else the exhale is useless. For a vowel in the middle of a word: continuous phonotation. Or, linking. Think of your sentence as a long word instead of individual words. Don't break up the words in your sentence. And just general advice: slow down. I know, I hate getting this from condescending people, but it works (for me, at least). If you speak slower, you give yourself time to plan the rest of your sentence(s), and you put yourself in greater control of your speech because you're more in-tune with what your mouth is doing and the way your body is feeling.
I am a stutterer myself and i understand the battle life can be as a stutterer well i never thought i will say this but your stuttering is so sexy. Your stuttering is a blessing not a curse .
I've had stuttering for most of my life .nearly 20 years. I'm 22. That really hurts your self esteem and confidence. Closing eyes and ears while speaking helped me a lot. I practiced that for years . Hope that helps you too.
I use to stutter a lot when I was younger then it went away now its slowly coming back I'm in my early 30's now. But hey I don't stutter when I'm singing lol. Great video
I can relate to what your saying about certain letters that trigger stuttering. A,B,D,M,S words are hard for me as well. Even giving my name at Starbucks for my order.
Man, I don't have a "stutter" but I call it that. Sometimes I have trouble starting a word, like I go to form it in my mouth but I just can't make the noise for that specific sound. I don't know what its called. It doesn't happen extremely often but the annoyance it causes me when it does just made me wanna give you a hug every time you got hung up on a word in the video. You never got frustrated, which I found very cool. I can't imagine how annoying it must be sometimes in day to day life. 🤗
i m ur fan... you are role model of me because i stutter alot but i tried to overcome from different doctors but in vain.... you are struggling with ur life... i can feel ur pain
Hi, Minka I think that, we had fixed in our brains for instance, if we have to say certain letters which we stutter on that, we stutter it at any how. I believe that to cure this to talk oneself in mirror. And also speak confidently.
I believe you are safe from mean people on the internet because I would imagine those who watch you would be actively searching for stuttering videos. I have it on exactly the same level as you, even down to words beginning with certain letters. It's very uplifting to see somebody else who has it as bad as me! The worst moments I remember was when in secondary school, if we had a guest speaker or the likes, the whole class would have to introduce themselves individually. Always they go one by one and out loud must say their name and date of birth, which are two things I can't say for the life of me. Some of the class would make fun of me then and even in college a few people are very mean to me about it and would do stuff like fake stutter when they talk to me, which only makes it much worse. I remember once I was at a bar with a group of friends and we were all talking about the funniest tv shows. They asked me and I really wanted to say Blackadder, but I really struggle with B words. They were friends so obviously they understood and didn't mind, but it still makes me feel like a hindrance and such to hang out with. Sorry for this absurdly long comment, I just literally have nobody else to talk about stuff like this to. I only met one other person ever who had a stammer like me, and he lived in Donegal, which we left a few years ago, and I have yet to meet someone else.
Seems like your biggest problem is with words that start with a letter that is formed by the tongue touching your upper teeth and letters formed by your lips or with word that require a sudden position change of your tongue, especially those two positions i mentioned.
My two cents: When I realize I am about to stutter, I wrote down the word (in a imaginary paper) and read it. It's awkward, but it works most of times. :)
Minka, you should practice a technique called "Soft Contact". It's a technique for stutterer to keep our lips open when we say a word so an air could still flow from our lips. The problem of the stutter start when we want to say a word but our lips still close, so it creates a stutter. Example when we say "people". When we start on P, it stuck! Because our lips closed. So the technique will teach us how to keep our lips open. So when you say these words....David, Minka, Bubble, Maybe, Bible, the problem is not on the words but on these letter D, M, B, M, B. So the point is the "Soft Contact" technique will teach us how to say those hard letters.I can share the technique to you if you want.
don't take stuttering as your COPYRIGHT, never say "I STUTTER" or "MY STUTTERING" SAY "sometimes I stutter and that will decrease easily" !! I know you have something of value to deliver to the world . (imagine you are giving a speech to million people and they are smiling, nodding, appreciating.) #peace
I totally agree with you. I always used to substitute words and I discovered that made me feel worse about my stutter. I try to stutter right through the words now.
I have a hard time saying words that start by the letter "B". One of my friend at my high school name start by the letter B. It is so hard for me to say her name. I also have a hard time saying words like "Hi", " How are you" or "bye." I have been stuttering for 17 years of my life!
Hello Dhanush! How I deal with this is I try to remember that I cannot help my stutter so stop it. It's a part of who I am. I have struggled at work as well with my stutter. I try to avoid jobs where I am on the phone a lot because I get stressed out more. Stay strong!
I have tried speech therapy and personally I did not like it. However I do sometimes like to use a technique I learned where you breath in and breath out as you're talking.
Yes I have. I would always get depressed and have a lot of anxiety because of my stutter. I still get nervous but and unhappy about it but I try to be positive about it. Everyone has something and we just happen to stutter!
I'm 17 now and I stuttered for as long a I can remember. People tell me "think before you speak" be we know what we want to say. What's weird is that when I'm angry I don't stutter. Btw good video, I can relate so much.
Nice video I have this problem too but I still talk much without thinking about it and it prevent it idk how but it happen most when we keep in mind about it glad to see your video they are inspiring
you should use your stutter for comedy purposes. I have. overall I have a stuttering problem with certain word with a deep voice I tend to talk fast too and I'm also bilingual. But hey practice makes perfect keep fighting.
I have trouble w/ a lot of "s" words. What's frustrating is that my birthday is on the 7th (seventh). You can change your name, but too bad you can't change a birthday. 🤣 I dread telling people when my birthday is...especially at the doctors due to fear of stuttering. Sometimes I can't even say the word seven. I get so embarassed...sometimes I just want to hold up 7 fingers. Thanks 4 ur videos. :)
Hey beautiful girl, I have a speak disorder too... sometimes my words come out but no sounds it's quite stressful, I feel daft when I can't get them out. I know what your going through :) xx
@@MinkaLovesPineapples hi there, I may not know you, but, I have trouble communicating with people, because of the fact that I have Autism, and, I would love to meet you
I stutter as well,I remember when I was in my 12 I refused talking because I couldn't articulate any words. .I lean how to cop with it. Now I'm 49 I can speak better I'm bilingual but I stutter here and there I don't worry anymore.
Hi Minka, nice video! I'm quite new to your channel. I was wondering about your link with the Netherlands. Funny you mentioned Lelystad :). I'm from Utrecht, in the NL as well.
Hello Maria! I am currently living in the United States but I have dual citizenship with the Netherlands and I am half Dutch! I was just in the Netherlands this past May and what an amazing place it is. I have never been to Utrecht but will one day go there :) Thank you for watching my videos!
Banana is a word I can never say. Sometimes I will say cash instead of money. Why is it I will never studder if I talk to myself or read. If I have a drink or I'm tired I will studder more.
I was at a doctor's appointment a few days ago and they asked me for my birthday and I stuttered pretty bad. I got stuck on "17" which is the day of my birthday and I wanted to crawl into a corner and never come out... It's worse when I'm at home and when I'm meeting people. I find myself having trouble pronouncing words and speaking full sentences. The letters I get stuck on are "B, E, D, F, K, S, P" and probably more. I'm not really certain. The thing with me is that I never had issues with stuttering before in my life until about a year or so ago. Is it uncommon to develop a stutter in your early twenties or is that something to be alarmed about? Because most stutterers have stuttered their entire lives and I haven't. This is a pretty recent speech impediment.
Minka Koopman Thanks for answering! I just hope my stuttering wasn't set off by a possible head injury. I had a trunk of a car slammed on my head a while back and I'm hoping it doesn't have anything to do with my recent stuttering. (The trunk being slammed on my head was an accident by the way). It kind of worries me when I think about it, but I'm guessing it could also be caused by stress, anxiety and genetics.
You're so welcome! Oh wow that's really sad I am sorry. Stuttering can be triggered from different things and some people are born with it or develop a stutter at a young age Try not to worry about it. Genes and anxiety/stress can trigger it.
Minka Koopman Thanks for the reply. Kind of made me relax a little bit and not worry too much about what caused the stuttering. Love your channel and I'm looking forward to more of your videos. :-)
*Minka, you look more gorgeous with stuttering like this & i don't even care if my wife is stutter like on this video & i hope you are stuttering like this forever & Can you recommend someone who's stutter for me*
@@alifnajmi1997 yeah, once ur 9-10 your speech organs are fully developed, if we get a stutter with that age (or even above) it's most likely due to a brain injury or emotional trauma.
Well allow me to ease you mind from stuttering. Today I was going to take the bus on 1:25 and train was going to leave on 1:40. So, I thought I would take the bus. I went to the ticket station and got stuck on my city name😂😂😂. I tried breathing , and tried again, still no luck. Guess what I did?😂 I took the train because I already had the ticket for the train which I purchased two days ago.😂😂😂😂
Moses had a stutter in the Bible Aaron spoke for him.
You have the best speech ever!
The words with s and r get me every time. It sucks having a stutter. I'm a covert stammerer so I avoid speaking as much as possible especially in group situations. I know people say I am odd but I'm just extremely embarrassed about having a stammer so I don't socialise much. I'm sad and lonely a lot of the time and I have severe anxiety.
You are gorgeous!
Thank you so much! :)
I really like that you speak the word which u want to speak rather than Changing it with some other word Just to avoid stuttering and I think it reduces the stress caused by stuttering
Yes, I really try not to change words or avoid them :)
you need not have to say anything, your eyes will say everything. you're looking confident
Thank you. I try to be as confident as possible although it is hard sometimes.
Sometimes I talk with a slightly different accent to open up my throat so I can speak. I also write down what I have trouble with and show it to the person I'm talking to, like my name.
I actually have spoken in a different accent as well before. It can help. I ordered a Starbucks drink one time in a British accent!
I didn't think you would see my comment, awesome! I usually use British accents and a couple kind of made up accents too. One of my biggest words that's hard to say is "ask" so I usually say "say". Such as: "I saw Bob and he said, "do you have a phone"." I'm not good at coming up with examples like that. I enjoy your videos and will watch more soon! Thanks and stay great!
Minka Frederika I tend to do that too and I've noticed the difference.
Yes I see all comments! I also have made up some accents. I thought about permanently living my life speaking a British accent but decided not too. I have a lot of trouble saying my name and sometimes saying "hello" when I pick up the phone!
I have trouble saying my name and answering the phone too. I hate when I'm talking to some one that has trouble hearing, noting against them, because I'll say my name or something and get through it then they didn't hear me so the next time I stutter on most words. Sometimes I'll say a "jump start" sentence were I'll start say something that leads up to what I'm going to say (Ex. "What was I going to, oh yeah"). Also if I need a pause I'll pretend to be thinking while I gather my sentence and courage, but I don't think that's good to do all the time because I feel like it makes me look scatterbrained which I can be, but not always.
Tone of your voice is normal and comfortable. That really makes stuttering ok. And that is the key in my opinion. To feel oke when stutter.
Its amazing to see how other people have handled their stutter. I have never thought of looking on here to see other peoples problems. I was born with this and went through very hard younger years. I'm so much better now, but I still get overwhelmed with it at times. I don't know about the rest of you, but I have to think of everything I am going to say before I say. Some days my brain hurts so much from all the repeated conversations I have in my head before I even have them out loud.
you’re so brave and beautiful! ignore the haters!!!!
i stutter as well. you're beautiful.
Thanks!
i think the problems we all is we don't breath while we make a sentence. breathing is the key, and that is the only thing am working on. i tried it and it work but i need to do it consistently
I agree. The past few years I have realized that when I don't breath correctly I stutter more, and when I am conscious of my breathing I don't stutter nearly as much.
let me tell you what happened why I stutter. when I was a little kid (age 5). I had a friend that stuttered. you know as a kid we tend to imitate people because base on the fact that we where kids. so I copied my friend and the stuttering got me. till today I still stutter but it has reduced a lot. I use to hit myself when I tried to make a sentence. originally I don't stutter.
Oh wow, that's interesting. I have heard of one other person that this happened too actually.
My stutter is a little bit different. Whenever i stutter i don't repeat the word. I just hold the word until it comes out, is their anyway that you can help or another way i can speak differently to help my speech?
Alizah Cardenas So you have a prolongation stutter. Specifically which sounds do you struggle with? Consonants or vowels?
For consonants- light touches. Say the word "May". Purposely make yourself stutter too. What do you do with your mouth on the M sound? Do you press your lips together really hard? When you say M, or any consonant sound, say it very softly. Barely press your lips together. Don't but emphasis on consonants. On any consonant sound, avoid causing tension in any speech-related muscle areas: jaw, lips, tongue, throat, chest, diaphragm, and say those sounds very softly.
For vowels: breathing. Say the word "Antler" and purposely make yourself stutter as well. Chances are you will feel tension somewhere. So what you should do to help relieve that is breathing. First, stop relax your muscles. Next, breathe in for two seconds, out for 1, and begin speaking. Speak into the exhale, don't pause between the exhale and your speech or else the exhale is useless.
For a vowel in the middle of a word: continuous phonotation. Or, linking. Think of your sentence as a long word instead of individual words. Don't break up the words in your sentence.
And just general advice: slow down. I know, I hate getting this from condescending people, but it works (for me, at least). If you speak slower, you give yourself time to plan the rest of your sentence(s), and you put yourself in greater control of your speech because you're more in-tune with what your mouth is doing and the way your body is feeling.
I admire you not only for your beauty but for your nice and good heart and for your will to help others as well. You are very nice person.
Thank you so much! I am trying to bring a positive mindset for people who stutter
I think you have succeeded. You do it very well. Thank you.
I also stammer a lot I can feel ur pain . Because I have been going through with this problem till now
I am a stutterer myself and i understand the battle life can be as a stutterer well i never thought i will say this but your stuttering is so sexy. Your stuttering is a blessing not a curse .
As stutterer, I respect you.
I've had stuttering for most of my life .nearly 20 years. I'm 22. That really hurts your self esteem and confidence. Closing eyes and ears while speaking helped me a lot. I practiced that for years . Hope that helps you too.
I use to stutter a lot when I was younger then it went away now its slowly coming back I'm in my early 30's now. But hey I don't stutter when I'm singing lol.
Great video
I can relate to what your saying about certain letters that trigger stuttering. A,B,D,M,S words are hard for me as well. Even giving my name at Starbucks for my order.
Man, I don't have a "stutter" but I call it that. Sometimes I have trouble starting a word, like I go to form it in my mouth but I just can't make the noise for that specific sound. I don't know what its called. It doesn't happen extremely often but the annoyance it causes me when it does just made me wanna give you a hug every time you got hung up on a word in the video. You never got frustrated, which I found very cool. I can't imagine how annoying it must be sometimes in day to day life. 🤗
that's a stutter, stuttering is when you want to say a certain word, but sometimes you just can't, it doesn't come out.
You are so beautiful and so brave!
Thank you!
i m ur fan... you are role model of me because i stutter alot but i tried to overcome from different doctors but in vain.... you are struggling with ur life... i can feel ur pain
For me it don’t matter if u struggle u still beautiful to me ❤️
Hi, Minka I think that, we had fixed in our brains for instance, if we have to say certain letters which we stutter on that, we stutter it at any how.
I believe that to cure this to talk oneself in mirror. And also speak confidently.
Talking in the mirror could help possibly! Speaking confidently helps me a lot honestly :)
I believe you are safe from mean people on the internet because I would imagine those who watch you would be actively searching for stuttering videos. I have it on exactly the same level as you, even down to words beginning with certain letters. It's very uplifting to see somebody else who has it as bad as me!
The worst moments I remember was when in secondary school, if we had a guest speaker or the likes, the whole class would have to introduce themselves individually. Always they go one by one and out loud must say their name and date of birth, which are two things I can't say for the life of me. Some of the class would make fun of me then and even in college a few people are very mean to me about it and would do stuff like fake stutter when they talk to me, which only makes it much worse.
I remember once I was at a bar with a group of friends and we were all talking about the funniest tv shows. They asked me and I really wanted to say Blackadder, but I really struggle with B words. They were friends so obviously they understood and didn't mind, but it still makes me feel like a hindrance and such to hang out with. Sorry for this absurdly long comment, I just literally have nobody else to talk about stuff like this to. I only met one other person ever who had a stammer like me, and he lived in Donegal, which we left a few years ago, and I have yet to meet someone else.
"Eleven" is like kryptonite to me, it just won't come out.
My stutter words are: Resilient, Legitimate, Logistics, Good Morning/Good Afternoon etc.
What to do? 😔
Exodus 4:10-17.
You are so inspiring!!!My name is David and believe me I can't introduce myself with stuttering big time.
Thank you, I really appreciate that!!
Seems like your biggest problem is with words that start with a letter that is formed by the tongue touching your upper teeth and letters formed by your lips or with word that require a sudden position change of your tongue, especially those two positions i mentioned.
My two cents: When I realize I am about to stutter, I wrote down the word (in a imaginary paper) and read it.
It's awkward, but it works most of times. :)
That's a cool idea actually!
Minka, you should practice a technique called "Soft Contact". It's a technique for stutterer to keep our lips open when we say a word so an air could still flow from our lips. The problem of the stutter start when we want to say a word but our lips still close, so it creates a stutter. Example when we say "people". When we start on P, it stuck! Because our lips closed. So the technique will teach us how to keep our lips open. So when you say these words....David, Minka, Bubble, Maybe, Bible, the problem is not on the words but on these letter D, M, B, M, B. So the point is the "Soft Contact" technique will teach us how to say those hard letters.I can share the technique to you if you want.
don't take stuttering as your COPYRIGHT,
never say "I STUTTER" or "MY STUTTERING"
SAY "sometimes I stutter and that will decrease easily" !!
I know you have something of value to deliver to the world .
(imagine you are giving a speech to million people and they are smiling, nodding, appreciating.)
#peace
You are so right! Thank you for this :)
welcome !!
I used to substitute words. But I don't anymore. In my opinion I can't avoid certain words all my life.
I totally agree with you. I always used to substitute words and I discovered that made me feel worse about my stutter. I try to stutter right through the words now.
i also stutter but it comes and go only when i'm nervous.. but your video is very inspirational to me. thanks so much
You're so welcome! Stay strong :)
am also a stutter and I hardly sae my first name.....
I have a hard time saying words that start by the letter "B". One of my friend at my high school name start by the letter B. It is so hard for me to say her name. I also have a hard time saying words like "Hi", " How are you" or "bye." I have been stuttering for 17 years of my life!
The word "Zebra" gets me almost every time and words that start with S
I have trouble with the same letters most of the time also. I don't like that I stutter but I manage.
Just take your time or just stop and start over it help me alot I hope this help you
I m also a stutter. I can't say my first name. and its affecting my career can u help me out
Hello Dhanush! How I deal with this is I try to remember that I cannot help my stutter so stop it. It's a part of who I am. I have struggled at work as well with my stutter. I try to avoid jobs where I am on the phone a lot because I get stressed out more. Stay strong!
ok have u ever tried speak therapy does it work
I have tried speech therapy and personally I did not like it. However I do sometimes like to use a technique I learned where you breath in and breath out as you're talking.
it seems you have learnt to live life with stammering.
Yes I have. I would always get depressed and have a lot of anxiety because of my stutter. I still get nervous but and unhappy about it but I try to be positive about it. Everyone has something and we just happen to stutter!
I'm 17 now and I stuttered for as long a I can remember. People tell me "think before you speak" be we know what we want to say. What's weird is that when I'm angry I don't stutter. Btw good video, I can relate so much.
*I really fall in love with stuttering girl who has a dimples just like minka*
Nice video I have this problem too but I still talk much without thinking about it and it prevent it idk how but it happen most when we keep in mind about it glad to see your video they are inspiring
I agree with you. When I think about trying not to stutter I stutter more!
yea whenever think about what to say it make stammering worse 😂
I always stutter on w's,D's and p's.
In my case some consonants tend to make me stutter such as d & g :/ 😢
I do sign language but for the people that I know they don't know it, and it so frustrating.
k,p,b,t, a are common between us
Trust me have some trouble saying words too, I'm a 13 and getting better at speaking slowly. If I can do it so can you too.
Yay! Speaking slowly does help sometimes
I used to wear braces and now I have a bit of a stutter and when you speak it's hard to get the word out .
you should use your stutter for comedy purposes. I have. overall I have a stuttering problem with certain word with a deep voice I tend to talk fast too and I'm also bilingual. But hey practice makes perfect keep fighting.
i can't say my name also. I like this video. thanks for sharing your experience.
Thank you!
Minka Frederika : *insect the name* is the name on Netherlands
*Minka, can you please give me a answer for this*
*??? Is the city name in Washington* and *??? Is the name of the city in Netherlands*
I have trouble w/ a lot of "s" words. What's frustrating is that my birthday is on the 7th (seventh). You can change your name, but too bad you can't change a birthday. 🤣 I dread telling people when my birthday is...especially at the doctors due to fear of stuttering. Sometimes I can't even say the word seven. I get so embarassed...sometimes I just want to hold up 7 fingers. Thanks 4 ur videos. :)
Bro I barely can say the words what or why and I try to use them all the time but I can’t and it sucks
I hate that as far as having a conversation with people.
Hey beautiful girl, I have a speak disorder too... sometimes my words come out but no sounds it's quite stressful, I feel daft when I can't get them out. I know what your going through :) xx
@@MinkaLovesPineapples hi there, I may not know you, but, I have trouble communicating with people, because of the fact that I have Autism, and, I would love to meet you
I can't say Strawberry Lemonade to save my life at a restaurant.
I can't say things in certain places or people I can't say tacos at Jack in the box other places I cab
I stutter as well,I remember when I was in my 12 I refused talking because I couldn't articulate any words. .I lean how to cop with it.
Now I'm 49 I can speak better
I'm bilingual but I stutter here and there I don't worry anymore.
That's great you don't worry about stuttering anymore. I notice as I get older I am caring less and less about it actually. It's interesting.
Hi Minka, nice video! I'm quite new to your channel. I was wondering about your link with the Netherlands. Funny you mentioned Lelystad :). I'm from Utrecht, in the NL as well.
Ooh and I think I'm your 300th subscriber :). Looking forward seeing more video's.
Hello Maria! I am currently living in the United States but I have dual citizenship with the Netherlands and I am half Dutch! I was just in the Netherlands this past May and what an amazing place it is. I have never been to Utrecht but will one day go there :) Thank you for watching my videos!
Salute you're dare.... Dear
Does your stuttering get worse when you are nervous?
Yes!
I struggle to say the letters L S P D F
Banana is a word I can never say. Sometimes I will say cash instead of money. Why is it I will never studder if I talk to myself or read. If I have a drink or I'm tired I will studder more.
I totally get you. I can hardly say "banana" either.
I think your great
How old are you, and how long have you stuttered
I get nervous in school and when I have to read aloud I seem to read a different word and forget how to say it
I had the same thing when I was in school. Reading out loud was my worst fear besides giving presentations :)
SAME
I stutter when the fear becomes high n in hurry time
I understand. I've done the same thing before.
I was at a doctor's appointment a few days ago and they asked me for my birthday and I stuttered pretty bad. I got stuck on "17" which is the day of my birthday and I wanted to crawl into a corner and never come out... It's worse when I'm at home and when I'm meeting people. I find myself having trouble pronouncing words and speaking full sentences. The letters I get stuck on are "B, E, D, F, K, S, P" and probably more. I'm not really certain. The thing with me is that I never had issues with stuttering before in my life until about a year or so ago. Is it uncommon to develop a stutter in your early twenties or is that something to be alarmed about? Because most stutterers have stuttered their entire lives and I haven't. This is a pretty recent speech impediment.
I developed a stutter when I was 9/10 so I suppose you can start any age. It is definitely a mysterious thing indeed!
Minka Koopman Thanks for answering! I just hope my stuttering wasn't set off by a possible head injury. I had a trunk of a car slammed on my head a while back and I'm hoping it doesn't have anything to do with my recent stuttering. (The trunk being slammed on my head was an accident by the way). It kind of worries me when I think about it, but I'm guessing it could also be caused by stress, anxiety and genetics.
You're so welcome! Oh wow that's really sad I am sorry. Stuttering can be triggered from different things and some people are born with it or develop a stutter at a young age Try not to worry about it. Genes and anxiety/stress can trigger it.
Minka Koopman Thanks for the reply. Kind of made me relax a little bit and not worry too much about what caused the stuttering. Love your channel and I'm looking forward to more of your videos. :-)
Aw that's good. It's important to just try and relax as much as possible or you just more stressed. I definitely do! :)
I can't handle my nervousness due to qstuttering
*Minka, you look more gorgeous with stuttering like this & i don't even care if my wife is stutter like on this video & i hope you are stuttering like this forever & Can you recommend someone who's stutter for me*
You don't get face tension when you are stuttering !!!!!
You look too cute
Dang.. Your beautiful
Minka Frederika There is a reason why you were a stuttering person right or you just naturally stuttered since child
I started stuttering at age 9 :)
@@MinkaLovesPineapples there's must be a reason for the stuttering
@@alifnajmi1997 yeah, once ur 9-10 your speech organs are fully developed, if we get a stutter with that age (or even above) it's most likely due to a brain injury or emotional trauma.
Wow you are so beautiful.
Thanks!!
i hope get a wife like you. beautiful girle and brave
Well allow me to ease you mind from stuttering.
Today I was going to take the bus on 1:25 and train was going to leave on 1:40.
So, I thought I would take the bus. I went to the ticket station and got stuck on my city name😂😂😂.
I tried breathing , and tried again, still no luck.
Guess what I did?😂
I took the train because I already had the ticket for the train which I purchased two days ago.😂😂😂😂
Fuck the stutter, your gorgeous
Haha thank you.
You are a beautiful woman, inside and out. I have a speech impediment also, we would make a great couple 😉
I am happily married :)
My father used to tell me to take the crap outta my mouth.
I still stuffed.
My father used to say ; want people to think your crazy or a. Queer. Even squeezed my head once