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From: Ken St. Louis
Date: 19 Oct 2011
Time: 13:05:28 -0500
Remote Name: 157.182.15.31
Dear C. Scott and Vince gave you some great suggestions to weaken the anticipation and thereby hard blocks on plosives. I agree with both of them and won't try to add to their cognitive/behavioral strategies. But here's another one that you might just try and then maybe even write back and let us know if it works. Get out your dictionary and start saying /b/ words and let the stuttering happen as you start down the list. If you don't stutter or it quickly fades out, FAKE your hard blocks. If they turn real, so much the better. In any case pay attention to what the faked or real blocks feel like. Do this on your own for about 10 minutes without stopping while stuttering on every word. Then go say something to someone using a feared /b/ word. Again, if you like let us know what, if anything, was different. Ken