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I disclosed my stutter in an oral exam and it ended up giving me a higher grade than what I thought I should have got. Cant complain though....

Only make those efforts if it’s valuable to you. Nobody else gets to dictate how you express yourself. I’ve gone to pretty large extents with some extended family members when they commented on it of...

>I just wish people asked us more about our stutter and how they can make us feel more confortable when talking Yes please ! I'd enjoy that people don't tell me to breath, don't try to guess my words...

Do not recommend speech therapy?? Umm not a good advice. A good speech therapist can truly make a difference. Yes they may not improve your stutter but self advocacy, confidence, awareness can all hel...

Self advocacy helped my son a lot. We were blessed with extremely good speech therapist in school who ingrained in my son’s brain that he is no different than others and to speak up for himself...

I gave a presentation yesterday and some of my friends still think I'm just nervous, as well as the teacher. Told them I am a natural stutterer. I speak like this and I can't control it. I was confide...

You deserve to talk in a way that makes you not feel shame for speaking that way. You deserve to be listened to even if you stutter when you’re saying it. You also deserve the patience and space to be...

(rent) I HATE WHEN PEOPLE TRY TO DICTATE MY SPEECH I HATE IT SO MUCH

(rent) I HATE WHEN PEOPLE TRY TO DICTATE MY SPEECH I HATE IT SO MUCH Like I know talk with a stutterer can also be difficult for the listener, cause the words became sometimes hard to understand, but ...

Throw myself into the fire by joining the military with a job that heavily involves talking to people. The military also provides speech therapy for free....

My best advice is to immediately introduce yourself as someone who stutters. Don’t apologize, just explain, and then immediately move to the next topic, bc you don’t need them to respond. Add in so...

I regularly say this at the start of important calls, meetings with new people etc, even though I consider myself mentally over my stutter. It both defuses the stuttering (it's already brought up so i...

I tell HR ahead of time (or whoever sent you the email or phone call to invite you to the interview). I’ll copy and paste mine below from 2 months ago “ Hi Tori, Thank you so much for an invitation ...

I'd suggest don't go to HR yet tell him you don't like the way he is treating you if he isn't sorry about it and still continues his behavior then contact HR...

I’m trying not to be offended, but I am.

I’m trying not to be offended, but I am. Not sure if there’s a vent or advice flair or whatever. Title says it all. I had an interaction with a miserable coworker who opened a conversation with me wit...

Sounds like you're just too lazy to put the work in. "Life on Delay" by John Hendrickson is a memoir that delivers hard-won, practical advice for stutterers: Accept permanence. Letting go of the "fl...

How do you feel about this?

How do you feel about this? I just had what I thought was a fairly fluent phone call with a car insurance company, I spoke a bit too fast in places and repeated some syllables. At the end, the call h...

Many of our speaking environments include strangers. If you have a covert stutter, your listener won’t even know that avoiding eye contact or unexpected pauses are how your stutter presents. We ne...

Don’t Accept Your Stutter

Don’t Accept Your Stutter Disclaimer: Depending on your severity People who are paralyzed sometimes try to walk again, walking fluently. People who have are bad at a trade or skill, don’t accept t...

I strongly believe it’s how you handle it when it happens. As others in this thread have rightly said, many many people one encounters in the workplace are dull and have very little to say that’s uniq...

not a Christian but raised as one. The story of Moses. He was a stutterer and is A VERY IMPORTANT FIGURE in all abrahamic religions. With the support of his brother, he was able to achieve what he n...