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I arranged a meeting with my teachers and counsellor and it made it feel so much better for me in class! The psychological part of stuttering can certainly be the worst part. Strongly recommend it! ...

Do any of you say "um" or "uhh" repetitively?

Do any of you say "um" or "uhh" repetitively? When I stutter when talking I usually go, "Hi my name is um, umm, um, uhh, uhh, um, gravitycloudfilms, and during this i'm usually bouncing up and down or...

Oof. This really resonated with me... I had an identical experience in school and still do at work. I'll be anxious for days before any situation where I have to meet new people, and the anxiety is ...

Firs few days of school... I dread them every year...

Firs few days of school... I dread them every year... So my first day of school is Sept 3. I am dreading this first week. Every year all the teachers make us do that f-ing "Hi my name is ____ and I li...

Thank you for your response! This was very informative. I've never really looked into speech therapy or anything because I mostly stutter at most 3-4 times a month, but I figure I should deal with it ...

A couple things: 1) I know of no studies investigating whether the moment of stuttering is related to sex hormone release (you mention PMS). That being said, given the gender disparity (3M:1F) there'...

Stuttering related to hormones?

Stuttering related to hormones? I work at my university's call center (we ask for donations) and I am usually fine, but occasionally I start stuttering really bad. Today it happened and I was mortifie...

Thank you for sharing! Before I read this, I did not know that stuttering could run in a family. This confirms my beliefs that stuttering can be caused by different reasons for different people. There...

Hey there! I remember stuttering since I was a kid, my friend's mom would mention to her that I have a speech problem or kids in school would make fun the way I talked. But, stuttering runs in my fa...

Two techniques I use to reduce my stuttering is remembering to breath and to enunciate my words, but I do agree that when talking to people techniques are easy to forget. Like today I was conducting a...

I understand your frustration. Many times I've tried to say something to people or friends when I was excited, but I started to stutter so it took me twice as long and I ended making an incoherent com...

From my experience, I was prescribed a generic version of celexa. It didn't reduce my suttering, but it made me a more outgoing person because it lessened my anxiety. As a result, I began talking with...

I did some speak therapy a while back and they taught me to tell people I stutter. Initially I thought the idea absurd, I felt like I was in therapy so people wouldn't notice my stutter. I gave it a...

Going to be on a podcast tonight - Need advice

Going to be on a podcast tonight - Need advice I am going to be interviewed as part of a podcast later tonight and I am pretty nervous about my stuttering. There are times where I can go minutes on en...

Problems with starting school.

Problems with starting school. As we all know, school requires talking and communication, and I do try to reach out to the people sitting around me and try to make friends. The issue is I stutter pret...

I feel like someone is strangling me. I become breathless as I try and try and try to say the word, and ultimately when I say it, I gulp for air like I was drowning. Kind of embarrassing but I hold my...

I would describe my stuttering as exhausting. Yes, i have learned a few techniques to keep myself from getting stuck or doing repetitions but i forget all those techniques once i need to have a conve...

I'm not sure how much of my phone anxiety is from stuttering and how much is from me just being shy....

Well obviously every person responds to their stutter differently. I spent a lot of time being one of those "anxiety wrecks" until fairly recently but I know that there are plenty of people who stutte...

I'm about your age ,and within the last year I have developed a stutter as well. It's mild, but it's very much there and interferes with my daily life. Upon researching it, I have discovered that it i...