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commentr/StutterMay 24, 2021
54 points

I love it when I accidentally meet another fellow stutterer. Feels like a secret club....

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commentr/StutterMay 22, 2021
8 points

As a balding 30 year old stutterer, my advice would be develop a good sense of humor. I’ve been happily married now for 5 years to my best friend growing up and my wife thinks I’m the funniest person...

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commentr/StutterMay 22, 2021
10 points

Those people who are still my friends in my 30s, accepted my severe stuttering as a teen. Try to find those people who don't judge you because of your speech, I'm sure they exist. And I used to d...

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commentr/StutterMay 22, 2021
1 points

When i was in school,two of my classmates stuttered.i was a little bit comfortable that time but now i am at university but there is no one like me.So thats quite frustrating and hard to communicate...

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commentr/StutterMay 21, 2021
1 points

I've met a handful. I got along with most but one. He had a different view on stuttering....

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commentr/StutterMay 21, 2021
2 points

This actually helped me when I was 19. Until I met with the support group, I was the only person I knew with the affliction. I only went to the group meeting once, but that was enough. I knew I wasn't...

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commentr/StutterMay 21, 2021
2 points

A ton of it is mindset, remember that you need to get out there and rejection isn't always about you. As weird as it sounds, speed dating was one of the best ways to meet people for me. Do yourself a ...

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commentr/StutterMay 21, 2021
2 points

I've met loads. My flatmate stutters, a cousin of mine stutters, someone @ my work stutters, my ex's best mate stuttered, someone at my old school used to as well. That's not including the tonnes of ...

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commentr/StutterMay 21, 2021
3 points

Only this one time around 2 years ago that I went up to chill out upstairs in the arcade. I noticed the lift wasn't working so I panicked and thought to myself that I've got to ask someone where are t...

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commentr/StutterMay 21, 2021
1 points

I don't but I hope I do some time in the future and make her my best friend or girlfriend. or best friend if he's a man...

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commentr/StutterMay 21, 2021
5 points

Last summer I was out fishing a remote lake in the Rocky Mountains. A couple dudes passed by me and I overheard their conversation and noticed one of them had a stutter, just like me. I mustered up th...

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commentr/StutterMay 21, 2021
3 points

One of my best friends at school has a stutter, a guy I met at university has a stutter - extremely mild although I was able to pick up on it. Anyone else probably wouldn’t have...

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commentr/StutterMay 21, 2021
4 points

Whats wild, is for the first 19 years of my life, I only met 1 person who stuttered (I live in Canada) Whats really wild is when I was 19, I took a trip to the UK to help people who stuttered (as th...

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commentr/StutterMay 21, 2021
1 points

I knew one guy in HS who had a horrible stutter. Far worse then me. We didn’t get along too well but that’s because of other reasons. I met an older man in a place I volunteer at that also has a stutt...

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commentr/StutterMay 21, 2021
1 points

My best friend actually has a stutter, i think thats the only person ik who stutters...

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commentr/StutterMay 21, 2021
2 points

I've been to therapy groups, and met others. Also saw one guy in m&s with a stutter. The thing is 1/100 people have a stutter (mostly men).. and we are normally very reserved people. So you have p...

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commentr/StutterMay 21, 2021
16 points

In my entire life, I've only encountered three dudes and one girl who stutter, and for some reason when talking with them I was able to stutter less (as well as they do when talking with me)....

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commentr/StutterMay 21, 2021
4 points

One of my best friends has a stutter. I never knew until mine got bad and I started talking about it openly. After I started talking about stuttering, I've found 2 people I work with who stutter. Bein...

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commentr/StutterMay 21, 2021
2 points

The only pws I’ve met have been through the Starfish Project. I live in a fairly big UK city too but haven’t come across any pws in the wild...

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postr/StutterMay 21, 2021
31 points

Have you ever met another person with a stutter?

Have you ever met another person with a stutter? Im 24 and living in a fairly big city in the UK, ive stuttered my entire life and ive not once come across someone else who stuttered like I do. While ...

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