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Im a junior in high school with a stutter that developed around your daughters age. I started seeing a speech pathologist on and off through elementary and middle school. Mine peaked in middle school ...

This is one of the reason why I'll never have kids. I'd never want to put another human what I've been and am going through. It's not fair. I hope your daughter grows out of it and doesn't let it aff...

this same scenario happened to me at first day at college like a week ago luckily i was in a group of 5 students with the lecturer .. the lecurer asked for my name so he can write it down and i stood...

I remember this annoying shit. You have a thought in your brain and the mechanics in your mouth just lock up for no reason. I cured that by saying intro phrases that were easy for me to say. For exa...

As much as this may work, it can get to the stage where you are overusing those filler words and therefore you sound quite strange talking. Stuttering can be more understandable than saying a word or ...

This is exactly, 100%, the same issue I have. Once I get going, everything is good. Starting a sentence is very difficult. I have not found a solution yet. I'm going to speech therapy now. I'm lo...

To avoid getting stuck when starting a sentence, I use easy, flowy words first like "yo" or "hey." They seem to bypass that "block" for the rest of my sentence....

Block stuttering

Block stuttering Hi everyone! I was wondering whether any of you know what I mean by "block stuttering" and whether you've found any solutions (workarounds?) for it. Let me explain: as far as I know,...

Well, you either have two options: face this head on and just keep carrying on as usual, just power through it, keep talking, don't filter and do this for an extended period of time. If it goes away, ...

This is great! Great job! As a person who also worked in a call center, I was fucking up so many words but you just get used to it. Brain pathways get better and you will start to overcome new speech ...

Follow up post regarding my call center job

Follow up post regarding my call center job The original post is : https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/4lz80c/i_had_a_job_interview/ Please bear with me through this post, I don't drink much ...

Interview Tips?

Interview Tips? Hey everyone, longtime lurker here. For some context, I've stuttered ever since I could speak, and will be graduating college in the spring. Im a Poly sci major and have just landed an...

Is it just me?

Is it just me? 4 years ago, back in 6th grade, I noticed I developed a mild stutter. It wasn't always there, but it was present enough to really shake my confidence and make me speak only when I had t...

any tips to calm down my anxiety because of my stutter?

any tips to calm down my anxiety because of my stutter? hey everyone, I've been in a community college for a little over a month now. and every Tuesday/Thursday, I feel the most anxious because that's...

Wow. This really resonated with me. I felt the same way from a very early age about "not knowing what to do with my life" but i now know that my rudderless thoughts about the future were born out of t...

I have been stuttering since the first day I opened my mouth, but today was a good day.

I have been stuttering since the first day I opened my mouth, but today was a good day. Hey guys! I've never posted on here before, but I didn't know who else would be happy about this other than you ...

Yeah you are totally right. I have been struggling a lot with that and my natural response is to just shut myself out from everyone and hide from the world. I think i am gonna be living in a lot of ho...

Thanks for your testimony. Unfortunately, the only way to improve our speech seems to consist in going out of our comfort zone. We need to do a lot of practice. I hope you'll find what you want from l...

I feel the same way. I completely isolated myself for about two years when i turned 18, dropped out of school and barely spoke two anyone for two years. It made my stutter much worse and i completely ...

Thank you for your advice. I'm taking some herbal medicines for depression. I've tried speech therapy before. They taught me a method to overcome blocks. The problem is that this method makes my spee...