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Not giving a shit is the best tool for getting the upper hand on one's stutter. At some point in my 20s I stopped caring if I stuttered in front of people, or if they thought less of me when I did. ...

I'm really glad that you've decided face it head on and get through. Our stutter is something that is unique to all of us, and we all deal with it in our own way. I had to set some specific challenge...

it didnt really work for me and i didnt want to deal with the constant echo. If you get it, i would primarily use it as an aide for certain situations like interviews or whatever. But there is no cure...

I really completely understand where you're coming from. I've been stuttering my entire life and I don't foresee a future where I don't. At one point in my life, I was like "fuck this!" and stopped ...

Hi! I've been stuttering since I was 3, so I don't remember myself without it. It was pretty bad in primary school, got worse in middle school (got bullied a lot, no one dared to be friends with me fo...

You couldn't have spelled out your problems any better. You're stutter isn't what's going you back, but its all the beliefs you've just highlighted which are killing your life. There are surely things...

The earliest I remember is being made fun of in kindergarten. It remained bad till middle school, that is when I got professional help. That was when good days started outnumbering bad days. Growing u...

Hi! I too started stuttering around age 12/13, weirdly enough it was also after I had watched A Fish Called Wanda. School was tough but now I'm in my twenties it has gotten a lot better/I've learnt to...

I'm somewhat apprehensive about this, but I'm going to Martinique to live with a host family in about 8 months.

I'm somewhat apprehensive about this, but I'm going to Martinique to live with a host family in about 8 months. So, I'm a lifelong, somewhat severe stutterer. I'm 20 and in college. I've taken Frenc...

It helped me a lot to change the way I stutter to a much more easier way. I don't have to struggle anymore to get the words out....

That's true. In fact I've had different results with that, I mostly do it sometimes because my interlocutor (usually my father) nags me about it. But it is indeed an unproved technique....

Nevermind how it's called, here's what you do: 1. Never, **ever**, try to force the word out. I know how impossible that feels, but if you get in the habit of forcing the word out, you **will** devel...

Does anyone else only have difficulty with beginning to speak?

Does anyone else only have difficulty with beginning to speak? A little background. I used to stutter very badly when I was young, but it went away when I was about 6-7 years old. However, later in li...

Phone calls are rough, man. I can't even imagine what goes through your head if a customer calls and asks to speak to the manager :x...

I am a manager at Wendy's and I try to avoid the phone at all costs. I typically use my best crew member that day to handle any calls that come through....

A technique I use to help combat my stutter

A technique I use to help combat my stutter Hey guys, I posted here a little while back about how being a socially-awkward stuttering musician sucks, but I thought about something that's actually been...

I was in speech therapy from 1st grade through 12th grade. I don't really remember much of what I worked on in those sessions, but for the most part, I believe it was just practicing lists of words wi...

Every time at Subway. I want lettuce on my sandwich but I don't want to feel like an idiot so I just point to it or say cabbage or something and let them correct me....

This subreddit made me realize how much I stop myself from saying stuff because I fear stuttering. I hadn't realized. My fluency still sucks, so I'm staying subscribed. Glad to hear you mostly overcam...

Yeah, I can talk fluently in presentations, interviews, and the like. But I'm a mess when talking to my parents or best friends. That being said, I think anxiety can sometimes increase my stutter, for...