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commentr/StutterJan 12, 2026
3 points

You’re on a good week. When it doesn’t work anymore in an important situation down the line, don’t beat yourself up too much...

Causes & Variability
Severity & Fluctuation
commentr/StutterJan 12, 2026
5 points

I think it takes time and patience to see if it actually helps because as you know stuttering has good days and bad days. Sometimes placebo might cause improvements in the short term but when your str...

Causes & VariabilityMeds & Substances
Severity & FluctuationHelpful Med Outcomes
commentr/StutterJan 12, 2026
1 points

For written, I would rate 7/8 and for verbal, 5-6 majorly due to stuttering :/...

Causes & Variability
Severity & Fluctuation
commentr/StutterJan 12, 2026
16 points

What was the job for? Did you say that you stutter in the interview? At the bottom of my CV it says I have a stutter. In interviews, I say I have a stutter and it is a little worse in interviews bec...

School & WorkSocial & RelationshipsEmotional Experience
Employment & CareerDisclosure & Telling OthersAnxiety & Social Judgment+1 more
commentr/StutterJan 12, 2026
1 points

I see myself stutter more often with my family, sometimes with friends, and sometimes with teachers. But the change I see the most is with family because in the past 2 years I stutter much less than 3...

Social & RelationshipsSchool & WorkCauses & Variability
Family Support & ConflictFriendships & BelongingSchool & Academic Life+1 more
commentr/StutterJan 12, 2026
2 points

That's literally what I recently started doing, and it works. I still stutter, sometimes badly, but it gets easier the more I speak through it....

Causes & VariabilityCoping & Advocacy
Severity & FluctuationFluency Techniques
commentr/StutterJan 11, 2026
3 points

I don't like the word 'cure' because it's really vague and implies being 100% rid of your stutter. I think the goal for most is getting it down to a very low spm (stutters per minute) rate. My dad had...

Causes & VariabilityIdentity & Disability
Severity & FluctuationMedicalization / Neurodiversity
commentr/StutterJan 11, 2026
11 points

Meetings used to stress me out too in a similar way to what you’re describing when I was younger (I’m 38, so it’s not like I’m old lol). I’d be worried that I’d embarrass myself or people wouldn’t tak...

Causes & VariabilityEmotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Severity & FluctuationAnxiety & Social JudgmentAcceptance & Pride+1 more
commentr/StutterJan 11, 2026
1 points

I was able to do it. I had a type of stutter where I could speak normally when alone, but in social situations I couldn’t get any words out — it was very severe....

Causes & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Severity & FluctuationHelplessness & Agency
commentr/StutterJan 11, 2026
9 points

Being cured of an adult stutter is like being cured of type 1 diabetes and I wish more people realized that....

Identity & DisabilityCauses & Variability
Medicalization / NeurodiversitySeverity & Fluctuation
commentr/StutterJan 11, 2026
6 points

No, if your stutter is neurological & an actual speech impediment there’s no cure. You’ll be wasting time & finding nothing but disappointment. But .. there is practice lots of practice to where it ...

Causes & VariabilityCoping & Advocacy
Neurological & BrainSeverity & FluctuationFluency Techniques
commentr/StutterJan 11, 2026
2 points

It was, but good luck, man! It finally made me go to speech therapy, so I am improving myself. You got this!...

Therapy & ProfessionalCauses & Variability
Seeking TherapySeverity & Fluctuation
commentr/StutterJan 11, 2026
2 points

Did 5 years in the Army, 1st 3 was in S-3 shop (I was the radio operator in the TOC) in a light infantry unit. Did 1 year at an NCO academy and last year in a Finance battalion. I stutter pretty bad...

Causes & VariabilitySchool & WorkSpeech & Stuttering
Severity & FluctuationEmployment & CareerPhysical Tension
commentr/StutterJan 11, 2026
4 points

I am 30 and just like you i been stuttering since i was like 8 or 10 and in the past two months it got so worse I begun to stutter with everyone with 0 social life but what I learned that it’s just l...

Causes & Variability
Cycles & RandomnessSeverity & Fluctuation
postr/StutterJan 11, 2026
7 points

In a huge stuttering “slump?”

In a huge stuttering “slump?” Hey everyone! I 27m have been stuttering for as long as I can remember. I won’t go through my entire story right now but I feel like recently I’ve been stuttering so much...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilitySpeech & Stuttering
Feared Words & NamesSeverity & FluctuationPhysical Tension
commentr/StutterJan 11, 2026
-1 points

I’m 48 years old. I stammered for 45 years and had a severe form. Now I don’t stammer. I was only able to break this chain at the age of 48....

Causes & VariabilityIdentity & Disability
Severity & FluctuationAcceptance & Pride
commentr/StutterJan 11, 2026
2 points

I've tried rearranging my sentences and replacing some of my words with synonyms, however I sometimes run out of synonyms or ways to rearrange my sentences, but it still works - kind of. Basically all...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & Variability
Avoidance & SubstitutionSeverity & Fluctuation
commentr/StutterJan 10, 2026
1 points

Personally for me it's not any harder to live a normal life than anyone else. It's not like we're dying or wheelchair bound or something that would actually hinder anything. I can't think of any job o...

Identity & DisabilitySchool & WorkCauses & Variability
Acceptance & PrideEmployment & CareerSeverity & Fluctuation
commentr/StutterJan 10, 2026
2 points

That's very unusual. Do you stutter when you talk out loud alone?...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & Variability
Experiential AssociationSeverity & Fluctuation
commentr/StutterJan 10, 2026
1 points

Mild stuttering may be a form of general stress release.  For whatever reason, most likely at a young age, a prolonged period of stress perhaps amplifies that mild stutter.  Some people show stress by...

Causes & Variability
Stress & Fight/FlightSeverity & FluctuationCycles & Randomness