Search

I would mention your stutter early in the interview. Perhaps the first thing. I read in a Larry King book "how to have a conversation" that you should mention your thing at first so that people know w...

Struggling so much with blocks

Struggling so much with blocks I don’t know why my switch flips so fast but recently it has. My blocks are so bad and I can barely even say a sentence smoothly. I have a presentation next week ( a s...

H is easy for me, and even if a hard letter is right after it the easy start makes the hard letter much easier to say, like I get momentum of some kind. But introducing myself? Fuck no. Why couldn’t...

running it through your head millions of times, feeling the intense anxiety as they near your name, oh yeah it’s real...

Does anyone else have an "optimal speaking rhythm"?

Does anyone else have an "optimal speaking rhythm"? When I was younger, my mom used to tell me to try tapping my thigh if I started stuttering. It didn't make sense to me then, but after speech therap...

I think it's called exposition. It helps a lot in many situations because you became more confident. Someone says that stutter could born from an association between an event like a normal stuttering ...

Evening stuttering prevention thoughts over tea.

Evening stuttering prevention thoughts over tea. In psychology there is a theory used for people with fear of things such as heights, spiders ect.. I think its called the brute force theory where you ...

First of all, things will get better. Moods affect the stutter a lot. My stutter actually decreased a lot in my senior year of high school because I really started to accept my stutter as a part of wh...

Just booked my 1st speaking engagement

Just booked my 1st speaking engagement A few weeks ago I submitted 2 papers to be reviewed as part of an application to speak at a medium-sized tech conference in Budapest in March. Well, one of my pa...

I dont stutter when I 'forget' that i stutter.

I dont stutter when I 'forget' that i stutter. Like sometimes I would wake up and my mind would be occupied with thoughts of the long day awaiting me in college or whatever, and I would be speaking fl...

Today I had give a presentation without a paper to read or reference from. It was so horrible, I could barely put together 2 words. I even got stuck on words with my eyes closed...im sure people thoug...

They way you breath affects speech

They way you breath affects speech Hello everyone! Something interesting happened to me today that I would like to share with all of you and maybe you can implement this into your daily life. I am in ...

Yes I do believe that noticing my fluency rate was falling increased my stress. I have been trying to not think about my stutter as much and just go ahead and say what I want to say which has been hel...

My experience with stuttering

My experience with stuttering I am 20 years old and have had a small speech impediment since I was 4. I remember it being very bad when I was younger, but I saw a speech pathologist. One teacher would...

Definitely, or when I try to speak before thinking and it just doesn't come out right. Either that or when I'm tired. It's probably why I go quiet alot of the time as I'm usually anxious around other ...

My Story

My Story Guys I just joined this subreddit but I feel it is necessary to share my story directly taken from my college common app essay. Remember there is always hope:) The Bane of the Invisible Man ...

I often get the sense of being about to stutter. But it's not always accurate, sometimes I know a word is going to suck - but I don't have any other options, but I get to the word and just keep on go...

I’ve found that for me, I can feel the back of my throat tense up when I know there’s a troubling word ahead. Then when I get to that word, my speech mechanism refuses to cooperate with what I want it...

You can do it. Do not give up hope.

You can do it. Do not give up hope. Extremely long time lurker. First time poster. I just wanted to share that I’ve been a stutterer since I was a child (M 28). I started my IT career about 5 years ag...

I’m pretty fluent at this point in my life, but just the other day I woke up in a panic when I realized I was going to a meeting where I would have to introduce myself to a group of people. I usually ...