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I have issues ordering food, like many other people do. When I was on campus and visiting particular spots often enough, people would learn what I wanted and understood that the words wouldn't always ...

Learn to live with it instead. We all do. We can wish all we want, and hope that technology catches up and finds a cure, maybe the brain chip can do something but it won't happen anytime soon and poss...

thank you. I currently have 2 speech therapists. My 2nd one I just recently got during my trip to the Dominican Republic last week, and she’s been helping a lot with the physical aspects of speaking. ...

When I was younger , like in high school for example I would be self conscious about reading in class or being called on  I made myself do it still and it helped. When I worked a Kmart in HS I would h...

Hi there! He still has a stutter but the secondary behaviors that got bad for a while have gone away. He had also started covering his mouth, getting aggressive, refusing to talk, etc. We made a lot o...

Stuttering, even during practice interviews

Stuttering, even during practice interviews I (25F) was born with a stutter and I have been dealing with this challenge for all my life. I’ve gotten speech therapy since I was a child and I still use ...

Explain to them how communication breaks down when someone stutters. Eye contact is lost. The person hearing has an emotional reaction – pity, mocking, empathy, whatever. They feel something. They kno...

maybe. but the way I see it is, it also causes more speaking and that's what matters in the end. voluntary stutter is like a cane for someone who can't walk fast. cane enables two things: making thei...

Quit working because of stuttering

Quit working because of stuttering Hey so i think i dont have a big stutter but i sometimes stutter on the letter a or m or o so there are certain words i cant say or numbers so im afraid to stutter i...

Until you know what it’s like to have to have the experience of making a phone call & people are rude to you or they think you’re playing on the phone & keep hanging up or you get cussed at, you will ...

I feel the exact same way, for some reason my stutter is worse when talking on the phone, I can't help it, ill be on the line just completely stuck can't get 1 word out and then just say im sorry and ...

I was incredibly anxious when I was in my late teens. I dropped out of school because of fear of stuttering and completely withdrew. I didn't understand how I could do anything or find a way forward. ...

I agree that everyone has problems and if you have no means of coping it is just as bad as anything someone else can have from your perspective. The difference arises in how other people can influenc...

I’ve been stuttering since I could talk I’m 28 now. People say it gets better or it goes away. But it hasn’t I just learned how to accept it. Life is significantly harder, harder to get a job, harder...

It’s exhausting, physically and mentally. That’s something people don’t get. I’d rather be digging a ditch somewhere than have to go through that again, as I have to at least once a month. Thank god f...

Harder for me personally. Job seeking etc. talking on the phone. Had to make around 8 calls yesterday just to get my prescription called in before people finally understood me...

Yeah some people have temporary splinters, their legs fall asleep sometimes, and others have allergies to water. Bro, take your logic and gtfo. My dad has always said that to minimize what I go thro...

Well as much as I wanna be positive, I feel the worst I have ever felt, and the most helpless than ever. It doesn't help chronically always having a bank account in the negatives and being forced out...

Man, my girlfriends always acted similar when I brought up my stuttering and how it was making me feel. They never helped and told simply told me "no one cares about it" Clearly that's a lie and isnt...

Truth be told, as a 31 year old I wish I could go back to being 18. I always pushed myself into situations and careers where I was forced to publically speak. I did it as a way to empower myself and t...