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Huh, well as long as it helps you that’s good. I could never take something for my speech to many side effects & I’d feel defeated....

My friend who stutters told me I stutter and now i’m confused

My friend who stutters told me I stutter and now i’m confused He stretches the letter like b ba ba ball. This does not happen to me. So when he said I stutter it confused me. This has never come up i...

I was reading in third grade and got hung up. The teacher said, 'Damn it, stop stuttering. ' Few kids actually told their parents. My mother lit up that principal's office like no one's business!...

That's a horrible experience. I also have a specific memorable horrible memory of a teacher who did not treat me kindly. I vowed to myself that I would never treat someone else like that for something...

Looking back I appreciate teachers like that. They really pushed me out of my comfort zone and forced me to challenge myself. I still stutter but I’m not ashamed of it anymore...

It seems we have all had one teacher that was a POS. Mine was the Latin teacher at capital high school who made it a special point to make me repeat words my “hard sounds” as a big joke to the rest of...

Got rejected in the HR screening round

Got rejected in the HR screening round A friend referred me to his company, and I received a call from HR. I do stutter, but I still answered all the questions they asked. Later, my friend told me th...

It’s about unrooting the belief that - fundamentally because we have a stutter we deserve to be heard or listened to less than someone fluent. This belief is drilled into us any time we are ridiculed,...

Hating yourself means playing on the stuttering team against yourself....

What kind of mentality should I have?

What kind of mentality should I have? Every time I stutter, I hate myself. I feel super tired after like I need a lie down and need to cry and I feel tired of life. I’ve heard people say ‘the more you...

I’ve been there and I know exactly what you mean and how you’re feeling. There are definitely jobs out there that won’t require presentations. Otherwise, are you close with anyone you’re presenting to...

I have read my life story. I gave up started taking … to calm voices in my head. I have 3 friends nobody knows about my struggle. I’m so ashamed about my own self I can’t look at the mirror anymore I...

I do have this realisation but idk still my dumbahh brain makes me feel weird if I do stutter infront of anyone especially if I know I’m with some “friend” who’s gonna make fun of it (reason I recentl...

The problem is no one treats stuttering the same as other disabilities . When I went to school the kids that were disabled were defended by other kids if they were bullied. The same super "nice" kid...

There is nothing wrong with wanting to be the center of attention. It's just not my personality. I've been at my job for 15 years and I have been in leadership positions before, spoken in large meetin...

For the years I'm trying not to be in the center of any attention but seems like I can't control myself. I like learning, responsibilities, leadership but at the end I fail and get myself shamed and r...

My stutter only came up once while I was dating. The guy said I should have warned him because it was off-putting. To my surprise, that guy also ended being a tremendous jerk. Did kill my confidence f...

I work in a place where psychiatrists work and I just don't wanna them know that this is my flaw or I have this condition. I tried so many times to tell them but I couldn't....

I kinda feel you on that. It rarely ever bothers me in public but I’m at a convention and yesterday I went up to a girl to ask for a picture cause I loved her cosplay. Of course it had to happen then ...

Great post u/popquizkid_ ! identify with many of the scenarios you listed. I'd like add a few of my own. The telephone is a HUGE hurdle for me. I get ridiculously anxious when I have to call someone ...