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I feel the true restriction of stuttering (for myself at least)...is the fact I just can't fully express myself. I might avoid words or entire sentences if I feel I will stutter and that just leads to...

1. Yes i feel as if every stutter knows when they are stuttering and we each have our own ways of going through it. me personally, i can feel a stutter coming like 5 words before it comes and even bef...

The boring answer is... it depends and often varies from person to person, but here's mine 1. Oh yes. Very much so. We're fully aware. Many (if not all) already know when we start a sentence which wo...

Like I acknowledge and understand that they all have struggles or things that they can't do or just won't be good at. But the main thing that humans do is communicate and I'm just unable to do it eff...

I finally met a stutterer

I finally met a stutterer I have a hobby of building and selling 2nd hand computers, and I've had a stutter my entire life. One day a very friendly lady probably in her early 40s come to my front doo...

I’m definitely just spectating, sometimes I feel like I’m a viewer watching the movie of other people’s lives and in my dreams it’s the same. I cannot escape my stutter as I stutter in my dreams too. ...

I have often wanted to do what you are describing – tell people ahead of time that I have a speech impediment. See, even there I said “speech impediment,” instead of “stutter.” There is something abou...

I think at this time , I am just going to not speak . It’s too hard and discouraging. I’ m too old for therapy at this point, too ,...

Self Disclosure Statement

Self Disclosure Statement Hello all! Have those of you who worked with speech therapists, ever written a self-disclosure statement? The idea is to have something to recite when beginning a more compl...

Solidarity

Solidarity I just wanted to introduce myself, as I’ve been a longtime lurker and a lifelong stutterer. I’m currently in my early thirties and working in Fintech as a software engineer. On the outsid...

Yeepp, I think our speech and emotions are related, whenever I feel deep an meaningful emotions, my speech also becomes beautiful, so I try to stay connected to mysf, to feel love and meaning, not anx...

For me, I discovered that my blocks were a panic-type response because I was refusing to let myself stutter "authentically." When I decided to allow myself to stutter freely, all the blocking stoppe...

I liked the values of this program, CARE. It is good to have such values in life when you stutter. However what I'm talking about is not about accepting your stuttering intellectualy (I stutter and f...

I would often try to time calls I know would last a little longer to when I was driving (connected to the cars Bluetooth of course). I noticed I rarely stutter during phone conversations when I am dri...

I read out loud alone and hit a stutter, it surprised me but I could continue on with ease, barely a second thought, it was nothing but a curiosity.  There was no pressure, etc.  ...

It’s funny because I lowkey love to talk over text or talk in voice chat with people I’m comfortable with...

Hi, in short i believe my stuttering is 100% caused by not being present. Saying the same thing in another way, it happens when i am lost in my limiting thoughts (about a word i will have difficulty w...

For me the worst thing about stuttering was the fear of speaking to people. I was ashamed. Over the years I did all the things to mask it and I became an expert it hiding it. My wife just asked me w...

Accountability partner wanted -- working through ARTS (Avoidance Reduction Therapy for Stuttering)

Accountability partner wanted -- working through ARTS (Avoidance Reduction Therapy for Stuttering) A little about me -- I'm 37, around 8% disfluency, and wanting to fully confront my speech head-on. I...

I think it is important for us to not think that we Stutter.

I think it is important for us to not think that we Stutter. If there was a machine that can remove thaught that we Stutter and stop anticipating that we gonna face block we will not stutter at all. ...