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My therapist used to say "Stuttering is what stutterers do when they try not to stutter.", and I believe that. When I am alone, I can talk better than anyone. When I am around someone, talking to so...

(I didn't mean to write a whole tutorial but it just happened somehow) This is good while rewiring your brain to speak fluently.  When you're in this phase you need to avoid "bad incidents" as muc...

Dating and stuttering

Dating and stuttering Stuttering has been a part of my life since I was 15 or 16y/o, now I am 21 and I have accepted that it's gonna be with forever and I am trying to be more open about it but it fee...

One interesting thing I learned from doing Voice Acting while having a stutter.

One interesting thing I learned from doing Voice Acting while having a stutter. When I record a line for voice over, I rarely rarely get a line that I can say without stuttering right off the bat. Som...

For one moment I forgot that I stutter, and it feels great

For one moment I forgot that I stutter, and it feels great So my biology teacher handed us a paper with our names and asked us to write our other major (in high schools in my country you need to choos...

Nope. People can employ different coping strategies that may or may not work for them in certain situations. Some coping strategies work for awhile and then fail. Some coping strategies work for some ...

Once I let everyone know I stutter.. my speaking got easier...and better.. I was more relaxed having conversations...I heard that song " I gotta be me" and took inspiration.. ...the pretending tryin...

Yeah I totally empathize- and passing as fluent can be exhausting. It’s our invisible cross to bear so kudos to us all!...

I can tell this helps. A few months ago, I used to play video games with this girl using voice chat (and in English, which isn’t my first language). Even though I hide my stutter pretty well, that ex...

This is why many stutterers become actors. When you don’t have to be you then the new person who is not you does not stutter. When you become you again then once again you stutter...

I'm already going to the left side, stuttering is just 1% of who you are it shouldn't affect the other 99%...

This guy, in the essence, teaches us to hide our stuttering. Pause for a moment to think, what kind of an effect hiding something that's a part of you has on your mental health and wellbeing. With st...

They’re against it because stuttering is their whole life and fixing their stutter will take away their identity. Personally I’ve done the program and stopped stuttering myself. I’m happy it helped y...

What worked for me over time was more of a mental shift, a more macro outlook than micro one. Rather than focus on the particular area, I would let it pass, try not to think about it and as that init...

1) you mentioned that you feel selfish talking about yourself. dont. please be you. the last thing he needs is for you to treat him differently because he stutters. just talk about yourself, let him t...

I’m mostly an ex-stutterer. Still a few blocks from time to time but nothing major. I got here through 30 years of forcing myself to speak in public. The more I did it, the less I felt defined by my s...

You can learn to move away from bitterness and soul destroying cynicism by examining how people with serious facial disfigurements adapt: "Despite the myriad challenges, many individuals with facial ...

The problem isn’t just the stutter itself. It’s the side effects that come with it. Like you said, if it was *just* the stuttering, then accepting it would be the best option. Idc if it’s considered a...

There is no cure. There are ways to adapt to stuttering so that you feel you stutter less and there are also tools that may or may not help you reduce how much you stutter, but there is no cure. Anyon...

I’ve learned that even when we think we’re hiding it or it isn’t obvious, people still notice. They likely already know and if they haven’t ran away yet, it’s probably not a dealbreaker....