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The sub made me face the reality of how fortunate I was to have a support system growing up that was empathetic and understanding of my stutter. My grandfather stuttered and I have a cousin who stutt...

Is it stupid to break up with my bf because we were in an argument and he made fun of the fact that I stuttered while arguing ?

Is it stupid to break up with my bf because we were in an argument and he made fun of the fact that I stuttered while arguing ? ...

30 year old male here, I don’t usually post anything on reddit but I feel my words would help some of you… I don’t remember when I started to stutter but my childhood was traumatic. My old man was v...

I can totally relate. The worst is when other people, especially your own parents, think that if you just be “normal” or do things that “normal” people do, it’ll be fine. Well yeah, IF I DIDN’T have t...

I don’t think there is a replacement for being a warm and responsive parent. It’s not just inheritance that matters but the environment does too. Even with a genetic predisposition it doesn’t mean the...

I can’t remember the figures but me and my girlfriend did some research because I was didn’t want to pass my stutter down to my kids. Luckily for men, the chances of passing down the gene is extremely...

It's in my family: me, my uncle, a cousin, my grandpa's brother... It's in my genes but it's never passed directly to the children of the person that stutters, so my children will probably not have i...

You cant make someone not have children. That’s quite a slippery slope ethically. I have a stutter and i plan on being a mom someday. I refuse to let my stutter define what i do, yet alone if i have k...

I had a fairly ok time with peers in high school and university. My parents, however, treated me as an embarrassment to them. Fortunately I married a wonderful professional man who always proudly pre...

I can spell my name and hold basic short conversations just fine, but anything that requires considerable amount of communication; friends, family, job, interviews.... all that sucks...

Hello there. I wanted to ask something. How and why is it that stuttering didn’t really totally ruined your life? As 61, you probably have a lot of experience than me. So i wanted to ask, how did the ...

I had a similar experience for over a year in a position. I had a bit of stuttering too. However, later I realized they were mostly just very stupid... Really bad, I still have a kind of trauma even t...

That’s terrible and I’m really sorry to hear about your dad’s behaviour! If it helps you, write down on a piece of paper that its hurtful, unsupportive and that you are sad because of it. I think an...

Yeah, My mom and dad sometimes scolded me for not talking properly and also didn't take me to a speech therapist but I kind of practice my best to speak properly by myself but I still sometimes stutte...

What's some places online/irl to meet other stutterers?

What's some places online/irl to meet other stutterers? Lately I've been thinking about how nice it would be to meet other stutterers in my area and be around people who get what it's like to be us. ...

That’s awesome! My fiancée and I are hoping to get to a point where I can start staying home once we have kids, but in this economy it’s been so hard. He’s not worried like I am about finding work. He...

Are you in South America? I'm in Utah. This news is promising. My case is fairly mild now. I felt it did hinder me professionally but I fortunately married well and for my generation, being a homemake...

Not, just a stutterer who loves to be up to date with the latests stuttering researches ....

My family never understood or accepted my stutter either, there are so many days where I didnt wish to speak fluently but I wished to have atleast one person to have my back. Don't be too hard on you...

Yeah, it's tough for you. Your mom doesn't have the first clue what it's like to deal with something like a stutter every day of your life. You've endured things that would break her. She's supposed t...