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Other people's opinions about you shouldn't be the cause of your death. The fact that they're laughing about your stutter shows that they're not the kind of people you want to be around. I suffer fr...

I would suggest speaking to a regular therapist. Not a speech therapist. I found diving into the inner emotions, feelings and unearthing some of my anxieties with a professional was more helpful than ...

I don’t take medication for my actual stutter. I take medication for my anxiety, which in turn helps me feel more confident in social situations and interactions. It doesn’t cure stuttering but alle...

One of the best ways to manage a fear of something you want to do, is to do the thing afraid. Relationships are a series of moments of uncertainty, and being vulnerable in those moments of uncertaint...

Not everybody believes in taking medications for their anxiety. Each to their own. If you have severe social anxiety because of your stutter, then why not give it a try in order to alleviate the anx...

No. I hate it when people dismiss the experiences of what stuttering really is and try to make it seem like this easy thing to deal with when it’s not. I also hate when people try to make it seem lik...

What you're saying makes complete sense, and your self-awareness is impressive. When stakes feel low (strangers, casual friends), the 'not caring' strategy works because your nervous system is calm. B...

Afraid to converse with my girlfriend sometimes

Afraid to converse with my girlfriend sometimes For some background, I’ve been stuttering for most of my life, and I’ve faced bullying and insults because of it. For a long time, I eventually learned ...

Or the people that seem to be downvoting them are people that are genuinely annoyed with your harmful beliefs you have been spreading around. The victim blaming, toxic positivity, there is a differenc...

Why do you keep twisting people’s words around just so you can be right and make people feel bad about themselves? Because all I said was how your posts are harming the community. Never have I said I...

This happens to me constantly 😭 Literally when I’m talking about something important or just something positive in general, somehow it’s always getting changed to my stutter…. “You sounded so fluen...

Stuttered In my Presentation

Stuttered In my Presentation I have a stutter on my name i feel like my stutter mostly comes from anxiety somwtimes I speak great other days if im not bold or think too much I stutter it sucks my tea...

For me its not pauses, its changing my pace.  What ever way feels like I will get stuck, I try to do the opposite, change my pace and sometimes it feels like a substitute even though its the same thin...

I did different things but my sessions with Pysch helps alot and after that I also went to Speech Therapist. Pysch told me why you stammer and what will be your cause for this, Psych told me relation ...

I don't have a mild-stutter. My whole childhood was spent in speech therapy, one of whom said I was essentially a lost cause and actually suggested I learn sign language. Every single horror story of...

I think we agree more than we disagree. It's just that there are too many variables mentioned in this particular case and too much of a tendency for people to cry 'poor me' when it may not be justifie...

There’s a difference to getting rejected because of negative traits and personalities, and getting rejected because of a disability you have no control over. It’s like saying that white women die of ...

The fact that I stutter myself changes the nuance here. My stutter may actually be worse than yours, yet I consciously make an effort to speak slowly. You may have taken my comment the wrong way — but...

Again, people who are 100% fluent and excellent candidates get ghosted by recruiters all the time. They are constantly talking to candidates and they could find better candidates than you. The employe...

It's good that you are seeing hypersensitivity. This is something we can address ourselves. Yes, I'd imagine most if not all stutterers are very sensitive about public shame and embarrassment from the...