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I don’t think anyone here is gonna tell you to not talk to her. This is her way of saying “go ahead say what you need to say I respect you just as much even if you stutter.” She’ll probably respect ...

1. Yeah it is fairly common. People have different kinds of secondary behavior they do when they stutter. I personally, invoultarily make facial contortions and slight head jerks. People develop thes...

yes. These movements are called accessory behaviors. They are fairly common, although head shaking and flailing arms is on the severe side. Regarding what you can do: (1)Be supportive. These are n...

I personally just tell them I have a condition and try to educate them on the subject. In most cases they get embarrassed or don't care about what I'm explaining as their whole "joke" backfired. I d...

This is crass but I have a tight group of friends who would never do that but there's 1 younger guy, a friend's boyfriend, about 20, who we got into it over money and he started getting on me about st...

Maybe your SO will want to speak for herself. I've never once had the worry 'what if I can't verbally defend my husband?' My husband can speak for himself, so why would I. Speaking up for yourself is ...

Somehow I've had this happen to me a lot. The exact same comment, every single time. "Did you forget your name?" "Oh you forgot your name!" "Haha forgot your own name?" and certain other variations of...

I'll be honest. I used to. I absolutely hated myself and how I couldn't talk right. People always told me to "just slow down!" without realizing that it happened even when I did talk slow. I would fre...

It works surprisingly well. They're like "oh shit" and just the savagery that your words produce automatically earn you their respect ...

Thank you! She was just being a bitch even before that. She was swearing in front of the young girl I was mentoring. I feel so happy when I defended myself....

On this hallowed day the library forever remembered the man who spoke up for himself where so many others were not able. A hero to all, he seized upon a teachable moment to strike down ignorance and r...

Stood up for myself in the library

Stood up for myself in the library I went to the public library and was making some pins with a young girl I am mentoring. The lady (who was very nice) asked us for our names, of course, I struggled w...

Good on you man. I just wanna say that as a guy, I would never just walk off on another person, especially some girl I just danced with and kissed, who's stuttering or puking in the middle of a conver...

If you want to be classy, wear a top hat and carry a cane. Otherwise, tell that person to F*** Off....

I've honestly never had a bystander butt into a conversation that I'm having with a friend or acquaintance and tell me to "spit it out" or anything like that. I feel like my gut reply would be like "...

Fair enough. I couldn’t help myself. Classy for me would be like, “I’m trying but there’s a bigot interrupting me.”...

As far as being classy, I wouldn't want to take that route as an instant reply, I was thinking something more along the lines of "I'll take as long as I want to speak, mind your own business"...

Unequivocally, yes. I had a personal rule when I was a teenager that my mother and other family members wouldn’t mention it when I stuttered....

I have a mild stutter and Im a federal agent. I have to talk to people, arrest them and be aggressive and authoritative. I chose to not let my stutter limit me. I hated talking on the phone and still ...

Tell people you have a stutter at the start of the talk, it is common practice for me in research talks and all my interviews now. Slightly settles the nerves and gets rid of the "fear of being found ...