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I'm a 24 year old woman who stutters (severe-moderate) and I'm going to have to agree with what another poster stated -- I don't think stuttering is the (major) problem here. While I do think speec...

I'm on page 18. I will give the rest of the book a read, but this is something I touched upon in December. Speech is automatic and that when we start thinking about it its when we block. I record v...

That sounds a lot like how my impediment functions. My finely tuned strategies for speaking smoothly will purr along nicely, sometimes for weeks or months without me having to consciously think about ...

its all in your head

its all in your head this stutter shit is all mental real talk, for me anyway. If i dont think about it I'm golden. I just cant figure out how to get it out of my head. Everytime i do notice im fluent...

Digital versus IRL

Digital versus IRL Frequent lurker, first time poster. I'm 32 and like many of the folks here, have been stuttering for as long as I can remember. About a year ago I started sim racing on /r/iRacing ...

Although I am basically a native English speaker, the stutter and stumbles makes me sound like some new foreigner. Wrong impression to strangers. I sometimes talk in my broken second language just t...

Well, sure it's easy to quote mine and find things you disagree with. But even still, I think you missed the point of that statement. It's part of a rhetorical question that poses the question, "does...

Reconditioning your entire method of speech is going to take a lot more than a few months. Don't be discouraged! You're developing some good habits. And yeah the, "You know"s and "Like"s, those are ...

Deliberately stuttering

Deliberately stuttering Has anyone just said F it and spoke freely so that they did deliberately stuttered? I tried this today and.....I spoke fluently. On the phone and at the bank. I stumbled wit...

Im having a small laugh mostly based on the fact that "she is gonna be majorly embarrassed once she figure out i stutter" kind of thing. Not trying to hide anything...

no need to laugh. i think many stutterers have a tendency to compound their problem with a bunch of escape/explanation/excuse maneuvers. that's not a good habit to have, because it can quickly become ...

yes, this is about you - for the most part. it's not about you when you start generalizing outside of your own case. you're making a list about yourself, but for it to amount to something more solid,...

>When it comes talking to people I believe it's all a mental game. Even though I consciously may think x person is not intimidating what so ever... my unconscious mind may think otherwise. It's rea...

I think it's about time we, stutterers, stop being ashamed for something that isn't our fault....

Absolutely. To me it was about gaining confidence and overcoming my shyness through desensitization therapy. Though I did scripted acting first and learned that way. I have done some improv and gotten...

This was hugely reassuring to read. I know being open about my stutter is something I should do, but it's just hard to really get to the point where I'm confortable saying i have one openly. ...

I've worked with a few doctors now, at various points in their careers (med student, resident, fellow, attending) and in various specialties. A "pattern" I've noticed is that most physicians-in-train...

i wouldn't use the term "subconscious", but yeah, i get what you're saying. i think it's different though, now that i think about it... i think it's about the wide sense of "empathy" - which takes us ...

I feel trapped in my own body

I feel trapped in my own body I've dealt with a stammer for as long as I can remember and I've rarely felt of it like this before, however I moved to university a month or so ago. Over text speech, I...

Great points below! I just want to offer my two cents as someone who stutters too: First of all, I don't think there's anything "unprofessional" or "wrong" with simply stuttering. It doesn't make us ...