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commentr/StutterDec 12, 2025
1 points

Running into a café to order a cup of coffee without anticipating the difficult sounds 🙃...

Anticipation & AvoidanceSocial & Relationships
Avoidance & SubstitutionQuality of Life
postr/StutterDec 12, 2025
13 points

Stammer hate

Stammer hate My stammer is blocking me I can't say anything at all I'm basically mute. I just did a English speech and I was about to make a joke putting up an blank white paper on the whiteboard and ...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Feared Words & NamesAvoidance & SubstitutionStress & Fight/Flight+3 more
commentr/StutterDec 11, 2025
2 points

Nothing different. Losing my stutter wouldn’t immediately lose a life’s worth of avoidant behavior and self-doubt. The iceberg is real. Over time, however, I could probably learn to adapt to a more f...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionHelplessness & AgencyAuthenticity vs. Masking
commentr/StutterDec 11, 2025
3 points

Hey that’s me! Lol. People will always say whatever over a keyboard. I bet 99% of them wouldn’t say that to my face....

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionHelplessness & AgencyAuthenticity vs. Masking+1 more
commentr/StutterDec 11, 2025
6 points

yes I think about this all the time, especially when in class and no one ever raises their hand to answer a question. I would always have my hand up if i didn’t stutter...

Anticipation & AvoidanceSchool & Work
Avoidance & SubstitutionSchool & Academic Life
commentr/StutterDec 11, 2025
2 points

using these various speech techniques. In the end of the day its not real fluency it just replaces one problem with another. Like having to constantly monitor how I speak and talk in a rather slow, mo...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCoping & Advocacy
Avoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & MonitoringFluency Techniques
commentr/StutterDec 11, 2025
1 points

I’ve lost jobs to my stutter, it’s cost me careers and ruined many things. I did say it wasn’t funny, but it did make me chuckle at the creativity of it. The writer in me made me laugh. Blame that...

Anticipation & AvoidanceSchool & WorkCommunity & Support
Avoidance & SubstitutionEmployment & CareerHumor & Community Tone
commentr/StutterDec 11, 2025
1 points

Might not help but I've learned to sandwich "hard" words to the middle of a sentence so the airflow is already there. Instead of saying "name" I say some variation of "oh yeah hi guys my name is\_\_\_...

Coping & AdvocacyAnticipation & Avoidance
Fluency TechniquesAvoidance & Substitution
commentr/StutterDec 11, 2025
8 points

Go to a bakery and order a specific bread without feeling anxious and without stuttering....

Anticipation & AvoidanceSocial & Relationships
Avoidance & SubstitutionQuality of Life
commentr/StutterDec 11, 2025
12 points

Presentations and public speaking at work. It’s ludicrous that most people fear public speaking when they can literally speak fluently no matter how nervous they are, or how they feel. They can just r...

Anticipation & AvoidanceSchool & Work
Avoidance & SubstitutionEmployment & CareerPublic Speaking
commentr/StutterDec 11, 2025
4 points

This is it. I’d be the same person. But I would (internally) savor every second of it. The only thing that may change is I’d probably handle some things that my wife handles now. She takes care of a...

Anticipation & AvoidanceIdentity & DisabilitySchool & Work
Avoidance & SubstitutionAuthenticity vs. MaskingEmployment & Career
postr/StutterDec 11, 2025
7 points

Am I a “true” stutterer?

Am I a “true” stutterer? I’ve seen people here say “people who cure their stutters aren’t true stutters with a real physiological condition” I personally don’t stutter when I’m talking to myself, and...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Avoidance & SubstitutionStress & Fight/FlightAnxiety & Social Judgment+1 more
commentr/StutterDec 11, 2025
26 points

I don't think much would change tbh. I do most of the stuff I want to do already.  I think I would just savour the lack of struggle in every day conversations. Might go through a drive through witho...

Anticipation & AvoidanceSocial & Relationships
Avoidance & SubstitutionQuality of Life
postr/StutterDec 11, 2025
1 points

What I’ve Observed About My Stutter and My Blocks

What I’ve Observed About My Stutter and My Blocks Hi everyone, I’m a mild stutterer and I wanted to share something I’ve recently figured out about my speech. # My stutter has two parts: * **Trippin...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityCoping & Advocacy
Avoidance & SubstitutionSituational VariabilityFluency Techniques+2 more
commentr/StutterDec 10, 2025
4 points

Thanks for your words, I needed to be reminded of that. Normally I don't pay too much attention to my stutter : I still try to not show it too much on a first impression but I often just let my stutte...

Identity & DisabilityAnticipation & AvoidanceCoping & Advocacy
Authenticity vs. MaskingAvoidance & SubstitutionFluency Techniques
commentr/StutterDec 10, 2025
2 points

Once I started puberty around grade 8, something flipped in me and I became mega self conscious about my stutter. I definitely drifted down the popularity ranks and avoided people and class more. Star...

Emotional ExperienceSchool & WorkAnticipation & Avoidance
Anxiety & Social JudgmentSchool & Academic LifeHiding & Concealment+1 more
commentr/StutterDec 10, 2025
1 points

She was obnoxious, but at least she showed who she really is rather quickly. Saved you from wasting time on her!...

Anticipation & Avoidance
Avoidance & Substitution
postr/StutterDec 10, 2025
17 points

(rent) I HATE WHEN PEOPLE TRY TO DICTATE MY SPEECH I HATE IT SO MUCH

(rent) I HATE WHEN PEOPLE TRY TO DICTATE MY SPEECH I HATE IT SO MUCH Like I know talk with a stutterer can also be difficult for the listener, cause the words became sometimes hard to understand, but ...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCoping & AdvocacyEmotional Experience
Avoidance & SubstitutionSelf-Advocacy & BoundariesAnxiety & Social Judgment+1 more
commentr/StutterDec 10, 2025
2 points

That's true. I also do this when none of my other methods work. It's annoying and when my co workers ask me ask me to sing what I want to say...

Causes & VariabilityAnticipation & Avoidance
Strategic Swearing/CursingAvoidance & Substitution
postr/StutterDec 10, 2025
11 points

Stuttering venting

Stuttering venting I’ve been stuttering all my whole life due to a possible trauma as kid, bad toxic family environnement. I was getting mocked at school and to this day by my brother. As a result i h...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Avoidance & SubstitutionTrauma & PsychologicalShame & Embarrassment+3 more