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I may have made myself sound a little more anti-social then I actually am. So my apologies! I am a social introvert. I like being around other people and doing group activities but it exhausts me to ...

i can align with most of that. not that our stutters are the same, but there's such a huge overlap in the experience of most stutterers, i think. \- i actually came to remember a school teacher of mi...

Stuttering and Conversation

Stuttering and Conversation I'm tired of this. If you knew me, you might say my stuttering isn't that bad. "I barely hear you stutter". Alright then, I guess I'm a covert stutterer. Life is great rig...

Don't hold yourself back

Don't hold yourself back I recently built up the courage to attend a career fair at my college. I had been debating whether or not I should go for a while. However, I realized that I have to do things...

I'll come at you from the son's perspective a bit. Granted I don't remember having a stutter till around 10, but my family more than friends, classmates or strangers were the ones that gave me the m...

Most of us had parents who either didn't want to address it or tried to "fix" it and I it doesn't really do much good. Many kids develop stuttering around the age of seven so its not uncommon. There's...

It's unfortunate...

It's unfortunate... It's unfortunate how much people read into someone's ability to speak well. We are literally measured -our entire beings and lives- by how well we speak. We're judged and devalued,...

Having a stutter sucks

Having a stutter sucks This is going to be a little long and is pretty much just a rant. I have had a stutter for as long as I can remember but I didn't really feel insecure about it until high scho...

Being open does help. Only a couple of my closer friends know that I stutter and it relieves a lot of pressure. I'm able to talk to them much more fluently and some even question if I do actually stut...

The group interview

The group interview Hi, lifelong stutterer here. I had a unique job interview today. Got there, and the woman checking us in said something about a "group interview." It didn't quite register at first...

I'm open enough if I'm talking to somebody if it makes sense. The other day I had an interview, so I told them at the start when I started having some trouble. If I'm at a store and ask where someth...

Being more open helps a lot! While being anxious (used here in the general, non-medical sense though I do also have GAD) doesn't cause stuttering it can exacerbate it for lots of people. Ironically on...

I'm covert, but I'm honestly way too hard on myself, focusing on every little "mistake" I make in conversation. I just elongate my sounds and pause and block a lot which I guess most people chalk up t...

Through speech therapy in elementary I learned how to control it under most circumstances. I still have issues sometimes, but I try to hide it as best as possible. Most of my friends and coworkers hav...

100% covert. No one really knows that I ACTUALLY stutter except for my family and a close friend. A few of them think that I stutter because I'm so nervous or because I'm antisocial, but none know tha...

I'm actually 35 ... I'm blogging over at helloistutter.com It's weird because I feel like there's a "positive feedback loop" with my covert stuttering. I'm doing well in the job, etc., so no motivati...

I'm covert outside my house. With my parents and my sisters, I stutter like a madman and I don't care. My gf knows that I stutter too but I hardly ever stutter with her....

I'm covert. My boyfriend was kind of surprised when I told him even when I am positive I've stuttered/blocked in front of him. Maybe he was being nice. Or maybe I'm too hard on myself....

Covert for such a long time, but I'm caring less and less. I don't acknowledge it during conversation so ... maybe some people just think I'm confused and stumbling over words? I guess it depends on w...

I'm practically open, in the sense that most people can tell after a conversation, but covert in the sense I don't ever breach the topic. I think this makes it worse. And after a while, you think, hel...