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There comes a time in everyone’s life where they have to stop blaming their parents and take responsibility for their own life. Stuttering sucks. I have been doing it my whole life. But I no longer bl...

Moving Icebergs, Questioning Acceptance, and other musings

Moving Icebergs, Questioning Acceptance, and other musings Just a little background... I have been involved in the stuttering community for nearly 20 years. Stuttering for over double that. I have at...

Just a guess -- he's probably try to suss out whether you are there for positive or negative reasons. As in, are you looking to make the best of the hand we've been dealt, or are you looking to join a...

Totally understandable but we can’t just give up. We have one life , cant waste it because of the fear that ppl will make fun of us...

I took Chase Gillis' program a few years ago. He had his clients do "comfort zone challenges" - one of the challenges he assigned to us was to approach a certain number of strangers and tell them, "He...

Young Sir. No one has ideal parents they all do what they think is best nobody is perfect. Your relationship with your folks should be treated as a separate matter from your stutter. In the end it's ...

Well no it isn’t, you can be confident in talking and expressing yourself with a stutter...

Bro i have the same condition and ykw I have tried speech therapist two times, one in my childhood and one recently but it's still the same and now it's been killing me from inside day by day. Idk wha...

For me working on my self confidence has definitely improved my stutter but I doubt I'm in the majority on that ...

that’s so awesome!! i recently started telling my teachers but i haven’t had the confidence yet to be upfront about it with everyone. great job! 😊...

redefining stuttering by john harrison

redefining stuttering by john harrison hi guys! i’ve been in this sub for awhile and i’ve seen the book “redefining stuttering” by john harrison recommended several times. for a long time i kinda roll...

I'm a leader in a public speaking club , and I stutter, I lead meetings and I stutter, I hope u have the same co co confidence speaking in public as many other stutterers like me, Your statement is ...

I don't follow this sub too close because of the opposite of what you're describing, like posts about giving up and that everyone here is doomed. In my experience the examples you gave are generall...

The real issue is confidence is a requirement when defeating your stutter. You have to be stubborn and you have to be confident in order to make progress. I personally wouldn’t define any positivity r...

My thoughts exactly. I am speaking pretty good most of the time now, and although have days where I block or repeat syllables, I am mostly okay now. I find it incredibly insulting that OP is diminish...

Oh I stutter, but I stutter proudly. I don't whine about it. I'm totally at peace with my stutter and don't allow it to hold me back. Self confidence gives you the power to react differently to your ...

Yep. If anything I sometimes view it as an attribute. Being social and confident with a speech impediment just shows more character. Especially if you're in good shape and have things going on in your...

Not everyone is going to approach their stutter the same way. Some choose to overly embrace it, while others might do whatever they can to hide it If toxic positivity is the best way that a person ca...

I mostly feel sad for them. They remined me so much of my family member that went through religious psychosis after her husband died in a car crash. She wasn't even religious before that. She start...

I'm sorry you feel that way. Does it upset you that others feel their stutter has helped them become a better person? ...