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That’s great, happy for you! I keep telling myself what you say but it feels hard to shake the insecurity off. Friends keep telling me it’s a flaw like any other and not a dealbreaker but I’m still ...

Feel like stuttering prevents me from finding a relationship and it’s starting to get to me

Feel like stuttering prevents me from finding a relationship and it’s starting to get to me Finally decided to post in here to get some insight from people who might understand. For the past few yea...

You just learn to accept that it’s just part of what makes you, “you.” I don’t get anxiety from knowing I’m about to stutter (or that I will eventually stutter) anymore. The feeling that never really...

accidentally might've offended my speech therapist

accidentally might've offended my speech therapist (21f) hey all! i just want to vent about something that happened to me recently because i really have nobody else to talk to about it because non-stu...

Shoot. Just from a quick Google search, it appears that a foreign speech therapist would only be able to offer services if they were credentialed in Bulgaria, which is unlikely. I could be wrong, but ...

If I try to read a paragraph aloud in front of people, I’d stutter. But if someone read it aloud along with me? Fluent....

How to not let stutter get in way of career?

How to not let stutter get in way of career? I have what can be called a severe stutter, as there are occasions when I pretty much block on every word. On average, I can block or stutter every couple ...

This is exactly what you should be doing, but, when you do stutter, don’t over analyse, don’t try to correct it, just keep going. The feeling of “this needs to be fixed” is what keeps the fear loop al...

I'm able to speak with the speechless because I too am often speechless.

I'm able to speak with the speechless because I too am often speechless. Greetings, I am a respiratory therapist and a stutterer as well. My fluency ranges from passing for fluent, to pretty severe bl...

one thing i learned as a stutterer is that actions speak louder than words...

My learning so far regarding stuttering

My learning so far regarding stuttering I am M27 and got stuttering since childhood, after lot of what I ve seen and lived, I have come to these conclusions 1 - You need to accept the fact that you ...

What you’re saying makes sense. Not liking how your voice sounds could be attributing to your stutter-like disfluencies, and this could be why you’re experiencing blocks at this age now, since feeling...

Thanks so much for your words; honestly, they really cleared things up for me. But I've got a question that might be the root of my blocks. I never had a block when I was little, but after 14, I start...

this is such an important observation and it's backed by neuroscience too. When we're under pressure, the brain shifts resources toward threat detection and away from the speech planning areas, which ...

Amazing day!

Amazing day! I just did my first session with a speech therapist. It was really the best! And I 100% will recommend to every single one. Just listening to general people or getting tips from reddit or...

How did the presentation go? I see disclosing as demonstrating that I am comfortable with my condition. They are going to see me stutter anyway, at least they know what is going on....

A Different Perspective

A Different Perspective Hello everyone, Today, in a strange way, I realized that I started liking my stutter and accepting it. I don’t really know how it happened. It’s kind of funny because I used t...

Yeahh it happens to me to. But it's soo tiring to do it, beacuse you have to make sure that you stick to that personality. I used to do it when i met new people, but they ended up realising that somet...

Yeahh, if i change my personality and my voice at the same time. I was so desesperate that I started to change myself just because it made me not to stutter. But i felt sooo silly, because it was not ...

If we’re talking about muscle memory, I do think there’s something to it. At one point in my life, I took on jobs where I had to work with people constantly. Almost every time someone arrived, I wou...