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I’m just sick of people with minimal stutterers telling those severe or near mute how to live their lives. We all stutter but we may experience more mental distress due to the severity of our situatio...

I feel people often forget there is a spectrum in stuttering as well. You have people with really mild stutters who are giving motivational speeches about they 'overcame' their stutters and than on th...

You have to keep in mind stuttering is a spectrum. The playing field is completely different between mild and severe stutters. ...

Does not talking make stuttering worse

Does not talking make stuttering worse I’ve always had a bit of a stutter but I feel like in high school it wasn’t as bad because I talked on a more regular basis compared to in adulthood. I work an o...

I maintain pretty good at work and around people most of the time and I can say I never got to the point where I just accepted it and I do still vet embarrassed by it so he is not alone. ...

Your kid sounds like me. I'll have weeks where you'd never know, and then weeks where I struggle to get a word out. You learn to adapt. It's great that you seem to really care. Good job....

I had a worse stutter as a teen and now at 28 I think I’ve had way more life experiences so I’m more comfortable in a lot of situation, which has helped my stutter become mild. Most people don’t know ...

Yeah definitely feels like the more I talk the worse my speech gets. Like sometimes I start conversations off strong but like 20-30 minutes in I am almost incomprehensible. ...

48 Here. Yes. When I was a child I could not get through a single sentence without stuttering. I still stutter but it is nowhere near what it was. I would say I am 70-85 percent fluent. ...

totally normal unfortunately - stress, sleep, even seasonal stuff can trigger worse periods. for managing it you've got a few paths: local SLPs if insurance covers it well, the NSA has free support gr...

Does anyone have interesting speech therapy stories?

Does anyone have interesting speech therapy stories? I'll start. Went to speech therapy from elementary school through middle school. Twice a week for 8 years and I feel like I don't have a whole lot ...

I used to have those issues, especially when I was overcoming my stutter. But I would practice my speech very hard during those times and eventually those went away. But I still feel that heavy presen...

I’m older now but my stutter has gotten a bit worse due to a few life experiences but I just have to manage ...

Anyone else have "flare-ups"?

Anyone else have "flare-ups"? So I realized that my stutter has fluctuations, oddly: For a few months, it'll be what I like to call my "normal" stutter, but then it'll worsen for the next couple of mo...

Yes I did got scored 0 on everything. Even though for the best part of the day I can't communicate with people. ...

I suspect that in order for someone to be successful at claiming PIP their stammer would have to be severe and a significant barrier to their life...

My stutter has different phases on different days. 2 weeks ago I was like 80% fluent.I was even able to somewhat have a convos with a cashier. But now I couldn't even talk to my dad without messing up...

no therapy helps

no therapy helps i’ve been stuttering since first grade, and now i’m a senior in high school going to graduate and after all the years of school speech therapy and other things, i have come to the con...

Honestly I don't even need a cure to stuttering, just something in the form of treatment/medication to reduce stuttering. My stuttering seems to have gotten much worse since I have gotten older and so...

Never happened to me either. When I’m pissed off or really passionate I’m the most fluent motherfucker on the face of the earth. So a lot of things come out that bypass my brain/mouth filter. It’s whe...