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OP. I would answer your question this way. A part of our mind was “broken” and we had to do methods to help us during the broken brain phase until we were “healed”. Now that we are healed / cured fro...

I was isolated for the first 20 years of my life because of my severe stutter. When I was in grade school, I ate lunch in the janitors closet because nobody wanted to hang out with the kid who sputte...

I understand your viewpoint, I have faced that dilemma time and time again. I am 54, like you, have had those awkward pauses, had problems so bad that everyone just doesn't understand what it is real...

can relate to this v well. I always think that “they must be thinking im retarded or sumthing” as i act weird when i stutter...

I just do my own thing, I no longer care what people think, I'm living for me and my family, no one else...

Interesting perspective. Maybe they’re afraid of what a stutter could accomplish if they suddenly became fluent? Imagine spending your whole life developing skills and coping mechanisms just to work...

We all try to convince ourselves of that by repeatedly telling others here, but in real life most of us can't practice what we preach. Just facts 💯...

i really felt this, especially the part about replaying conversations and the fear of looking incompetent when you know your ideas are good. That internal fluency vs external reality is brutal. Since ...

You bring up a fascinating topic. One that is worthy of a conversation and not just a singular response. As I get older, I am more in line with this possibility. I think changing cognitive behaviors...

I hear you, and I can feel how exhausting this has been for you. Stuttering isn’t just repeating words — it’s panic, tension, anticipation, and replaying every conversation in your head. You’ve been d...

Thank you!!! I was pretty much hesitant wondering how I could do it because I freeze (obvious 'blocks' behaviour;).) but I spent a day practicing and decided to go ahead and do it because I have the s...

You will never make the overwhelming “I need to escape feeling” go away, the only way to do this is to live with it and to persevere even when it’s at its highest, running away teaches your brain that...

What’s the worst that can happen? You get laughed at. What’s the best that can happen? Your bravery opens up a life you thought you could never dream of. I’m a law grad with a noticeable stutter and I...

I think she in person is always one step harder than online. I at least somehow feel less exposed and that I can even do some weird trick like clenching my fists, even closing my eyes if there’s no ca...

Well you prepared a lot for it. Continue celebrating those wins and shift the mindset that you can speak just as fluent in person as you do online...

I mean there's self acceptance as well as tricks like this that all contribute to a more fluent speaker. This might not be sustainable but if it gives you a taste of what it's like to be fluent that's...

I've been in a handful of long term relationships (that itself is another conversation entirely) but for all of them I was actually the opposite. So, by the way you describe yourself in basically th...

Its interesting how I don't stutter when I talk to myself or read to myself or sometimes 99% don't stutter. But when I'm talking to others its totally different, sometimes I can't pronounce a word. Bu...

Speech therapy did help me, but not in the way you might think. I did learn several techniques to overcome blocks, but a big part of speech therapy was practicing stuttering and dealing with the emoti...

It has helped me stop caring about it. Now I freely stammer everywhere I go....