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Well we dont even know what really causes stuttering or exactly what the problem is. I may be mistaken but I dont think we know what specific pathways are the issue or w/e it is. But the good news is ...

The truly happy and successful people in this world view stress as a challenge instead of a threat

The truly happy and successful people in this world view stress as a challenge instead of a threat I wish I wasn't like this. But I am. First post here so bear with me. I've had a slight stutter/...

Thanks for your input. I agree that establishing a high degree of self-assurance (my word for your "DGAF") is going to be beneficial. It's interesting to me that you separate self-assurance from confi...

I have had people react both negatively and positively to my stuttering. As a child I got teased of course but as an adult that isn't a problem. Ultimately you have control over how you let these thin...

Chill your stutter helped you stand out from the 20 other "normal" dudes. Keep applying for jobs....

the less anxious I am, the less nervouce I am, which brings about a slew of other ailments that affect my speech. Not to say that confidence is the opposite of anxiety, but to a degree, anxiety does a...

I think it has a lot to do with how society interprets stuttering - if you look at any character that stutters in any fictional story, not one of them *just stutters* (that I know about, anyway). It's...

As a researcher, I'm interested in mechanisms ... do you have a guess for why reduced stuttering results in increased confidence? Is stuttering severity more salient to 'confidence' than stuttering ...

I'd say generally yes. Confident days are days where I'm not an anxiety ridden mess. I have more clarity and am more in touch with reality, I have goals, things I look forward to and am generally more...

I think less stuttering can cause greater confidence, not the other way around. I think less anxiety can cause less stuttering, but I don't see anxiety as being the opposite of confidence....

interesting. Do you think that the days in which you feel more "confident" are days where you feel more in control of your speech?...

Ah, yes sorry! PWS is People who stutter! I try to avoid phones too, but it's easier for me to talk and stutter in an interview with a random person if they can't see my face. And I'm able to be in m...

(just to be sure, >PWS People With Stuttering? haven't seen the abbreviation before.) funny thing, now that you mention phones. i tend to want to _avoid_ phones. conversation is typically an eff...

You make a very good first point. But I still have many aspects in my life that I allow my speech to affect me. I still use it as an excuse when I don't want to talk to people. I just graduated with a...

maybe it's even the other way around - like, you got confident _becase_ you got better at handling your speech... not that we need to establish causal orders to discuss these concepts, of course. may...

You might just be one voice, but I'm sure there are many others who will see the piece the same way that you do, and I want to make it available to all audiences. When I get a chance, I will take a fi...

well, i'm just _one_ voice. don't feel like you have to take the criticism, just because it's there. might just be the way _i_ look at things. like, [i was writing something for another OP over here]...

right, so, there's a couple of things we need to take a look at here. first of all, i'd like you to reflect on what exactly goes on "in your head" when you're speaking, or trying to speak, as it were...

you go ahead and post in whichever manner you like! :) feel free to refer to this subthread in particular, just so neither of us have to repeat ourselves (as we all now, _repetition_ can be... dull). ...

So, if I can jump in here .... I think this is a very valuable discussion. I think you've both made some points that I would agree with and some that I would disagree with. I think this conversation...