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My long stutter Story and how I overcame it

My long stutter Story and how I overcame it Hi Reddit, I'm 32 year old and for 25 years I had a stutter. I had periods (weeks) where I thought I got rid of it for it to only come back. I really hated...

General advice for everyone with anxiety coming here.

General advice for everyone with anxiety coming here. Alright, I see an enormous amount of posts linking anxiety and stuttering together. Mostly young adults. I'm not a frequenter of this subreddit, b...

Self-Acceptance

Self-Acceptance I'm interested in hearing where others are at in terms of their degree of self-acceptance and what led to it. Personally, while I'm well aware of the fact that I do stutter, I wouldn...

Do we all feel like we're all waiting for that breakthrough that will make us so confident that we'll be relieved from our stutter?

Do we all feel like we're all waiting for that breakthrough that will make us so confident that we'll be relieved from our stutter? It has come to my realisation that for nearly my whole life I've bee...

General advice for someone with a heavy stutter?

General advice for someone with a heavy stutter? Before I begin, I'll give you some information about myself to clear up any confusion or questions that might arise later on. (The whole post is quite ...

Maybe I can help?

Maybe I can help? I'm fairly new to this subreddit and wanted to contribute my experiences/techniques in hopes that they will help you to some degree. I'm 26 and have had a stutter all of my life....

21, almost 22. Its hard to say, I have never really known life without a stutter. I do not know what I would be like without it...as of right now, I can say yes I blame it I guess...

Cool song, dude. I've had similar experiences, that I'm totally fluent when I sing or rap. There's definitely a close link between stuttering and rhythm... I believe speech therapists use rhythm exerc...

I would be very interested in hearing from more people who don't stutter what their opinion is on those of us who do. I think a lot of my anxiety is based on what other people think -- and they are pr...

Confidence is everything, at least that's my experience over the last 32 years as a stutterer. Well done on the presentation. That took some balls. ...

I work in customer service talking on the phone all day, I had a really bad stutter (I won't do the guys and girls on here the injustice of claiming I have one since I speak perfectly now, though I do...

It has definitely shaped my personality... I could never make fun of anyone growing up because I knew how bad it sucked to get made fun of for stuttering....

I have a feeling that if I didn't stutter, I'd have spent most of my teenage years being an asshole to people. You are right, stuttering has make me thankful and humble....

I agree about it adding to our character. And a lot would certainly rather not stutter. I'm just merely trying to focus on the positives rather than the negatives (which I used to do). If I didn't stu...

I find stuttering good because I feel as if I'm part of a minority. It adds to my character, people are usually genuinely intrigued by it. I've even thought, if I didn't stutter wouldn't life be borin...

There are stutterers who hardly have any anxiety about their stuttering. He must be one of them. ...

I think this is a really important question that I think gets to one of the roots of why so many of us struggle. I've been trying to answer this question for a while now and though im getting closer, ...

Kind of hard to explain. I would feel nervous in my head trying to go over how I should say what I want. I'd run out of breathe and my first words would be hard to get out. I seen myself as being awkw...

OP I have had days wayyyy down in the dumps because of my stutter. but at the end of the day, it's only you facing it. no one is gonna help you, no one CAN help you, it is a choice you have to make to...

I stopped allowing it to bother me. It's like when you stop responding to the swarm of flies. They are still there but you just don't notice them. Likewise the stutter is still there but I do not let ...