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commentr/StutterMar 31, 2026
2 points

I feel you. At least he had some self-awareness to feel ashamed. I hope it eats at him every time he remembers. ...

Emotional Experience
Shame & EmbarrassmentFrustration & Anger
commentr/StutterMar 31, 2026
8 points

All my friends and classmates have gotten used to my stuttering, but it's still awkward and embarrassing to speak/answer in front of an audience, and I avoid it as much as I can :(...

Emotional ExperienceAnticipation & Avoidance
Anxiety & Social JudgmentShame & EmbarrassmentHiding & Concealment
postr/StutterMar 31, 2026
27 points

I feel so hopeless...

I feel so hopeless... The last time I gave a presentation, it was a group project. I put in so much effort – researching, making the slides myself, practicing my speech to make it good. But as everyon...

Emotional Experience
Shame & EmbarrassmentSadness & HopelessnessHelplessness & Agency
postr/StutterMar 30, 2026
39 points

Still Happens when you get older

Still Happens when you get older I am 49 male working in a middle management, operations position. Today during a conversation between the two of us, my co-manager began imitating a Joe Biden stutter ...

Identity & DisabilityEmotional Experience
Stigma & BullyingShame & Embarrassment
commentr/StutterMar 29, 2026
4 points

hi brother, i am 26M and have stutter maybe like your age or when i was 5 i dont know either, so i have severe stutter before but now i somehow reduced it to mild or sometimes less but stills i dont l...

Emotional ExperienceSchool & Work
Shame & EmbarrassmentFrustration & AngerSadness & Hopelessness+3 more
commentr/StutterMar 29, 2026
3 points

Я тоже заикаюсь, но сейчас очень даже успешно с этим справляюсь. У меня были моменты, такие же как у тебя: я не могла произнести ни одного слова, перед этим не скорчив лицо (в попытках вытолкнуть слов...

Anticipation & AvoidanceIdentity & DisabilityEmotional Experience
Avoidance & SubstitutionAcceptance & PrideShame & Embarrassment+1 more
commentr/StutterMar 29, 2026
1 points

I spent my whole childhood in speech therapy. One speech therapist actually suggested I learn sign language because my stutter wasn't getting better. I was laughed at and taunted and socially isolated...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionShame & EmbarrassmentAnxiety & Social Judgment+3 more
commentr/StutterMar 27, 2026
2 points

This happens to me constantly 😭 Literally when I’m talking about something important or just something positive in general, somehow it’s always getting changed to my stutter…. “You sounded so fluen...

Emotional Experience
Shame & EmbarrassmentAnxiety & Social Judgment
postr/TrueStutterMar 27, 2026
1 points

The main sub is actively harmful with its toxic positivity.

The main sub is actively harmful with its toxic positivity. Going to r/stutter and opening a post about how someone faces clear discrimination, rejection and even depression because of the their stutt...

Identity & DisabilityEmotional Experience
Stigma & BullyingShame & Embarrassment
commentr/StutterMar 27, 2026
3 points

I don't have a mild-stutter. My whole childhood was spent in speech therapy, one of whom said I was essentially a lost cause and actually suggested I learn sign language. Every single horror story of...

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Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentShame & Embarrassment+2 more
commentr/StutterMar 27, 2026
2 points

It's good that you are seeing hypersensitivity. This is something we can address ourselves. Yes, I'd imagine most if not all stutterers are very sensitive about public shame and embarrassment from the...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceSocial & Relationships
Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentShame & Embarrassment+2 more
commentr/StutterMar 26, 2026
3 points

You aren't overthinking it, the people closest to you have made mockery of you. That's sad and depressing, but that's life as a stutterer, you never chose this so you don't have to hold on to other pe...

Identity & DisabilityEmotional Experience
Stigma & BullyingShame & EmbarrassmentFrustration & Anger
commentr/StutterMar 26, 2026
2 points

I got excited until I remembered I don't have control over what pops up in my head. I'm not trying to traumatized people ...

Emotional Experience
Anxiety & Social JudgmentShame & Embarrassment
commentr/StutterMar 25, 2026
2 points

I close my eyes and open my mouth; of course, I try to control it, but sometimes I can't. But I've had movements like punching myself in the chest and jumping backward. Once, I was at a store checkout...

Speech & StutteringEmotional ExperienceCauses & Variability
Blocks & StoppagesPhysical TensionShame & Embarrassment+1 more
commentr/StutterMar 24, 2026
16 points

Don't ever feel like a loser for your stutter since its not your fault. I had a crush at this girl at work that was one of the only people that liked me and never made fun of my stutter. I was obses...

Emotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Shame & EmbarrassmentStigma & Bullying
postr/StutterMar 24, 2026
15 points

I think i lost my chance with her

I think i lost my chance with her so theres this girl ive known for a while and my stutter kinda goes up and down, it has never been that bad whenever i talked to her. i like her and ik she likes me b...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceSocial & Relationships
Feared Words & NamesAvoidance & SubstitutionShame & Embarrassment+3 more
postr/StutterMar 24, 2026
2 points

Torn Apart By My Situations

Torn Apart By My Situations I experience blocks and my school years have been nothing but terrible. I have been bullied even by my teachers and I developed a fear for reading due to all those experien...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience
Feared Words & NamesAvoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & Monitoring+3 more
commentr/StutterMar 23, 2026
1 points

I think about that a lot, and it honestly makes me sooo depressed. I’m also 19 turning 20, and I’ve been trying for as long as I can remember to just speak and literally nothing works, at all. I think...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionShame & EmbarrassmentHelplessness & Agency+1 more
commentr/StutterMar 23, 2026
6 points

Dear sir i feel shameful at this age , even a toddler gives a better speech than me its that bad . It got worse since my bachelors . I have no personality bcoz of it and i dont even feel going to inte...

Emotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Shame & EmbarrassmentFrustration & AngerHelplessness & Agency+1 more
commentr/StutterMar 23, 2026
8 points

Dear sir i feel shameful at this age , even a toddler gives a better speech than me its that bad . It got worse since my bachelors . I have no personality bcoz of it and i dont even feel going to inte...

Emotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Shame & EmbarrassmentFrustration & AngerHelplessness & Agency+1 more