postr/StutterOctober 30, 2025

It's getting worse

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It's getting worse I started stuttering when I was around 12, and it has made my life really hard. As I grew older, it kept getting worse. Now I’m in college, and life feels even harder because of it. College presentations were the toughest part, but somehow I managed to push through and gained some confidence. For a while, I actually thought my stuttering was almost gone, and life finally felt like it was getting better. But now, in my final year, it’s come back worse than ever. I went from only stuttering around strangers to now stuttering even with the people closest to me. Today, it hit me hard I couldn’t even talk properly with my own family. It has never been this bad before, and honestly, it scares me.

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Causes & VariabilityEmotional Experience

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Severity & FluctuationAnxiety & Social JudgmentHelplessness & Agency