There's no absolute cure, but here's what has made my stutter a lot more manageable (from the perspective of 20 year old who doesn't have access to speech therapy, but has had a stutter all their life) * The primary school teacher method. This normally works when I'm in a position where I'm not anxious and have time to gather my thoughts. Slow your breathing down, and pretend you're talking to somebody to who you've to speak very carefully to (like a child, an elderly grandparent etc). **Speak slowly through the words you don't have a stutter on like a teacher would explaining something complex.** As bizarre as this sounds, it works for a lot of people, even if they end up sounding a little monotone and boring. At the start, I found it hard to continuously speak slowly and ended up rushing again and stammering- but over time it's become something I slip into and may work for you too! * **When I have to read out something, I absolutely tell myself that I have to take a quick deep breath at every comma or full stop.** No exceptions or I start to stammer. Yes, it makes it sound a bit weird to the people sitting nearby me, but it gets the words out to everyone else. * **Swimming** on a bi-weekly basis really improved my stammer due to it being just a lot of breathing exercises. * If you struggle with one-word stuff such as your name, saying thanks or what not- try adding words infront of them. I.e like "My name is Gabrielle" or "I appreciate that, thank you." or "The answer that I got was 10" rather than gabrielle, thanks or 10. * Taking **B-complex vitamins** seem to really help a lot of people, I personally haven't tried that, but something simple like that is worth a shot * Lowkey **sing your words rather than say it**. I did this during a presentation once, when I slipped out of the monotone teacher method due to nervousness I sang out a few sentences, it was weird, but I did get a good mark on the presentation sooo... apparently, you use a different part of your brain to sing rather than speak. * **Actively find opportunities to speak.** This is a horrible route, but my god is it effective. I have stammered countless times when going out of my way to speak, but the more confidence I got and the more manageable my stammer became. At one point it completely went away because I stopped thinking about it before publicly speaking. Here is everything that I do to help my stammer- obviously each person has a different stammer and a different coping mechanism. But here is the number one thing that everyone with a stammer should know: * **No one gives a fuck. Seriously. I'll say it again with my 20 years of stammering, literally, nobody remembers that you stutter even if they do notice, they don't care.** There are 3% of people who will smirk or laugh- but here's another real insight into it: they are completely and utterly insecure of themselves. One girl at my school was particularly nasty towards me trying to answer questions, guess what? She had a form of dyslexia that made it difficult for her to read words out loud. This bitch was laughing at me trying to do something she (understandably) couldn't. Your lecturer probably didn't think back much on your meeting, nor is going to remember that you couldn't say assignment. I've stammered through a phone call with the CEO of my company, I'm still working find there. I spent a quarter of my life pretending that I forgot my own name when people asked, I used to cry about it but now when I talk to those people they fondly remember that the unusual incident made them smile. When I get stuck now, I sometimes say "oh sorry, I have a bit of a stammer sometimes," a lot of people say "it's ok!" or "my brother has a stammer too" and are generally lovely about it. Anyone who isn't kind about it can fuck right off. Don't feel disappointed in yourself love, being hard on yourself for something you can't control will lead to unnecessary stress. You wouldn't feel disappointed if you were unable to walk if you didn't have a leg. Take everything a day at a time, you got this!<3 (also your dad sounds like an ass that doesn't know what tonsils are)