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Starting a new job has made my stutter worse and I needed to see this today 🫶🏻...

I’m already boring ash. I only have like 2 good friends from like middle school. I rarely initiate conversations with even family members, let alone strangers. I rarely attend social gatherings. I’m h...

The only secret sauce I have learned in my 40 years of living and struggling with a stutter my whole life is feeling confident when I talk. There are times I can't get past it. I had to figure out wha...

I’m so glad! It’s a funny irony that I spent a lot of my life trying to hide my stutter and now it’s my entire career! And yes! Exploring is always so much fun lol it’s better with friends to explore...

hey im a medical student and most of my exams in clinical rotations are oral. i usually just tell them i stutter , and just stutter my ass off all through the exam. havent interviewed for residency ye...

I used to have a severe stutter. I prayed about it and spent about a year in speech therapy. She taught me techniques to improve my fluency. Having someone to talk too that actually understood me real...

I went to school for art photo. I started when photo was under the transition of binary to digital. The lab was/is comforting to me. I still shoot film and alt processes. Respect for being able to...

I was same way when I was in my teens and early 20s and was getting ready to choose a field to do masters in. I was inclined towards MBA but the fear of non stop presentations for 2 years and then bei...

I’m a lawyer. I’m in court every single day speaking with a stutter. It’s an obstacle sometimes but it doesn’t stop me. You just have to be comfortable being uncomfortable...

Aah, yeah, that is one area that I got lucky in. I started photographing for a social media company on the site, and when they stopped offering photography services, I took some of those clients. Sinc...

Nice! It seems like you’ve been pretty successful at it then. I think for myself, client acquisition might be the most difficult part for me to get past. Everyone recommends things like cold calling ...

Left my day job 10 years ago to go all-in as a corporate photographer. Been growing each year, and I’ve been told I’m basically the “go to” person in the area for corporate events now. Stuttering was...

Are there any entrepreneurs or business owners out there?

Are there any entrepreneurs or business owners out there? For a while, one of my biggest goals has been to start my own business and become self-employed. I experimented with different things in the p...

Ironically I became a writer who mainly writes scripts. While a good part of my work is digital so doesn't really involve speaking to people, as a freelancer I need to speak with clients if I want to ...

You have to realize that you can do anything that a fluent person can do, you just have to do it with a stutter. Never say no to a challenge, even if you know your stutter is going to be a roadblock. ...

I had a drastic improvement with my stutter during my last job. I was 24. It was a desk job, mostly using my brain rather than my mouth, but there were daily Zoom meetings in which I had to verbally...

I am currently doing an internship at FAANG(those who are in CS will know) and its really competitive to get into, but at the time of the interview I was so numb after all those rejections that I didn...

I’m a mechanic, my stutter got me into a few fights with bullies at school but it hasn’t really had much a negative impact on my adult life. I will add that I worked my ass off using techniques I lear...

I was 16 when I applied for the whole aed forces was told my stutter was a liability to my potential squad. I am 10 years older but the Army recruiter was great about it. Helped me pick a college, hel...

What's the next step?

What's the next step? I (21M) have stuttered all my life. I mostly had a hard time making friends and talking to people until I was about 18. I do have friends and a social life, I'm not that afraid t...