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No problem! I know what you mean man -- "the iceberg phenomenon" i've heard it called and it's true! non-stutterers don't understand the feeling unless you tell them. The more I can be "open" with my ...

Just saying “yes” to things outside my comfort zone. Started off part time, helping with seminars etc, no real public speaking yet. And then I was asked to take workshops which was a bit more nerve wr...

Not a technique I’m afraid, I just stopped caring. I know it’s a lot easier said than done, but you have to challenge yourself and live your life as if you could speak fluently. No one in my life care...

Send him this, from a mod of /r/stutter, who you can assure is not an expert in anything but graphic design occasionally, lol. --- For almost every stutterer, there is a person in their life who ha...

Yeah, like using stretchy speech or gentle onsets or breathing techniques. I can gain fluency if I slow down my speech and stretch my sounds a little but obviously that's not ideally how I would be co...

Stuttering in the headlines, misunderstood yet again: "Kavanaugh stutters and stammers before admitting there are no laws that govern the male body"

Stuttering in the headlines, misunderstood yet again: "Kavanaugh stutters and stammers before admitting there are no laws that govern the male body" [https://thinkprogress.org/kamala-harris-questions-...

For some reason I stutter less with spontaneous speech. By fluency shaping, do you mean that you alter the pronunciation of vowels and words to make them easier to say? One technique that does help ...

I understand. I'm 39 and lasted a year of high school without any stammer. That was a serious acting achievement. After that year I dropped out and moved to another school where I was open with my stu...

It almost did – while looking ahead to university, I narrowed down the choices to computer science and accounting. I enjoyed both, but accounting seemed to be the best fit if only I didn’t stutter. ...

Absolutely not, but I'd be lying if said I didn't have my fair share of doubts. I'm currently a pharmacist and you just imagine the crazy drug names that I can trip up on when I'm counselling patients...

First timer.... too much to finally say after 37 years of not sharing with other stutter/stammer folk and I’m happy to feel comfortable sharing now....

First timer.... too much to finally say after 37 years of not sharing with other stutter/stammer folk and I’m happy to feel comfortable sharing now.... My stutter/stammer (as I exhibit both at differe...

Sort of. Switched my major in college from computer engineering to Communication Sciences & Disorders (speech therapy/audiology). Allowed me to open up about the disability greatly, and everyone w...

No. I majored in civil engineering and currently a traffic engineer. My uncle bluntly told me to not do engineering because it involves alot of speaking. That lit a fire under me a little bit. Some d...

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh yes! Absolutly. I see it as a favor that people do me. So I'm trying to work more in other areas. Especially since I was a student. Now less....

How do you work as a secretary/receptionist if you have a moderate to severe stutter

How do you work as a secretary/receptionist if you have a moderate to severe stutter My friend works in a retirement home and a new spot opened up for a receptionist/secretary and she knows that i'm v...

I used to answer almost everything I wasn’t expecting with “what was that?” and then a second later would answer normally — it was like my brain took a second longer for to process what I heard than i...

Yeah, I have a little bit of an issue with word retrieval, as in I know the idea of what I want to say, but sometimes can't retrieve the right word from my brain to say it. I find that I also ask peo...

I think I’ve had so little experience with fluent speech as a stutterer that the word generator part of my brain doesn’t know how to properly function when I’m speaking. My body can be so focused on H...

Try to just talk to people by saying little things like hi or ask a question... It kinda helped me...

I cringe so hard when I stutter it almost hurts

I cringe so hard when I stutter it almost hurts Only reason I'm alive is because guns are hard to come by in my country. If I had one, I would probably shoot myself at the first stutter, rather than g...