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I'm currently in university. I live in Sweden so my experience is probably a bit different than what you will experience. I am studying to be become an engineer and I have had to do some presentatio...

Who went to college & how’d it go?

Who went to college & how’d it go? Hello, So I’ve stuttered all my life. I go from times stuttering badly to not at all. I dropped out of U of Dayton in 2018 to do online marketing (plus fear o...

im honestly not sure. ive never once that one day they became an obstacle. when i was younger, id go through phases of letters i could and couldnt say. i remember when i was eleven, i couldnt say el...

phone calls are my worst fear. video calls not so much because you can still use visual cues. if you can, try use your hands as much as possible. it works for me sometimes. if you think your more ...

practice on friends using zoom calls to get used to remote conversations. when you speak, focus on a point on the monitor. maybe put a sticky note near the camera....

Need advice for virtual job interviews

Need advice for virtual job interviews I mostly stutter + have blocks when having social anxiety — so usually not around people I’m comfortable with. And I stutter + have blocks a lot in job intervie...

It's a complex thing to fully understand. My guess on why you didn't stutter while reading out loud with your classmates is because the attention is not thoroughly on you, when you speak alone, everyo...

Placement

Placement So I am a 26F with a moderate stutter, I frequently repeat and prolong sounds and experience blocks quite regularly (even more so when under pressure or in a bad frame of mind). I have a tea...

Hey i went to the college in first year but is not that i wanted to go in that college just my dad told me to go somewhere to study then i did and this college was shit but i went there more to find f...

Showing up is half the battle. Really. Force yourself to go. Talk to the school. You aren't alone. There are other people that require support at school. ASK FOR HELP. no reason that your stutter sh...

You are capable of doing anything you put your mind to and never let your stutter make you think otherwise. do you honestly not enjoy your course or do you think the anxiety is making you dislike it? ...

I'm scared to go back to college

I'm scared to go back to college (18m) I basically flunked my first year of community college bc of anxiety. I wouldn't show up to class bc I was scared of being called on in class , and with that I l...

it has gotten severe why!!!

it has gotten severe why!!! We're at a family reunion and Im devastated beyond words rn. i can no longer speak without stuttering. I stutter in every fucking sentence. I became that quiet and very a...

Avevo un amico a scuola che anche se ripeteva le stesse cose giuste degli altri ma balbettando e quindi molto lentamente prendeva voti più bassi di loro, è un peccato perché quando mi scrive vedo che ...

Yheres a lot to reply to here and I really appreciate the time you've spent typing this and I'm sure many others do too! So, i don't stutter on my own, I've said tongue twisters by myself and say the...

Most schools in Italy take into serious consideration your fluency for your grade in oral subjects and presentations, they think that stuttering means you aren’t very confident or knowledgeable to wha...

Regret not making friends

Regret not making friends I let stuttering stop me from having friendships or any relationships in my life. Now I am out of college and looking back I get a feeling that I messed up my college experi...

When I was in community college I had a professor tell me that “ we all stutter it’s not a big deal” and was told that if I don’t do it I’d get a 0 and that time my college didn’t have disability serv...

How should I handle this?

How should I handle this? I'm in med school and at times we're assessed through presentations ...where we have to individually present to the whole class. A month prior to this, I explained to the ...

I have the same problem It comes and goes but Ever since I was a kid I can’t answer the phone and say hello. I freeze and can’t get the hello out it’s like my throat is physically blocked. I have a n...