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I think another angle to this is that YOU need to like/accept yourself even with a stutter. If you hate or are ashamed of your speech, and have trouble accepting that, it is difficult to ask others ...

You can't really compare the dating reality of a female stutterer to a male stutterer. Both genders are attracted to different things. Women are in general attracted to confidence. It can be hard to b...

So when she asked you why you repeated a word you laughed at yourself instead of telling her you stutter? When someone suggested you watch the King's Speech (who sounds like she was your friend by t...

thanks for the reply but I don't think i'm guessin a whole lot. One girl actually asked me why I repeated "whatever word it was" and we kinda laughed about it. Soon after that she told me she was goin...

You are really doing a lot of guessing here. You do not know these women are not turning into long term relationships because of your speech impediment, in fact you readily admit that no one has told ...

Stuttering and Dating

Stuttering and Dating Stuttering and Dating are one of the hardest things I have dealt with. I am now 31 years old and have yet to find a longterm girlfriend. I have gone out and dated pretty girls in...

Bilingual folks who stutter

Bilingual folks who stutter are you more fluent with one language than the next? I am and I honesty don't understand why. I speak pretty well in english but struggle speaking my native language. Anybo...

I HATE USING THE PHONE.

I HATE USING THE PHONE. I don't have a really bad stutter most of the time, but it almost ALWAYS happens on the phone, even with people I'm incredibly comfortable around. Sigh....

Yes this! This is exactly how my stutter works, usually on a day to day basis. If im feeling confident I can say all the words, as soon as I get nervous it swnowballs...

I've read this as well as some of John Harrison's work(https://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/Infostuttering/Harrison/john.htm this speech transcript i highly recommend). They made an impact on me in that...

What is this book about? I've been reading many self-help books the past few months and nothing has helped so I am skeptical about this. I feel very high after reading books as well only to come cras...

Does anyone elses stuttering fluctuate between being perfectly fluent and not being able to speak at all?

Does anyone elses stuttering fluctuate between being perfectly fluent and not being able to speak at all? Sometimes I can speak fluently for several months. My confidence raises to its highest and I a...

It sounds like sleep is useful to you! With the complexity of stuttering, sleep can probably help in many aspects - improved confidence, decreased anxiety, more cognitive reserves, etc, and likely var...

I'd say 50/50. I sometimes use circumlocution, but I've been trying to force myself to say what I mean and be comfortable with my stutter. I'd say I have mild stuttering. For several years I hardly st...

A friend of mine is a mental health advocate and speaks at conferences about having depression and bipolar. He has a quip that he is quite proud of: "My depression is all in my head, the same way tha...

or u just dont care when you are in a game. the fear of stuttering is sometimes the greater foe ...

I LOVE YOU

I LOVE YOU It breaks my heart reading all of your posts because I can relate to everything. This is a BIG struggle. Stuttering is so intense that it's insane. What is it, why is it? I always ask mysel...

Low esteem is definitely related to stuttering. Sometimes my days start shitty, sometimes they start good, but however, I've learned that my conversation with people can influence that a lot. If I t...

I bet when you're feeling confident or needing to say something out of some deep push, that overrides the fear of fumbling words. The flow of conversation and temporary passion keeps the irrelevant th...

I think we all have the same feelings here. Seeing the obvious greener grass and all those things a fluent voice can bring. I mean, you've probably sat there listening to nonsense and wanted to correc...