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Can I get some advice/encouragement on starting my new retail job? Nervous that I'll embarrass myself or the company when speaking to customers.

Can I get some advice/encouragement on starting my new retail job? Nervous that I'll embarrass myself or the company when speaking to customers. ...

Need help overcoming particular words

Need help overcoming particular words Hey guys, I have a subtle to moderate stutter. It's not so much a stutter in the traditional sense, but more so a block. A lot of times I have trouble saying word...

I just blame it on my cell phone lol. On the real though my own grandma has said come on spit it out. Dont let it get you down though it happens to all of us from time to time.....

Feel like shit :/

Feel like shit :/ Had to book an appointment yesterday and the lady asks me where i was born and the place i was born is so hard to say I stuttered so hard and just said any random place... Now I look...

Finding opportunities to disclose the stutter

Finding opportunities to disclose the stutter Hello again everybody! This is my 2nd post on this reddit and I just want to say that it really is great to have a place where all of us can discuss our s...

I don’t use the technique anymore. But there are definitely some people who respond really well to the program. No I haven’t kept in touch but spending time with people who stutter helped to normali...

To disclose or not to disclose

To disclose or not to disclose Hello fellas, Recently I have been pondering about this. I apologize that this might be a long one, but hopefully people who come across this can give me insights. Ba...

I have a short name so that definitely helps but that's not something people can really control. Definitely try to initiate conversation and lead in with a "hi I'm..." like others have said. But, alwa...

Work on 'keeping the energy moving forward'. You can practice alone in your room reading aloud. Try stuttering on each sylable of a word. Play around with it. Maybe b b bounce the first syllable of th...

I'm very receptive to speech therapy, but I know it's difficult to integrate strategies learned in speech therapy into real life conversations. There's good speech therapists and bad ones, like the on...

Auditory feedback devices are a mixed bag. There's the ever-popular speech-easy device. Works for some people, doesn't for others, and often, even when it does work, the user gets used to it eventuall...

I started doing this after I gave a different name in Starbucks (instead of my real name) and now I find it kind of fun. It definitely helped when I worked retail. ...

I think this is a similar technique which Marilyn Monroe used to control her stutter. I remember reading about it and how as time went on that stopped working as much since she got so used to the new ...

Yeah I bust into accents too or go into "manager mode" when I'm talking to someone at work. Helps a lot. ...

I used to pretend I had a southern accent because it was fun and stopped my stutter. ...

I do this as well. Flowing into it works a lot better than starting off with it. This works for other words too....

I couldn't read out of books either in middle school and would get made fun of constantly (this was when billy madison out - ttttt today junior!) so it was....not fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

When I am walking up to a new group of friends or know I am going to have to say my name, I am usually the one to initiate the hand shake and say my name. Takes a lot of the stress off from anticipati...

Practice, practice, practice. The more you avoid it the larger the psychological block will grow....

Don't avoid it. Every time you can, say it. Keep the energy moving forward, always. As soon as you start having thoughts of avoidance it will make it harder....