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Congrats man. My gf works at a call center and I've always wanted to work with her but I'm weary of my speech. How did u do it?...

I stutter the most with my family members. It sucks because I'm totally comfortable around them. I don't know why I do it....

Congrats! Do you mind sharing how you prepared for the interview, what went through your mind during the process etc? I'll be facing tons of interviews after a couple of months and I'm already stresse...

This. The same thing happens to me. Especially around my dad is when I have the worse trouble.. Around friends I'm pretty fluent.. and then when I'm saying my name/introducing my self I have trouble a...

I do this on the phone. I immediately go into block mode and cannot say my name, address, etc anything. It's horrifically embarrassing. My biggest nightmare is contacting a doctor or dentist and heari...

I too experience this on a daily basis. Although I feel comfortable around my parents, I actually have blocks around them the most. With close friends, I probably experience my best fluency. And as fa...

Seems as if we have the exact same problem. I don't stutter near family or friends. If I feel as if I'm going to I just slow down or simply overcome the battle in my mind. It's when I'm talking to st...

Are you certain that you lack social skills? I have a severe stutter but I think my social skills are fine. When I have good days I'm very talkative and through texting I have no problems interacting ...

Usually with dates and everything, I don't have much trouble talking. It's just mainly introducing myself and saying my name (and then there's those times when I call people I don't know).. Not just w...

Xanax is a benzo and from personal experience, I dont find it directly helpful. Instead it just sort of dulls my emotions and my feeling towards stuttering, but did not increase fluency, on the contra...

Definitely. If I had to self diagnos, I'd say it's stress/anxiety because like I said it didn't appear until after my marriage problems, and shows up only in stressful situations. It seems like I ...

You didn't scare me at all, that's one of the reasons I posted here. I tried to look online for something that matched what I was going through, but I really couldn't find anything other than for p...

> nobody's thankful that they stutter. Agreed, but the point of her article was in fact that she is thankful for the positive aspects of her stutter. Look at it this way, stuttering has many more ...

Written with a smile on my face.

Written with a smile on my face. I can't be arsed to write my whole life story, but yeah, I stutter. I have been for my entire life, as far as I am concerned. The difficulties of my stuttering goes...

What if they don't know whats a stutter or a stutterer :( :( ...

Any clever response to "heh, not sure about your name?" after exchanging names?

Any clever response to "heh, not sure about your name?" after exchanging names? I usually do a soft laugh because i know they will probably be embarrassed when they figure out that i have a stutter, w...

Anyone else dreading Thanksgiving dinner with their significant other?

Anyone else dreading Thanksgiving dinner with their significant other? I'm talking about dinner with her/his family. I have a mini one today at her house. I hope it goes well. She has such a big fami...

You stutter less in your second language because there's less pressure on you to speak fluently in English. If I was to go to Spain and speak Spanish, people would expect me to speak horribly so I wou...

It's nearly 12 am here now, writing this took longer than i though it would. >Too expensive. You are from america i guess? That's a real bummer, in germany that would be covered by insurance. &g...

>Saw a speech therapist in grade 3. Speech improved a bit but not by much. Haven't seen one since You definitely should see an speech therapist again. Even if it sucks, it can only help. >My s...