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Maybe, maybe not. What if they're laughing about your hair? Try to view stuff like behind the back gossip as just that. I do the same thing, I think 'we' tend to put MUCH more focus on other people'...

I'm the same way. I have a tiny voice in my head, "Damnit, I was fluent during the first time!"...

My GOAT coping mechanism got ruined by a friend (which I know that he didn't intended to make me feel bad about it). I have a hard time explaining things to people without stuttering, especially if...

When asked to repeat something it’s kind of a “reset button” for me. More often than not it comes out way easier and better the second time. Although your example is pretty specific. I don’t know abo...

Run through the sentence, no not that word, can't start a sentence with an h, change it to that, ok, no pause, here I go... Didn't come out, no one noticed, than God, ok, 1...2... Topics changed, than...

Preparing what I say ahead of time. Exhausting - so I stop this practice at the end of the day with family. Switch words. Having stuttering has been a blessing for my vocabulary - although I consider...

Highly urge you to reconsider. This is as far of an avoidance mechanism as possible! Changing your name is the same as word replacing, only you are literally losing your identity. The reason you stutt...

I would go to speech therapy and have this be a central focus. Unless you have tourettes, this is a learned involuntary behavior and have become automatic. But it can be slowly unlearned or rather, re...

Yeah, definitely not all about psychology and not about the sounds, plosives are hard for some people. The good thing about difficult sounds though is that is something you can effectively work to imp...

I say don’t say anything and just deal with it. I have a mild stutter too and have often contemplated telling people at my new jobs about it but I never do and things always turn out fine. People get ...

Is it worth telling boss or just deal with it?

Is it worth telling boss or just deal with it? Just got a job at a nonprofit in DC area. I'm almost 24 and have had professional jobs before but this is the first time I will have calls coming in to ...

I stutter more around my family because I let my guard down. I’m relaxed. Do not really want to use my speech tools with them like I feel I must in the world out there. It’s my natural state....

It's nice to hear people using similar strategies as I do! Generally Shifting dialect Hiding/changing words I often imagine myself walking out of a door, sometimes I feel stuttery if I feel that I ...

If I'm going to a spoken exam (or making a speech, phonecall etc), instead of making a script word-by-word, I'll approach the situation with a general idea of what to say instead and improvise. If I ...

In my case I barely stutter when I'm talking to someone who I'm very attached to. But I stutter a lot when I'm excited, nervous or ashamed (whoever I'm talking to) So I just try to stay calm, and not ...

How do you deal with telephone-phobia?

How do you deal with telephone-phobia? I'm 25, been stuttering my whole life, been scared of telephones for half of that time. I won't go through the frustrations of telephone calls that we face (as I...

Changing my name - I think it will significantly help my social skills in spite of my stutter

Changing my name - I think it will significantly help my social skills in spite of my stutter I have been a stutterer since I was about 5 years old. Not sure how I got it - I might have been mimicking...

I had a terrible phone interview a few months back. I mean absolutely awful. I ended up getting the job anyway. I advertised that I stuttered at the end (I should have done it at the start), and that ...

Need to rant. Had the worst phone interview I've had in my life.

Need to rant. Had the worst phone interview I've had in my life. I just finished up with a phone interview for a summer internship. It was just so bad and I could feel how uncomfortable the interviewe...

I have a bit of twitch in my right eye which I really hate. Normally people can't tell I stutter due to all of my substitutions and not speaking at certain times but with my twitch I just look a bit w...