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This is so true, but it's very difficult to do. I personally fear it, because of the embarrassment that comes with it. Perhaps it's from the students that used to laugh at me during class. I dunno. If...

I've tried to practice before going into an interview but it doesn't matter how much I practice, I freeze up once I try to speak. ...

Speech therapy. Anxiety makes people unsecure so it makes you sttutter. You can't cure stutter only you can control it. Go to speech therapy. It'll be useful....

Stuttering Anxiety

Stuttering Anxiety Hi all, I have this idea in my head that I cannot pronounce certain words without stuttering and I don’t know what to do about it. My surname just happens to be one of those words....

Through my younger years I dealt with my stuttering rather well in my opinion. I had my issues like every other young person going through school like occasional teasing and being self conscience abou...

Discrimination?

Discrimination? I finished school back in December, 2013. I have been looking for a job since. I've filled out somewhere between 250 and 300 applications and have had over 40 interviews across about 2...

I am a supervisor in a distribution center. I also suffer from extreme anxiety which makes my speech worse, and I also experience physical pain from it, to the point of mental black outs. It is devast...

You just need to take a deep breath and and not let it get to you. I'm not going to ask you to tell me what happened, but try to fix the problem if you can. Don't stress over it, it will only make it...

Jobs for people who stutter?

Jobs for people who stutter? I've gone to many different types of interviews and they always end the same. "You're not suitable for the job." Whenever I get denied a job, it seems my fluency during th...

Lol. I just did a presentation at school today so this totally resonates with me. I ended up doing fine too but I'd been anxious about it for literally over a month. Damn I feel so relieved right now....

Same here. I got nervous for a high school speech the year before. I worried all year a few times a week. It was so sad, I know....

Social stutter?

Social stutter? So question guys... I had small case of stuttering since I was little. Most of my friends tell me they don't notice it. But in social situations especially when meeting new people, n...

Be careful dude. This can lead to a dark, dark place. Have you considered speech therapy? When I'm not in therapy (or even just lapse in my work) my fluency goes waaaaaaay down and leaves me incredibl...

Stutter-> loose confidence -> anxiety -> more stutter viscous cycle...

Totally. Then what gets me is the anger, the anger I have towards myself if I stutter anyway after hours of forethought and the anger towards the person I'm stuttering at if they laugh or, worse, don'...

Every time I have to do a presentation or make a speech in school, I get nervous several days beforehand. 100% of the time. And I ALWAYS end up doing fine. But that nervousness never goes away. So y...

Why stuttering is more of a problem than just the talking aspect and why it is underrated as a problem

Why stuttering is more of a problem than just the talking aspect and why it is underrated as a problem So not many people know that I stutter. Funnily enough I went through years of school without man...

> I probably spend 15 seconds a day actually experiencing stuttering, but the remaining 23 hours, 59 minutes and 45 seconds are spent being anxious, worried, and stressed over the next time I might...

A comment on some of the posts I see here offering help

A comment on some of the posts I see here offering help First off - this a fantastic subreddit. I can't believe it took me this long to think of searching for it! I've stuttered my entire life (I am...

Phone interviews are the worst. I had a phone interview scheduled for an internship at Google a couple of months ago but I bailed at the last moment 'cause the pressure was too much to take. ...