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I've only met 1 person who knew I had a stutter (or at least was comfortable telling me) and that was only because a family member had it too. Otherwise I always get the "are you okay" or "is somethin...

Sounds like it's worth a shot to me. The anxiety is the worst. I was dealing with a lot of that before the phone interview, and of course once the stuttering starts getting bad it just makes the anx...

My biggest fear is having a phone interview. Even when colleges were calling me and they were brief conversations, there were always disfluencies. Glad the actual interview went well, but did you tell...

As a junior in college who gets drunk before phone interviews/conference calls to deal with stutter anxiety over the phone, I commend you on your achievement. Hopefully I will get there some day. I am...

I have been in this situation, but instead I was just stuttering like crazy and it made a bad impression; I almost felt like the interviewer thought I was on something or just hung over or something. ...

Does anyone know some effective relaxation tehniques??? (I need to presentate by tomorrow!)

Does anyone know some effective relaxation tehniques??? (I need to presentate by tomorrow!) So I have a pretty bad stammer, especially when I need to presentate something. Tomorrow I will have an exam...

This provokes the thought, do you believe that we're too critical of ourselves when we speak? When we don't hear ourselves, we can't pick out our speech flaws, but when we can hear ourselves we're too...

I think it might be more about us feeling safer, like we have more leeway than about other people being too consumed. ...

Yeah I know, but I just wish people were more considerate of things they are not educated about. I think it is a common courtesy which people does not seem to act upon, more often than not. But I thi...

Am I the only who doesn't stutter in very loud environments?

Am I the only who doesn't stutter in very loud environments? So, whenever I'm at a football or soccer match for example and the environment is super loud, I simply do not stutter. When I'm at a loud b...

Could be because you're thinking about it too much. I know that right now, if I was to magically learn the basics of Arabic and go to the an Arabian country and speak it to someone, I'd have no hesita...

denied job because of stutter

denied job because of stutter I went in for an interview at a big chain of stores to stock shelves. My stutter has become so bad that I can not even get one word out, or say my name, or really anythin...

I was very nervous at first and physically shaking... I found it hard to say my name but I held myself together and worked through it. I hope I did okay. ...

Maybe if you use a slight accent? Try to be confident about it, tell yourself over and over the evening before that everything will go fine, don't think about the "if" factor. Regards!...

Maybe if you use a slight accent? Try to be confident about it, tell yourself over and over the evening before that everything will go find, don't think about the "if" factor. Regards!...

Wow i know exactly what you mean, i don't have a really bad stutter. I only stutter when i am under stress or thinking about stuttering and still then it is a minor stutter. I also believe that my stu...

Ha, I love that determination! And I hear ya. I read a quote the other day (don't remember where) saying something like "You probably wouldn't stutter if you didn't know you had a stutter" and that ju...

New here and this is my first post so here it goes... Confidence definitely has something to do with my stutter. I stutter more when I think about stuttering. When I stutter on a word it gets added...

For all of those who stutter..

For all of those who stutter.. do you ever feel as if you know that you can stop stuttering? This probably won't apply to those who stutter because of a neurological problem, but I believe that most o...

I need to save this and read through it whenever I'm having a hard day. Thanks for being an inspiration! I'm struggling with the fear and anticipatory anxiety relating to my stutter. ...