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Strangers i can barely talk. Acquaintances i cant talk with few impediments. Close friends i can talk fairly fluent. Extended family i can talk with few impediments. Immediate family i can barely ta...

First off, it will get easier. If phone calls are one of the situations you avoid, you can practice talking to people on the app wakie or by calling stores, etc. It's OK to stutter, a lot of people ar...

Official phone calls!! :/

Official phone calls!! :/ Hello reddit, So I got allocated to this project (IT) which requires to (*sigh) call the customer and update her about the current progress. It is like nightmare becoming tr...

I think the only way to get over it us to consistently put yourself in your avoidance situations. Start small....

Stuttering and social anxiety

Stuttering and social anxiety Anyone else have this unholy combination? If so, how do you deal with it or how has it been treated? I feel that they aggravate each other and the therapy I've had for ha...

Don't just rely on therapy, try to help yourself too. Figure out what makes the improvement possible and try to bring it to other contexts. e.g. I usually have a few close friends I'm much much better...

Making smalltalk with a random stranger with no pressure, I freeze up. Interviewing a stranger for a job, no problem. I struggle speaking to family too, and I've always wondered if I never developed ...

Heh, yeah, and that's not really a cure at all, it's a symptom. EDIT: Being silent, I mean. It's forced upon us, in this sense, which isn't curing anything (just removing us from a world we want to t...

Sometimes, I'll anticipate trouble and rephrase. Sometimes I can manage if I hesitate slightly before continuing. Other times, I'll just power through it, in stubborn spite of block/repetition, if I ...

For me at least, I used to try and avoid stuttering by using synonyms and other vocabulary that would transition me away from danger-syllables. Sometimes it would work, and sometimes I would work in m...

When you know that you are about to stutter, what do you do? What has helped you?

When you know that you are about to stutter, what do you do? What has helped you? I tend to stop, try to say the stuck letter quietly and continue normally once I can say it. It can happen that, when ...

The other guy gave great advice, I'll expand on his third point. First off, he's right, most of us on here will likely stutter, at least to some extent, for the rest of our lives. That leaves us with ...

Oh man, this is a tough one! If you tell people you stutter you elicit a certain response. If you keep it a secret then it could give wrong signals to people e.g "does this guy/gal have problems??"....

My stuttering has gone worse.

My stuttering has gone worse. It wasn't that bad just 5 months ago. I'd only struggle with some letters like w, a, b, m. After I start the sentence I'm gonna say, it's all good from there and I'd carr...

When you fight your stutter you fight yourself. You're telling yourself a bonafide part of you is wrong and bad and needs to be eliminated (you can't just eliminate and stop stuttering). Accepting you...

I don't know how I feel about this. A month ago I was severe to the point of being physically unable to order at a restaurant or cafe... this happened multiple times. I would want a coffee - struggle ...

No my point was you shouldn't lie about it in the first place, no matter the situation. Otherwise we're all just trying to hide something about ourselves, while also letting the stutter dictate how we...

Lmfao! You're right about that. However you don't tell them you're shit faced, you tell them you took a shot to calm your nerves. ...

So you're in a job interview: Interviewer: what skills do you have? Me: I know how to c-c-c... Interviewer: Is something wrong? Me: Oh don't mind me, I'm just really drunk right now. Something ...

I agree to that extent. At the same time those who have stuttered severely 10/20+ years can't just reverse the irregular movements of the cural diaphragm. Well I mean, you can but it'd take atleast a ...