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This might be the worst part, and how do I get past it?

This might be the worst part, and how do I get past it? Been stuttering all my life. With alot of people I´m basicly 100% fluent, in other situations and with some people I stutter like crazy. The wor...

I am a 21 year old male who has stuttered for as long as I can remember. My stutter is generally moderate, but swings occasionally to both ends of the spectrum. I've had a lot of time to think about m...

google stuttertalk. link worked for me. As for the conference, I dont know why you cant go or where you are with your speech, but if you ever feel lost or are at the end of your rope, you must go the...

Welcome to fluency based therapy. everything goes great in therapy and they assure you that if you just practice your techniques and put in the work, you'll be fluent. I mean, look at how great you so...

I can acknowledge that I probably communicate a sense of frustration at times when I'm struggling to get my words out. So yes, when family or whomever else will avoid starting a conversation, although...

SLP graduate student chiming in here. First things first, please listen to the other replies and stop jerking your head. It is a secondary behavior and it will only make it WORSE. How do you stop the ...

The slps who focus on fluency are almost setting you up for failure. They usually teach fluency shaping techniques or some similar techniques for "controlling" how you speak so it's never natural or s...

Lonely because of too little social interaction, still withdrawing from social events.

Lonely because of too little social interaction, still withdrawing from social events. I have been feeling quite low for the last year. I think it has much to do with seperating from my ex. I also liv...

Bilingual folks who stutter

Bilingual folks who stutter are you more fluent with one language than the next? I am and I honesty don't understand why. I speak pretty well in english but struggle speaking my native language. Anybo...

Is stuttering mental or physical?

Is stuttering mental or physical? Hello everyone I stutter since I was 8 and I am 16 right now. So today I kinda wonderd if stuttering is mental or physical? I know that I don't or rarelly stutter whe...

The rest of the article is still there .... yes. I thought I was already advocating for the rest of the article rather than focusing on a single statement. I don't feel attacked, I was just simply a...

I bet when you're feeling confident or needing to say something out of some deep push, that overrides the fear of fumbling words. The flow of conversation and temporary passion keeps the irrelevant th...

I think the spectating gaze is always going to have some element of primal gawking. Benign or malicious, the feeling that someone is taking your attention without much of a satisfying reward must lead...

Not really. I usually just write shorter pieces, but I could definitely expand the story since I usually do have a world imagined when I write theses short stories....

hey, i just quoted something i found spoke most of all about the person writing. don't take it as an attack or anything. the rest of the article's obviously still there. you work in the field, right?...

Well, sure it's easy to quote mine and find things you disagree with. But even still, I think you missed the point of that statement. It's part of a rhetorical question that poses the question, "does...

What if I told you there are stutterers out there with very noticeable stutterers working in advertisement and jobs that require even more public speaking? Excellent oral communication doesn't have an...

I understand your point: stuttering kind of defines us, both for good and bad things. But I really doubt that anyone enjoys the feeling of not being able to speak at the rate their brain produces word...

Thanks, it was a great read. But one thing here made me think. The guy giving speech said this: " All of us can talk just fine when we’re alone.". And in my case, this is not correct at all. I stil...

I like the emotion in this passage, it truly conveys the frustration that you feel. I hope it can help stutterers around the world and whereas it might not be a general cure I hope that for some peopl...