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Indeed. Unfortunately those safe situations will become less and less frequent the more you experience a stutter during said situations. It's a bad spiral....

I think it makes people more covert and only willing to speak at "safe moments"....

> Don't avoid anything. That's the key. Own your speech and don't let the anxiety ruin your life. You will stutter. You are a stutterer. But how you live with it is up to you. This is an interesti...

>Words that I can't possibly replace e.g. what's your name, where do you live, where do you work, what's your address etc. You're not alone. Most stutterers have this same issue. Words and phrases...

I only stutter on very particular things

I only stutter on very particular things Words that I can't possibly replace e.g. what's your name, where do you live, where do you work, what's your address etc. I used to stutter in the conventiona...

He's not wrong. Once you learn to accept yourself and youre stuttering, it'll be a lot easier for you to just be yourself, since you won't have stuttering on your mind much or really worry about it. Y...

What do you mean by 'multi-plantinum'? Are you a rapper by night? This is one of the good things about being a stutter, you become incredibly well drilled into a routine. I wonder if you do this, bu...

I am fragrance evaluator for a consumer products company. So it is a lot about convincing a group of people that a certain fragrance is the best option on a project. A lot of this convincing is done...

I understand what you're going through. I used to hate phone calls and I guess I still do but I learned some tricks down the road. Like the previous poster said, just use words you have the least tro...

Damn, I feel the same way a lot of times. I am currently seeking employment and know exactly how you feel. I know it may be a bad habit but I tend not to look people directly in the eye (maybe their f...

It is somewhat true. I find that with practice it helps a lot. However, it is still difficult for me to read a script (knowing the words I will stutter on) in front of people. In the past, when I ha...

I feel like my issue is a lot weirder than most. (I stutter as well, mind you.) See, I suffer from major aphasia. I lose words, all the time. Basic, stupid words. I lost the word "cup" the other day, ...

> I've always had a very minute stutter Right here. Most don't realize that everyone has some degree of disfluency - 99% of the time it's unnoticeable. Anxiety and being tired are two of my big t...

Goodness Gracious do I know that feeling. I was introducing myself to a stand up comic recently and he had that response. The person I was with, also a stand up comic, made a comment to the effect o...

I was thinking about this. My FedEx guy is a quite dude with dreads. I was planning on growing dreads but my mom said no one would hire me with dreads. I think this may be the job for me. Thank you...

I held back doing a teaching or business degree. I was always interested in becoming a teacher since forever. I always thought that my teachers weren't interesting or engaging enough so I always had t...

I had a job interview

I had a job interview I had a job interview for a Tier 3 Technical Support position with a major telecommunications company. It was my first interview since graduating college. I have been stuttering ...

I actually don't stutter often when speaking a second language. Sometimes I do, but it's when I forget a word....

Not necessarily true. I can't read a script to save my life. I'm much better off NOT reading a script word for word because then I can substitute words that I will fuck up. ...

It's the same when someone puts on an accent, or for some people when they speak a different language, or when we speak to ourselves alone (for some of us). I know there's a few SLP's on here.......