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postr/StutterJul 21, 2025
10 points

Struggling with Studying and Life – Feeling Hopeless

Struggling with Studying and Life – Feeling Hopeless Hi everyone, I’m a 22-year-old woman currently in my second year of pharmacy school, and I stutter. It’s not extremely severe — sometimes I can sp...

Speech & StutteringEmotional ExperienceSocial & Relationships
Repetitions & ProlongationsAnxiety & Social JudgmentShame & Embarrassment+3 more
postr/StutterJul 21, 2025
29 points

Just hung up mid-interview

Just hung up mid-interview I had a 15min call with a job recruiter today. I currently have bad migraines in addition to my stutter. Practiced beforehand, even left fluent voice messages for friends, a...

Causes & VariabilitySpeech & StutteringEmotional Experience
Stress & Fight/FlightBlocks & StoppagesAnxiety & Social Judgment+1 more
commentr/StutterJul 21, 2025
11 points

I hear you. Some days it’s UNBEARABLE. You feel you can’t get out a single word out of your mouth. I know… you don’t feel it might get better. I also never believe. Then it gets better… the tric...

Speech & StutteringCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Blocks & StoppagesStress & Fight/FlightAnxiety & Social Judgment
postr/StutterJul 21, 2025
13 points

Is it possible to be social even with a stutter?

Is it possible to be social even with a stutter? Hi, I'm not used to writing long texts. But I have a few questions that are on my mind: 1.Can someone who stutters be social? I don't like to be an i...

Social & RelationshipsEmotional Experience
Friendships & BelongingLoneliness & IsolationAnxiety & Social Judgment+1 more
commentr/StutterJul 21, 2025
3 points

I'm in Poland and want to do the same. Sadly I don't have any documents confirming that I went to speech therapy because it was years ago. I'm seeing a psychiatrist so I'm sure she'll help me prove th...

Therapy & ProfessionalCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Seeking TherapyTrauma & PsychologicalAnxiety & Social Judgment
commentr/StutterJul 21, 2025
1 points

how did you achieve it man? when craving for fluency is on mind 24/7 - it's like I feel my life is incomplete and envy those who speak effortlessly and fluently. How did you let go of it altogether an...

Community & SupportEmotional Experience
Advice RequestsAnxiety & Social JudgmentHelplessness & Agency+1 more
commentr/StutterJul 21, 2025
1 points

Yeah, I get that. You can't be angry all the time, unless you're happy having no friends and being *that* guy. Yeah, I get that. It's defo complicated as I can also stutter when I don't think I'm an...

Causes & VariabilityEmotional ExperienceAnticipation & Avoidance
Propositionality & WeightAnxiety & Social JudgmentOverthinking & Monitoring+1 more
postr/StutterJul 21, 2025
6 points

What goes on in your head when you stutter?

What goes on in your head when you stutter? I'm always curious what goes on in people's heads when they talk. Especially if they can talk flawlessly without a stutter or any doubt in their mind that t...

Anticipation & AvoidanceSpeech & StutteringEmotional Experience
Overthinking & MonitoringBlocks & StoppagesAnxiety & Social Judgment+2 more
commentr/StutterJul 20, 2025
1 points

That's relatable to what i observed. I stammer when i am not confident. I think stammering has became new normal for us and have to work on it to make it normal for us speak normally....

Emotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Anxiety & Social JudgmentIdentity & Self-Perception
postr/StutterJul 20, 2025
6 points

No confidence

No confidence All the time, my mind keeps thinking about the situations where I should have spoken up but couldn’t because of my stutter. Because of all these situations, I’m now always afraid I can’t...

Emotional ExperienceSocial & RelationshipsAnticipation & Avoidance
Anxiety & Social JudgmentLoneliness & IsolationHelplessness & Agency+1 more
commentr/StutterJul 20, 2025
4 points

Pastor's Kid here. Can't really be close with the youth group. Even in discussions I opt out and when I don't have a choice to speak it's a mental gymnastics just to say my few wordsm it's terrible, w...

Emotional ExperienceSchool & Work
Anxiety & Social JudgmentSchool & Academic Life
commentr/StutterJul 20, 2025
1 points

The more comfortable I am with people the more I stutter because I think less about what i am saying. So: at work with new people...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience
Hiding & ConcealmentAnxiety & Social Judgment
postr/StutterJul 19, 2025
4 points

I'm sick of struggling

I'm sick of struggling I'm honestly sick of struggling to say the words that I already know which makes people believe that I barely know the language and it kills my confidence. I can speak the langu...

Anticipation & AvoidanceSpeech & StutteringCauses & Variability
Feared Words & NamesBlocks & StoppagesStress & Fight/Flight+2 more
commentr/StutterJul 19, 2025
1 points

This post is coming out of a black, depressed mindset and doesn’t have much to do with stuttering per se. I mean of course stuttering can cause these feelings, but so can lots of other things, and it’...

Coping & AdvocacyEmotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Mindset shiftAnxiety & Social JudgmentIdentity & Self-Perception+1 more
commentr/StutterJul 19, 2025
2 points

I can’t also do phone calls because I am scared that I will stutter and that later I will feel the pain that’s why all the time I just text...

Emotional ExperienceSocial & Relationships
Anxiety & Social JudgmentDisclosure & Telling Others
commentr/StutterJul 19, 2025
3 points

Actually that’s what I think every time it feels like I am mistake or weak because I can’t do something as simple as a talking to someone else it’s so easy without my stutter it also makes me feel gui...

Emotional ExperienceSocial & Relationships
Shame & EmbarrassmentAnxiety & Social JudgmentHelplessness & Agency+1 more
commentr/StutterJul 19, 2025
10 points

Funny enough I am autistic bi polar suicidal alcoholic and I stutter. I. Am 30 now and I never felt part of this world. And with all of my faults i know stuttering is the worst out of all of it. If i...

Emotional ExperienceIdentity & DisabilitySchool & Work
Shame & EmbarrassmentAnxiety & Social JudgmentIdentity & Self-Perception+1 more
commentr/StutterJul 19, 2025
1 points

It’s mostly gone unless he’s really excited/wound up or there’s a lot going on around him. It causes me insane anxiety, but I brought it up to his teacher last year, who didn’t seem to notice it stan...

Causes & VariabilityEmotional ExperienceParent & Caregiver
Stress & Fight/FlightAnxiety & Social JudgmentEarly Concern & Onset
commentr/StutterJul 19, 2025
2 points

Everyone’s experience with speech therapy is a little different because it really depends on what you and your therapist work on together. For many people who stutter, therapy helps them reduce tensio...

Therapy & ProfessionalEmotional Experience
Therapy ExperiencesPositive Therapy TechniquesAnxiety & Social Judgment
postr/StutterJul 18, 2025
2 points

i used to stutter badly in high school, just made a free guide on what helped me

i used to stutter badly in high school, just made a free guide on what helped me hey everyone, i’m not a speech therapist or some expert, i’m just a guy who used to stutter *badly* — especially in hi...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Avoidance & SubstitutionStress & Fight/FlightAnxiety & Social Judgment+2 more