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My story According to my mom I started stuttering after a trauma. I was around three years old and was playing with pearls. Somehow a pearl got stuck in my nose and we went to the hospital to take it ...

Advice needed..........I cant move forward in my social life and my stuttering is holding me back

Advice needed..........I cant move forward in my social life and my stuttering is holding me back Ive posted here before and im just depressed af right now. 19m and my life is pretty average compared...

A lot of good advice here but this is the most important: DO NOT PRE READ YOUR LINES!!! Oh my god this was the reason I stuttered so much when reading in class! Just try not to think about it. Hones...

That's great to hear! I have(had in a sense) a very severe stutter. The McGuire Programme was my last chance. I had tried everything before. I was similar to you, I had a bit of a relapse after my se...

Apart from Hausdorfer I did all the intensive therapies, including McGuire. McGuire gave me the best results. I had complete control over my speech for nearly three months after my first course. Then ...

You said you've tried everything, have you looked into intensive therapy? (ie. The McGuire Programme)?...

Girl vlogs about covert stuttering

Girl vlogs about covert stuttering ...

Haha, It didn't ;) How I learned to accept it? Don't know... sound strange?!?! Also for me. When I was around my 40s all what people sad through my whole life I began to believe. That I don't have t...

I thought my nickname would give it away. ;) How did you manage to accept it ?...

You're from the Netherlands, haha, me too :) But it is hard to accept it... took me over 40 years.... And though it frustrates me sometimes! ...

Apart from Hausdorfer, I've tried every single speech therapy available in The Netherlands the past 25 years. None of that had a lasting improvement on my speech. Now I'm trying the acceptance route,...

It IS very hard. And I don't have a severe stutter, so I think that's easier. But maybe speech therapy? And try to take small steps. Trying to be yourself, with your stutter, with people who you feel...

That's the hard part about my severe stutter. It feels like I can't show the real self to other people, because my stutter acts as a wall. My real self is a talkative, assertive and extraverted person...

You definitely need to get some speech therapy. You need help - very hard to work on this by yourself....

It's like a disability that no one takes seriously. People who dont stutter can't comprehend not being in control of their own body....

When I was a kid I always stuttered the most around family, especially during the holidays. A few people are saying it's because we're comfortable with our parents/family but I've never really gotten ...

Try to be yourself, with a stutter. It is what it is. Easier say (lol) then done! Maybe go to a speech therapist who can help you? ...

Sharing the frustration.

Sharing the frustration. I haven't always had a stutter. It started at age 16, during the summer. I'm 28 now and it got worse over the past 10 years. Sometimes it was gone for months or years. But sin...

I dont stutter so much around friends, but i stutter very much to strangers and my father....

I don't stutter around my mother at all but it's the opposite with my father...