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Thanks for the advice, I may open with telling the room that I have a stutter. Might as well get it out there. ...

Thanks! I was worried at first too, but for some reason my stutter was gone in the Army. I can't explain and am baffled to this day. How can something that has afflicted me my whole life just vanish? ...

Practice, practice, practice. Write down your talking points. Say the speech in your head as you continue to write down your talking points. Then practice in front of a mirror. Then practice in front ...

I know how you feel man, have 4 presentations next week because I postponed them all. Not for my graduation though. Anyway, being terrified all week wont help, I know that you cannot just shut that of...

This is a bit of an unrelated comment, but it is really cool that you served in the military as a stutterer. I was always tempted to enlist in the Navy, but I was really fearful that having a stutter ...

Oh man. I really hated reading in class... I think it was probably the worst experiences I've had as a child. Something that helped me personally was either reading the material beforehand and practi...

I cannot second the Vivian Sisskin series on Stuttertalk enough! It was instrumental in changing how I was viewing my therapy and I've shown much more improvement since (in both self-acceptance and, ...

Great post, I agree with everything! And no one is 100% fluent, not even non-stutterers....

Have a class presentation next week

Have a class presentation next week And the anxiety is almost crippling. A little backstory, I've been stuttering since about first grade. When I joined the military at 19, my stutter completely vanis...

Thanks so much for this! I'll try and get this mindset for my oral presentations as well!...

Putting myself in the right frame of mind usually helps me. Im sure youre like many others, counting down the students to see which paragraph you'll be reading and scanning through it for words you ma...

How to not be nervous for reading in class?

How to not be nervous for reading in class? We are reading Hamlet tomorrow and we will have to read out loud in class...how do I stay calm and not stress too much?...

Great story! Thank you for sharing....

Nice to read how you have grown! Good job! ...

My story

My story Found this thread and pretty happy to see a whole community of people that can understand and relate to the things we go through daily. I've had a stutter since I was little. I was always a ...

I just noticed your username now. Are you a pokemon fan? ...

Some progress... some tips

Some progress... some tips Hi guys! So for a long time I denied my stutter but my dad stutters and it's genetic. Looking back, it has DRAMATICALLY impacted my life. Recently, I realized two things t...

Thanks I found your reply very helpful. Going through this reddit more has really showed me a different way to think about stuttering. I'm 22 and started speech therapy a few months ago and up until n...

I'm a university student and have had a few professors who stuttered during lectures. I didn't really mind as long as they knew what they were talking about. If anything, I kind of liked it because it...

If he's gone to therapy he's likely seen these techniques already. And if this is the case, speech therapy may not be something he wants to talk about.That being said, you probably know him better tha...