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Thanks I appreciate that. Yeah its best not to care what people think and surround yourself with decent people who don't make life more difficult for you. Good job working as a museum guide, wow that'...

Lately my stutter has been so bad I don't really even initiate conversation

Lately my stutter has been so bad I don't really even initiate conversation This is completely an issue of how I personally feel about my stutter. I shouldn't feel so defeated. But when there are a lo...

It might not be any consolation, but I've had a similar experience. I worked in a call center in my early 20's for about a year and a half. At first when I was making sales, I was able to speak very f...

My severely embarrassing moment

My severely embarrassing moment I've worked in a call centre as a stutterer for 2 months now. Vocally, I've been fine. Smashing out KPIs, bonding with callers, rarely blocking and never stuttered. Tod...

I'm not telling *you* not to do it, I'm explaining why I really don't want to. There is a difference between "not hiding" and "searching for ways to make the problem worse". To me, this idea sounds *m...

Interesting. I find it more annoying when a friend finishes my sentences for me. A) People who don't know me are trying to be helpful ... even though they're not always being helpful. B) my friends kn...

i dont mind if A) its a close friend AND B) they get it right. in ALL other circumstances it is more distracting/insulting than helpful....

but we can't just hide from everything that exacerbates it, can we? That sounds as crappy as stuttering....

it's most frustrating to me when they guess the wrong word. I simply say, "no" then go back to stuttering, lol...

I do understand that. I just foresee this making us stutter worse. I stutter worse when around other stutterers, and I think that's pretty common. To me, this isn't about facing it as much as avoiding...

>Sometimes, having someone finish a sentence is a huge relief. They took the pressure off and now I'm able to move on to the next topic of conversation. >But most of the time, I want to make th...

My personal opinion is that I absolutely hate the idea, no offense. I hate my stuttering. I have noticed that my stuttering not only gets noticed by other people, but makes them stutter a bit as well....

Haha yeah I feel that. Obviously I would prefer to not stutter, but it is kind of nice having a filter that keeps me from saying the first thing that comes to my head at all times. I wouldn't want to ...

Oh gosh, I just saw I forgot to reply to your questions. Sorry about that! Grad school got in the way. Anyway, I don't mind answering your questions publicly. 1.) I think the origin of my anxiety is...

Do you *have* to use the phone for interviews? I definitely prefer emails and face-to-face myself, because it's easier for me to handle those two situations. So I try as much as I can to set up the c...

Started this book last week and just by gradually accepting my stutter and talking slower, I already can feel some progress. My biggest fear, as the same of others, is the telephone. If my life depend...

There were so many little steps I had to do. Because stuttering is different in every person, you have to experiment what works best for you. My previous experiences with SLPs were pretty bad. There...

You don't have to do anything. "Should" is still fear-based thinking. Do you want to? I really struggled with practicing at home (I usually didn't) because everything seemed stupid and/or embarrassing...

the calling strangers method is what I did with my speech therapist, he told me I had to practice it at home too, but I never did because I was too scared. I should go and practice more again...

I also tend to not stutter at all when explaining that I stutter. Kind of weird....