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Thanks for the uplifting post. I think being social is a really good strategy in gaining confidence in your speaking. I've dealt with social anxiety for much of my life, and I think my stutter has rea...

I love going to karaoke with new friends that know I stutter but haven't heard me sing. They just look at me after a song like "How in the...?" I rap really fast and articulate too. Singing is very fr...

Caught me off guard. First time since grade school someone has specifically said anything about it at all....

I don't acknowledge the joke. I simply say, "no, I stutter." Lots of times they feel bad about it. It's not my intent to make them feel bad, but it's just the facts. ...

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I can't say my own name sometimes

I can't say my own name sometimes My last name starts with a "B" which can be difficult for me (along with other hard contact letters/sounds) when I'm nervous...which usually only happens around stran...

This is how I stutter aswell, more or less. It's pretty spot on. The initiating conversations and asking questions is a killer for me. I just can't make it happen, or I could, but then it would be obv...

"But when I sing, it's the only instance where I'm truly fluent."

"But when I sing, it's the only instance where I'm truly fluent." Megan Washington talks about how her stutter helped her become the artist she is today. [Link here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9...

good point, accepting that it is okay that you stutter is very hard for most stutterers including me...

I collect words or short phrases that are least likely to trigger stuttering and lean on them to get me started. "So" is a good one to drop in front of question words: "So, how.." or "So, why...". The...

I am a stutterer and this is my story

I am a stutterer and this is my story Hello everyone. First of all, excuse me if you see any grammar mistakes, since English is not my first language. I'll do my best. I have been a stutterer since I...

I don't stutter mid-sentence but often cannot start a word, usually at the beginning of a sentence. Anyone else with this problem?

I don't stutter mid-sentence but often cannot start a word, usually at the beginning of a sentence. Anyone else with this problem? I used to have a typical stutter when I was younger, but that went aw...

Congratulations to you shrc91! Very inspirational and motivational. I find stuttering to be so damn mysterious. I could probably stand to learn more about it. I'm almost 32 years old and my stutter ha...

I have trouble with S's so being sixteen then seventeen was awful ...

" Having a stutter is pretty shit, but it has made me who I am as a person and honestly I feel the experiences I've had have made me a hugely better and more rounded person than without it. " It took...

Happy birthday! The only ages I've struggled with so far are 8 and 18... Living in my 80s is going to be fun :-)...

Nice! I've been 28 for 2 years now. I couldn't say 27 ha!...

lol i just turned 19 ...

Hahaha I studied in Germany over the summer 2 years ago. In duisburg. And I'm so happy to be in my twenties and not n n n n n nineteen. ...

Das ist sehr gut! My German has been lapsing since high school though. ...