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Maybe you should pause and think for a moment before starting fights on a forum made to help people, Nukefudge. This is directly from Toastmaster's website: http://mediacenter.toastmasters.org/index...

hm, don't buy into the "introvert" label too much. it's become popular in recent years, but my worry is that people are digging the self-identification part of it a little too much. we might as well ...

I may have made myself sound a little more anti-social then I actually am. So my apologies! I am a social introvert. I like being around other people and doing group activities but it exhausts me to ...

i can align with most of that. not that our stutters are the same, but there's such a huge overlap in the experience of most stutterers, i think. \- i actually came to remember a school teacher of mi...

My grandmother who was a moderate stutter for her whole life swears by toastmasters. By the time I came around, she was mild. I stutter, I'm still terrified to go but I know I should. ...

Hi BadJimFred. Thank you so much for sharing your story. Even though you didn't get through it, that's totally okay and what you said was very nice already. I think I get what you mean by the atypi...

I'll be honest, I was not able to get through your article at the moment because I'm on vacation with family and chasing my 1 year old around. What I did read of it I liked though. It's very thoughtfu...

giving oral presentations is a skill regardless of whether one stutters or not. The best way to learn to manage stuttering while giving oral presentations is to give oral presentations. There is not...

alright. when a stutterer comes to a stuttering sub, why would you recommend things that are not geared for the specifics of stuttering? OP will not overcome stuttering by learning to give oral prese...

why would OP come to a *stuttering* sub and ask about general performance? also, OP does stutter. "toastmasters" still makes no sense....

but OP didn't ask about managing stuttering, but oral presentations. The public presentation of information through speech is a skill that requires cultivation (there are very few naturally gifted ora...

We were reading some play in class and my teacher gave me a heavy part because when I'm not stuttering I'm pretty good at reading aloud. One day I guess I was stressed and I just couldn't get through ...

anecdotal, innit. stuttering _specifically_ is not handled by "toastmasters". stuttering is not just a matter of "improving public speaking"....

Yeah I stutter, It has improved a lot over the years but a presentation just tears me apart completely. I'm 19 and pretty broke atm, therapists cost quite a bit too, I don't see this being an option f...

I really don't have a story, but that is amazing that happened and also really cool your professor even said something. I have a presentation coming up and I guess I'm just gonna do it and stutter a ...

Yeah, sometimes If you have easier words in front of the hard word then you can follow through with out any issues. It's a nice sigh of relief when it works :)...

my worst cases were all after i graduated college. It didn't bother the listeners that much. I guess they felt it was unfortunate i was having such a hard time. I felt like total shit though. There ar...

I must concur with my weaselish colleague. Advertise first thing and don't hide it. Own it. They care a lot less then you do. Trust us, go forth, and kick butt. ...

Damn, that must have been rough. Bad enough with oral reports, but the reading out loud by the rows must have been hell. ...

I just about froze up completely during a presentation in English. My friends knew what was up. They didn't give me a hard time about it and by tomorrow, it may as well have been forgotten. ...