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Don't hold yourself back

Don't hold yourself back I recently built up the courage to attend a career fair at my college. I had been debating whether or not I should go for a while. However, I realized that I have to do things...

hm, i guess i sense a certain "success story", and that all those who aren't succeeding don't deserve mentioning. it's just that i don't see how "work ethic" will necessarily bring about a better spe...

Yeah, I just couldn't handle the pressure you know but eventually I had to talk, and this time it was in the middle of class, math class, couldn't finish a word without stuttering at every syllable. ...

Sure am....

You make a good point about how I never explained what confidence was and how it would help if I explained how I think confidence would help the person who stutters. I was more going for the person w...

I'm sure you know this already, but avoid avoidance! ...

i get what you're saying. but it's like... i don't think "confidence" is even all that relevant to stuttering. sure, confidence issues might be correlated with stuttering, but it's by no means unique ...

Hi nukefudge, I definitely get where you're coming from. And I don't want to say that what I see or experience is the same as others. The first thing I want to point out is that the piece is about wha...

i actually don't get the comparison between "chaotic music" and stutter at all. the elements of the analogy seem to be on rather different levels. the confidence thing seems to bring the two a bit cl...

thanks for sharing! A fellow pakistani stutterer. I'm assuming your male since you didn't state it. ...

Well, it went better than I thought...Unfortunately I avoided situations where I had to talk so I didn't push myself to the point where my stutter shows most, partially that's why it was a good day th...

I'm American-born to Pakistani parents. I've heard that there might be others on my dad's side who stutter. I can mostly understand Urdu, and speak some here and there. I didn't learn more because of ...

It's true!!...

I stutter worst around my parents for some reason. I made a completely new group of friends and I never stuttered around them. Until I got drunk, then it was bad. I also stutter when hungover, like my...

keep going, i believe in you! Sometimes, i just give up all techniques and just....let my words flow. It works sometimes and sometimes it doesn't. ...

Hell, my dad was this guy's vice principal. ...

such a freaking small world: Today I learned [/u/frozen-creek](http://www.reddit.com/user/frozen-creek) and I grew up in the same town....

Thank you so much! It means a lot. Is there anything you didn't like or that rubbed you the wrong way?...

How did day 1 go? give us an update!...

Good post, thanks for sharing. The lessons are relevant....