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Does your manager(s) know about your stutter? I mean it sucks, but some tasks just aren't suited for stutterers, like answering phones or speaking over a microphone. Blocks can be very transient. What...

Stuttering effecting my work!

Stuttering effecting my work! Iv'e been working at Arby's for a year now and was about to start a shift leader position but then i started getting really bad "stutter blocks". I completely can't do d...

Thanks for both of your comments. I guess acceptance has to happen on several levels; let's say, we can accept that there is little we can do but embrace ourselves with our broken speech, and thus n...

I know exactly what you mean. It kind of is a defeatist attitude in the sense that you still have a stutter. I have not given up on my stutter, I've tried thinking about it in a different way which ...

Great article, great writing. I'm pretty torn about stuttering. On the one hand I can rationally see the value of acceptance. Of not ploughing so much energy into something that many believe has a ne...

Ok this thread seems like a good place to share my thoughts on Xanax and stuttering. I am fairly new to Xanax but not new to stuttering. Brief background on my stuttering: I'm a 30 yr old, male,...

This was a good read. I'm almost 32 and I still stutter, sometimes pretty badly. I've 'accepted it' as far as I know it's a part of me that won't ever go away. But I don't think I'm quite as far al...

>The one thing I refuse to identify myself as is someone who stutters. Not because stuttering is bad, but because it’s just a character trait, much like a big nose or my basketball-sized noggin. I...

I stutter and will continue to stutter. It's not about if it will happen, but rather, how I will deal with it when it does. I can sit back and resent myself for speaking and those around me who get me...

He taught me a lot of self assurance about stuttering and that it was what I made of it. Example I used to this people made fun of me behind my back because I stuttered. I imagined my class mates maki...

Start small and build up. that's how you go from calling a Jimmy Johns to making a call at work. slow but steady progress. And don't worry about the other person's time. it's their job to take calls a...

Thanks so much for the advice! I have thought about calling up random shops in the past but never went through with it because I thought I'd just be wasting someone's time with me fumbling over my wor...

This is the real answer. As you said, there comes a time where you have to take the hurdle and there is no way around. There is only one way to get better at making phone calls: Get used to it. Doing ...

You should sit down with someone and have them ask you questions. Then you can practice answers in a more comfortable environment. You can hear what you might stutter on and adjust accordingly for the...

If you have not already sent it, in your thank you note (which you should always send for every interview) in addition to the usual reiteration of your interest in the position and the highlights of y...

Interviewing

Interviewing I'm currently waiting to hear back from about an interview I did for a dream job and I only have self doubt because of the amount I stuttered during the interview. I knew it was going to ...

I think most of us have problems on the phone. I think th toughest part for a lot of us is letting people hear us stutter on the phone (calling at work, conference calls, etc...). As I see it the only...

Conquering the beast...

Conquering the beast... And by *beast*, I mean the telephone. I don't necessarily have an incapacitating stutter when talking to a person face-to-face. Yes, I do stutter and block rather frequently, b...

might "coping mechanism" be another word for "solution"? At some level every treatment (including pharmacological) is a coping mechanism. We change something about our situation to make our situation ...

What would be different with meditation? I meditated regularly and it surely made me less stressed overall, but that is a different way of running away from a problem. I think attacking the problem at...