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You're right. I definitely should've visited a doctor as soon as it started happening. But I didn't know back then that it would turn out to be this big. It was mostly "ummms.." and "ahhhs..." and so...

I'm the same. Word substitution has been my ticket to apparent "fluent" speech. But sadly it doesn't work on direct questions like "What's your name?" or "Where do you live?"...

Me too...it became a little bit of a problem in high school where I would say a bunch of weird shit because it was easier for me...and yeah curse words have the same effect. It's crazy that with my pa...

I think I'm in the same boat as you. Word substitution has just become normal now to the point where I don't even really notice it. I sometimes think I come off like I'm trying too hard to use big w...

It's nothing to do with this subreddit, but expanding my vocabulary helped me a lot. I'm a covert stutterer, where I get silent blocks a lot. Nobody aside from my parents know I stutter, and even they...

I do pause sometimes before saying a word I am going to stutter on, and I repeat it over and over in my head and when I'm confident I can say it without stuttering I say it, and it comes out just fine...

This is interesting. On the certain words which I think I will stutter on, I am definitely pronouncing them differently. Either it feels as though I am choking on the word rather than letting if flow ...

So your post is interesting -- Dean Williams, one of the early speech pathologists interested in stuttering, said that stuttering is what you do when you are interfering with your normal speech. This...

I do this by saying "ello" instead of "Hello" when I answer the phone. H's aren't usually a big problem for me, just when I answer the phone....

I find that the word or phrase that I say prior to a specific problematic word or phrase has a lot to do with whether or not I stumble. Stutters seem to be very idiosyncratic, though for me it's both ...

Stuttering Anxiety

Stuttering Anxiety Hi all, I have this idea in my head that I cannot pronounce certain words without stuttering and I don’t know what to do about it. My surname just happens to be one of those words....

I don't know if my stutter is considered severe, but I stutter at least once per sentence. It does suck. I usually prefix words to avoid stuttering. For some reason it's gotten worse over the years....

I've experimented with different tactics ranging from addressing it at the start to trying to pretend it's not happening. I've found it greatly depends on the interviewer which tactic is best, and it'...

Discrimination?

Discrimination? I finished school back in December, 2013. I have been looking for a job since. I've filled out somewhere between 250 and 300 applications and have had over 40 interviews across about 2...

Yup, I've planned this in the last post, didn't get much of a reply, so I guess it's something I'll do now! :D...

Ah I always despised reading out loud especially waiting for your turn, good job dude :) I just got a job on the spot to host at a upscale restaurant, surprising didn't stutter at all on the intervie...

Jobs for people who stutter?

Jobs for people who stutter? I've gone to many different types of interviews and they always end the same. "You're not suitable for the job." Whenever I get denied a job, it seems my fluency during th...

Tried it a while ago and it hasn't worked yet. For me, if I didn't put myself in talking situations extremely often I would go back to my original state. Did a job interview at Target a few days ago a...

Thanks for the advice man. Yeah I'm going for it again this fall. I'm thinking about telling them that I have a mild stutter beforehand. We'll see how it goes. I wont certainly be backing down though ...

Yeah. I believe so. I do those things too! I thought I was the only one. I'll pick and choose what words to use. Like before calling someone or ordering something. I avoid words that I know I can't sa...