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I think talking out loud is good for your thoughts, but yeah I’m almost completely fluent and its like I’m getting interviewed from a movie premiere. I feel like if I was that fluent all the time i ca...

Yes, I just like to hear myself talk fluently for a bit. I am so much more well spoken and have a more clear sense of my own personality when I’m not around others. I think most can relate....

I understand why you interpret it that way, but that wasn’t my intention. I was just trying to point out how people in these two marginalized groups (stutterers and African-Americans) tend to feel tha...

I’d say he kind of fits into both the more negative camps I mentioned. He fits into the celebs who have overcome their stutter camp that I mentioned because he typically speaks fluently, and when he s...

That is completely wrong. I know women who are attracted to men horribly scarred by fire, as well as men who are unkempt or in trouble with the law or are massive nerds. The delusion is thinking wome...

Not sure why you should proceed to insults straight away, considering the fact that you do not know my relationship status or who I am in general. It is obvious that people do not just fall in love wi...

Same… honestly I had so many girls tell me after high school they liked me but thought I wasn’t interested because I never talked to them. In hindsight, senior year I asked a girl to homecoming dance...

Just be yourself. I’ve found my stutter is a “bitch repellent,” and it made dating FAR easier when they weed themselves out upfront rather than me having to figure it out months later. When I introduc...

As bad as this sounds, I feel like the better you are in some areas, the easier it is to counteract. The problem I find with stuttering is not the dating phase, but women typically want you to get rid...

I'm 27 and also have a severe stutter. I used to be where OP is, now I'm slowly getting closer to where you are. OP, what he's telling you is true. You just have to embrace it. When I was your age, ...

I cannot hide my stutter. When I did not disclose, the interview went south very quickly. When I did disclose, they stated that they admired my courage and integrity. Now more importantly, I...

Hey! Sorry for my late reply. Yes, everything you noted is exactly what I do and think, regarding helpful and uhelpful behaviours. It's interesting how most of us experience similar things like t...

You are focusing on the blocks and how stuttering is bad. Originally, I talked about "acceptance of fear and negative emotions". You turned it into "acceptance of stuttering". In my last post I aske...

I don’t really know how severe your stutter is, or how others around you usually react to it, so what I’m about to say may be unhelpful/inaccurate, but I think that you have to really make the distinc...

Like others have said, both are kinda inseparably linked, but if I had to go with one, I'd say confidence. My dad also stutters but he's way more social than me, even though he's not much more fluent,...

Thank you for your response. I really appreciate the perspective. You’re right, I think the acceptance of a lack of fluency will help me. My sibling said (after I asked for input) the other day that t...

Ok, this is absolutely new thing to me and might be a temporary placebo or just a good part of the stuttering time cycle, but I still want to share this. Try implementing this, I feel like it helps me...

This actually happened to me! Tl;dr: I vowed to kill myself if my impediment ever came back. Reneged due it returning only because alternative would've actually killed me. Story time! I took a tu...

>Both these things I can relate to very much. I always feel like I KNOW when I will stutter and when I won't. If I read your post correctly, do you also agree with this approach? Great reply. You ...

Totally. I don't know how much of my social anxiety was fueled by my stutter. But I certainly have more than enough anxiety without it. So, yeah, I don’t think anything would change....