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I have also found that letting people know has been helping me relieve some pressure of “trying” to hide it, but it has been something that I didn’t talk about in the past. I’m 26...
I find I am only comfortable talking about it in times of unusually good fluency. I find in those times that I volunteer the information a lot for some reason. Maybe because I know that a bad day is c...
My stutter is so obvious I pretty much have to mention it if I'm going to be trying to say anything extensive to anyone who isn't just a passing stranger. Otherwise between the blocks and weird faces ...
I'm comfortable talking about it but there are far more interesting things to talk about. I rarely bring it up and of course nobody else ever does either....
I'm 38 and this is my first job where I speak about it openly. My boss wanted me to speak in a call so I told him that I find that particularly hard because of my speech impediment. It's kind of a r...
How many of you are comfortable with talking about your stutter with friends/family?
How many of you are comfortable with talking about your stutter with friends/family? I have always been embarrassed about talking about my stutter with others in my life. I just recently tried to star...
I’m thankful that my stutter has never gotten in the way of my romantic life. I’m also lesbian, so I wonder if that has anything to do with it? when I meet women I’m interested in, they could often ca...
You are sooooo close to getting it! If you switch your goal from “making them feel super bad about something they are clueless about” to realizing “oh my god, disclosing is THE thing that makes me fl...
There's a covert stutterer in the my male count. I applied for a joband he called me to set up an interview and i heard easy onsets/light articulation and thought, hmm, this sounds familiar. When I as...
Yep! I have trouble with most names that start with a vowel. I’ve had some success with always using a lead in like “my name is ____” or “you can put ____” or even “I’m ____”. Sometimes when orderi...
Hi Benny, This is super common. Your name is tough because you only use it when you’re meeting someone new, and that’s a challenging situation for people who stutter. You’re worried what they’ll think...
Disclosing is the answer, but watch out how it's framed. The way I used to disclose my stutter to employors was to tack on a "but I'm working on it" on the end. This implies that after enough easy ons...
The worst experience I’ve had with my stutter was my required public speaking class in college, and I really wish I had disclosed it with my class during the “what’s one thing you are nervous about wi...
You won't believe this right now, but disclosing IS the most effective way to BECOME a more fluent speaker. I've had a bunch of job interviews over the last year for being a lead preschool teacher (...
Generally, disclosing your stutter is empowering because you take ownership of it instead of feeling ashamed of it. BUT, framing it as a “weakness” is still letting it win. Like any job interview qu...
No! Because it's not a weakness. List it as a strength!!! Disclosing is great! Takes the pressure off you, which can reduce the severity of your stutter. Let's the interviewers know what's going if/...
No, I wouldn’t do that. Instead I would start the interview by disclosing my stutter to the interviewer. This takes off a lot of pressure of your shoulders and, if you do end up stuttering, have estab...
Tom, about a year ago, I was in a group-style hospital recovery room and my nurse had forgotten to give me the call button. So, after I woke up, I lay behind the curtain for god knows how long, unabl...
>just explain to someone right away that I have a speech impediment this is what I also do. If I hide my condition to someone, my blocks will eventually lead to some misunderstanding that will cos...
The way to solve that is to disclose in some way (directly or by doing controlled, voluntary stuttering). As a bonus, disclosing is the thing that makes most blocks disappear. True story....