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It depends on the job, person interviewing, etc. This topic comes up offer at my chapter meeting as well. Bring it up in the interview and use it to your advantage. Make it a positive quality. N...

I am for it. I don't really do it much but that's because i'm not comfortable with my stutter and myself enough to do it. It's primarily about taking control; owning your stutter. You disclose on your...

Stuttering & Self-disclosure: Opinions?

Stuttering & Self-disclosure: Opinions? Self-disclosure is to reveal to an audience that you stutter before starting a speech/interview. Many speech pathologists advise stutterers to disclose thei...

Some of the stutterers I personally know (I can count them with my fingers on just one hand) describe having periods when they have good days and bad days. I've felt it myself too. So in my personal o...

What you describe is not uncommon. Stuttering is a cyclical disorder for many people....

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Periodic stuttering

Periodic stuttering Hello guys, would like to know if any of u have these periods when u don't stutter at all. In spring i almost didn't stutter at all, but now my stutter is really bad. Do u guys hav...

I insert "fucking" into a lot of my speech because it helps me not stutter. I used to use "like," but realized that people don't like hearing "like" all the time. I did, however, that nobody cares whe...

I actually have no idea, man, but I have the exact same thing. I will stutter more around my friends and family, and appear almost fluent around strangers. I personally think it all boils down to the ...

Haha, sometimes my closest friends and my mom also forgets i stutter sometime, although i have a pretty heavy stutter. Dunno what to say though, try to not let it bother you, thats what i try to do....

Oh my, I know just how you feel. At university yesterday I had to chair a meeting and damn I was prepared, but I messed up a couple of times and holy shit does that feeling suck. But I seriously think...

[Vent] Interview

[Vent] Interview Currently looking for a new job, ironically in a field that has me talking, presenting, and communicating verbally a great deal. I've been a stutterer since I was a child, where I ...

disagree, a lot. ...

Also check to see if there is a speech therapy clinic on your campus! Usually students receive free therapy!!!...

Just another reason why this disorder is so difficult! All through school and grad school I was VERY dysfluent...even with clients. Once a graduated and started my real job my fluency improved treme...

Aside from the other conversation about anxiety, life changes can cause changes in "how" you stutter (frequency, severity, etc.). I'm an SLP who works with adults and a lot of people who contact me ar...

Upvote for your source. :) Sincerely, fellow SLP...

In my experience psychiatrists don't know the first thing about my speech disorder. I have been able to independently prove time and time again that mine at least (I block, for the record), is comple...

All psychiatrists I've been to has always told me stuttering has very little to do with anxiety and it's mostly biological. One of them recommended speech therapy and went to a speech therapist for ye...

It is unfortunate to hear that you do not think you can do anything about your stuttering. Speech therapy has research and evidence based strategies and techniques to treat fluency disorders such as ...