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Thanks for the encouraging words :) However I do get the feeling that you think speech therapy is expensive and that the return on investment isn't good. I live in a third world country and it isn't ...

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I stutter and I was a ski instructor this past winter, if that counts. To be honest, it did give me some problems, but I loved what I was doing more than I hated stuttering, so it was a good trade of...

I'm talking for 8 hours a day - that's a lot of physical and emotional effort for normal people. Add on the fact that I'm working harder to talk, and that's the drain....

Teaching is pretty damn exhausting overall. Don't blame you. May I ask in what way is your stutter exhausting? It seems like you deal with it extremely effectively in the classroom....

Yeah dude, hearing "oh but you barely stutter" sometimes makes me feel SO ANGRY because they have NO idea how much effort it took NOT to stutter! I look at it this way now though: it's the same as t...

I'm a public high school teacher with 15ish years experience. Every year, the first two things out of my mouth are my name and the fact that I stutter. I then spend about 10 minutes talking about it, ...

My mother tongue is Hindi. I am from India so I guess my english is not that bad :) And I feel I should apologize for generalizing things a bit in my earlier comment. The most enigmatic thing about s...

If English isn't your mother tongue, what is?! holy hell haha I was definitely REALLY emo about my stutter for a long time - I was bullied pretty bad on and off until 8th grade, and teachers would so...

I'll add my own story (which is why I posted - never met another one, and I'm curious!). My first gig was plain old ESL in China. I had 50 students and all of them were older than me and doctors, so ...

I recently went back to my meet my college friends ( some are still in college :D) and talked quite a lot there. Earlier I usually talked the most with 4-5 people but this time I made it a point to ta...

My uncle has a moderate-to-severe stutter and he is a college professor. I've never been in his classes though, so I have no idea what that's like, but he must be ok if he manages to make a living fro...

Share your personal speaking victories!

Share your personal speaking victories! For example: * I made a new friend by approaching them first! * I speak a foreign language! * I spoke in front of a studio audience on TV! * I am a teacher! ....

I agree, sometimes accommodations are necessary to level the playing field and I think in that case it's ok. Thanks for sharing....

I don't know about you but I always used to think that I was very different from others and that my stuttering hinders me from living fully. Like it was a burden on my shoulders that I have to carry w...

I think what you mean by embracing and what my friends/family mean by ignoring are pretty similar - like a mute acceptance but not dwelling on it at all. Basically, they think that recognition for cha...

Well, I have stuttered all my life ( I'm 24) but lately I have learned that embracing and accepting my stutter is really the only way it would let go of me. I guess, when we accept it and proudly embr...

I haven't read it, but I'm always interested by people who have their stutter become their life (even for a while). I suppose it's similar to someone with a sick relative or a rare disease who then be...

This is probably irrelevant in this day and age, but about 10 years ago in high school foreign language class we had these awful oral quizzes where the teacher had recorded questions on a tape, leavin...

A very good book based on a woman's experiences with stuttering

A very good book based on a woman's experiences with stuttering I just started reading it. It's called Out with it : How stuttering helped find my voice. I recommend others to read it as well. [Here i...