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I'll give some personal experience that's helped me a lot, in hopes you find some of the tips useful. I also stutter, am 22 years old, and I primarily block. I experience some prolongations on initia...

Thanks for your comment. My daughter loves me (she tells me often!), I just don't want to show her up in-front of her friends. 95%+ of the time, I don't stutter when I'm talking to my children - I'm n...

The only reason for therapy is to help you feel more comfortable with your day to day life. To be happy! You're an adult, and you're lucky enough to be able to ask for help when you need it, and more ...

You shouldn't bring yourself down like that, you don't deserve it if someone says something about it just say yes i stutter and continue on. Most people don't care that you stutter. if they do then do...

Jjjjjjust a rant.

Jjjjjjust a rant. Everyone I talk to knows I stutter, it's clearly obvious, but I never mention it. Ever. Not to my family, random people I talk to on the phone, anyone. If someone mentions it, I chan...

Thanks. And it's amazing that you accomplished that. I don't really care about being "fluent" anymore; I realized that what I really wanted is to not feel miserable every time I verbalize something, e...

From what I've experienced, things like this are really just learned behaviors to escape the stutter. You at one point rolled your eyes back and got through a stutter at the same time, so you associat...

Anticipatory struggle is a bitch. Worrying about stuttering will only make it worse. I've been teaching myself over time to, as soon as I reach a block or stutter, immediately stop thinking about that...

Wow, awesome post. I'm definitely going to read those books. Not letting my stutter limit myself is something it took me a long time to realize and implement into my life, and now that I have, I'm so ...

When you speak before the class in poetry readings etc. you should announce your stutter beforehand. Any time I have to give a speech I do it and it makes everyone much more comfortable/understanding ...

I'm 22 and have been stuttering all my life as well, and have experienced nearly everything you mentioned. My father had anger management issues when I was a kid and life was pretty stressful at times...

You are going to become a teacher? That IS pretty confident I say. I also wanted to become a teacher, but I was to afraid. Big props to you. *Edit: a letter*...

Don't panic. Don't lose hope. You are not alone. First, you should read two books, by two people who have recovered from stuttering following not very different paths. The first is [Redefining Stutt...

I am in a similar boat as you. I'm 21, and a senior in college. Sometimes my stutter can be controlled, but other times it gets the best of me. When one of my professors asked me a question in class t...

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I am a speech pathologist, and I encourage you to go see one, this time look for what experience/ approach the slp has with fluency. I find that fluency is an area many slp's are not comfortable or c...

I deal with this same issue, albeit on a smaller scale. I need to take my own advice, but you just have to say fuck it, and try not to worry what anyone else thinks of you. You should see a therapist ...

So much feels.... Especcialy the part of anticpating in sound, rather than thought. It's so rooted in our brains. I've found a video (from this sub) that explains it IMO spot-on: http://www.youtube.co...

Addressing your last paragraph, especially when you say "I'm wasting their time." That's entirely not true. There are those VERY few people that don't understand what stuttering means and think it's s...

Rant: I'm 24 and I don't know what to do

Rant: I'm 24 and I don't know what to do I've been stuttering since I was in first grade. Following an embarrassing and pathetic "Talent Show" We were forced to take part in, I had the joy of being pa...