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You absolutely haven't let your class down! You're human. I'm a teacher too (though not in a conventional academic setting), and know exactly how you feel. Sometimes the stammer rears up and there's...

I'm so over feeling unworthy and depressed of myself ...cause I stutter !!!

I'm so over feeling unworthy and depressed of myself ...cause I stutter !!! I'm so over feeling sorry for me. I am who I am (a stutterer - genetics for me), if people dont like me...well they can move...

Because they’ve taken the time to go to a speech therapist and practice the routines needed to lessen their stutter? When I was meeting with a speech therapist my stutter was almost nonexistent but on...

I’ve been stuttering for almost 13 years, while it’s common in childhood, stuttering into adulthood is almost always permanent from what I’ve been able to research a few years back. Confidence doesn’t...

How do I stop

How do I stop Im confident but the words just don’t come out. Every time a stutter my parents yell at me so I would like to stop...

I think the people who are responding mean well, but there's a lot of misleading information here. I also started stuttering later than typical (about age 18 in my case), and from what I've learned, w...

Most stutterers I know started at some point in their life or show the symptoms very rarely. Only on rare occassions do I meet people in person who stutter heavily since birth, and as far as I know Tr...

My father singlehandedly worsened my stutter. Its pretty mild. But when i started(around 15) the constant:JUST FUKN SPEAK, HOLY HELL BREATHE FOR FUKS SAKE.... Destroys you. There are stuttering suppor...

I think it does kind if help shape who we are, but it’s also dependent on out environments. For example, I was raised in a household that always felt sad whenever I stuttered and my extended family of...

Well, just imagine what a relief it'll be after you go there and get the job. I am a stutterer myself and when I do presentations in uni, I kinda just live till that moment when I have to present. I f...

Is stuttering more prevalent among men than women?

Is stuttering more prevalent among men than women? I've never seen a woman that stutters, in real life or on TV. I'm wondering if its a sex thing....

Nature or nurture. There is no real science to prove or disprove it either way. Some stutters are developmental and could be a result of learned behaviours and a cycle of anxiety. Others are linked t...

Everyone in my family did... so did my Dad. In my case it's definitely a strong case for being genetically linked....

Question: Should I consider myself a stutterer

Question: Should I consider myself a stutterer So I have dyslexia and because of that, I have a bit of a stutter. A lot of times when speaking I'll stammer over words. I oftentimes have trouble gettin...

Well stuttering runs in my family. But I have a permanent one though....

I have never heard of the theory of regarding lack of genetic diversity CAUSING stuttering. Some stuttering IS genetic so if you have a family who is...um....very close, then OBVIOUSLY that stutteri...

Stutter linked to genetic family background?

Stutter linked to genetic family background? Recently I’ve been doing reading on the neurological and genetic causes of stuttering, and stumbled across something regarding the lack of genetic diversit...

Me (23 y.o). My parents say that I have had this since I was three but this totally corresponds to my earliest recollection. So, I don't remember a time when I don't stutter. It is also genetic in my...

My dad stutters and my sister has a very very mild stutter. My other sister has nothing....

Mine appeared at about 3 when I was beginning to form proper sentences, so I guess all my life. My dad has had a stutter since he was a child too. I've always wondered if I picked it up from him just ...