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That’s the true answer. I’m 30 now. I’ve been in the army, both active and reserve. Been a correctional officer. Been a surveillance supervisor at a casino. Now have a family and a biomedical at a ho...

What's the next step?

What's the next step? I (21M) have stuttered all my life. I mostly had a hard time making friends and talking to people until I was about 18. I do have friends and a social life, I'm not that afraid t...

20 going on 21 here so similar in age. i have always had a stutter since i could speak. it’s noticeable but fortunately it was never something i considered debilitating. i’ve been able to live a mos...

When you get older you just stop giving a fuck. I work in retail and I will stutter my way through with dealing with customers. I don't care about the looks they give me....

I believe being a "successful stutter" is someone willing to embrace the challenges and hardship that comes with it. Not everyday is going to be better than the last and that's okay. It's about doing ...

I treat myself the way my mind feels most comfortable. I don’t put myself in situations where I’m going to stutter a lot or be of any inconvenience to anyone. I work/look for work where I can work m...

I don't care I have a stutter and I just get on with it....

You are so right about brain chemistry. We are different from fluent individuals. I also believe that external factors can potentiate stuttering such as adverse childhood experiences, (abuse) adult tr...

Loved the approach that effective communication is when we say what we want to say and not dependent on the fluency. I am still in that phase where I get stuck to a lot of words, mostly words which ar...

What do you talking is? It's an articulation exercises.   You improve as you speak because you are exercising the speech apparatus while simultaneously relaxing as your anxiety subsides.   Stuttering ...

That’s awesome that this works for you! Feeling comfortable speaking to people is always the goal and it will surely serve you will in life. Everyone’s stutter is different and thjs won’t work for ev...

Absolutely, f*** speech therapy. I’ve never had a good experience in speech therapy, I’ve only ever felt humiliated and disappointed. Maybe there are good speech therapists out there, I don’t know, bu...

I was watching fluency techniques by different speech therapist, they all are saying in the end "you will still stutter" like a disclaimer. There are stutterers who will get panic attacks when someone...

Doing a presentation and having a stutter is quite challenging especially when it's the time when it's the worst, I recommend making a script and try Saying it out loud in your room or anywhere you wa...

Him doing this also totally tracks. Back then, he was much more comfortable with his stutter than I was. I'm talking like leaps and bounds more comfortable. lol and still is seeing as he's doing this....

One of the players on the new season of Survivor openly stutters. He was basically the first person to talk on the show, and discussed it right away in front of the group. It was a truly empowering moment!

One of the players on the new season of Survivor openly stutters. He was basically the first person to talk on the show, and discussed it right away in front of the group. It was a truly empowering mo...

I'll try to explain. This is my experience and may not hold for you. Let's say you want to order a hamburger with lettuce and tomato. And the whole time waiting to order, you are worried about sayin...

Charge nurse here and totally understand how you’re feeling, I’m the same in that my stutter isn’t severe but is noticeable at times throughout the day. It’s weirdly a gift to openly stutter (and open...

stuttering is not your fault!

stuttering is not your fault! This post is for anyone who needs some stutter-positive affirmations…. (If you’re not in a space for stutter-positive content, that’s totally fine! You don’t have to be!)...

Definitely agree. Remember to stutter your heart out. If they want to judge you negatively that's their choice. Your primary goal is to not judge yourself negatively....