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Thank you, and yes i don't like how my life was always like, i want to change, i need to change. I understood that there are things you can't change, so don't bother yourself with them, focus on the t...

Lol. It can be, maybe not 'fixed', but anyone can get better at speaking. The thing is, people dont wanna sacrifice an hour a day, to do that. They all want an easy way out. Its the same with gaining ...

I feel you. 5 years back, I used to say the exact same things youre saying, and i used to come up with qll kinds of explanation on why i was struggling at work, why i had high anxiety, etc etc. Then ...

Have hope that like it being severe right now, it can change. I’m a 78f who has experienced stages of better fluency. Also, take advantage of every possible treatment. Don’t overlook self-treatment as...

If you show people that you don’t care about when you stutter, then they won’t see it as something weird and it’ll be okay. I constantly travel, party and meet random people as I’m a social person, an...

I met my boyfriend in High School. I was 17, now 21. I was masking at this point. I can no longer mask anymore, I completely exhausted myself over the years. Eventually, I told him about my stutter an...

Your English is fine. Your courage will be your greatest asset. Stuttering, like we do takes guts. Your education will go far in your life success regardless of stuttering. We stutterers can have happ...

It can surely take a very long time for acceptance and have the ability to stutter freely. Remember, a lot of us have ingrained behaviors due to stuttering for decades. It can take another decade, o...

That’s like saying you cannot really learn music, it needs to come organically. Well you’ll need to learn it first through repetition. That’s how our brain works. Just go to a coffee shop and talk to ...

First of all, CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!! You stepped out of your comfort zone and you did it. I've been in your shoes thousands of times. I learned from every failure and applied it to the next situat...

The way I see it: Stuttering happens when there's a mental disconnect between what you want and what you feel forced into. If you don't want to speak, perhaps out of fear, but feel forced to, then ...

Not caring about it actually dwarfs the anxiety that comes with stuttering so you can speak more fluent and also think/react better in the situation. But you should psychologically figure out how to d...

My stuttering surely lead me to the point where I’m at now. Long story short is that because of my stuttering I had huge social anxiety (was literally afraid to ask people on street how to get somewhe...

It’s very hard to not think about that. It can make you miserable, though. I love that you realize your stutter is making you someone you don’t hate. I think it has the power to give people the abilit...

I would be completely different and have friends or made an effort to have friends. I’d like to think that I wouldn’t sweat so much when I speak in front of a crowd because I would be fluent and not s...

Please have hope. Do everything to learn and help yourself. Have hope. You can have a successful and happy life even with your stuttering. I did, 78f. My deathbed is much closer than yours and I never...

Yes, we all do. All we can do now is to do everything we can to reduce it. Real speech therapy, self therapies, psychological therapy to deal with your feelings and self acceptance. Most of all, reali...

Wow, thanks. I’ve stuttered since early childhood. The intensity has varied. In high school it was then worse but since then has vacillated from severe, rarely, to mild/moderate throughout my adult li...

I always think about these things and also create an imaginary situations where i am giving lectures and presentations in class hahhaha. I am talking with people about my culture, identity and the per...

I would be yapping with every stranger, i would be chilling in social gatherings, i would be telling jokes in class. I would be more outgoing person, i would be helping people more, i would be most ha...