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What should I do? (Advice request)

What should I do? (Advice request) I (male, 18yo) have a severe stutter since I started to talk, I have been to a speech therapist and taking pills to depresion and anxiety for 5 mouths, all my life m...

You and I are quite similar. I too stutter and have an older brother who can be insensitive about my speech sometimes. It was worse when we were younger (kids and siblings tease each other), but as we...

There is the me that could have been but I'm not that person. I could never have been. This is my life. I'm the person I have had to be. Most of the things that put people off about me aren't my stut...

Does anyone feel like they're unable to be their trueselves with a stutter?

Does anyone feel like they're unable to be their trueselves with a stutter? Hey all, Bit of a background before I get into the main topic, but I'm in my late 20s and have had a stutter since I was ar...

I can resonate. Some days are like that. Some days when I have a big block on the morning, I know I am conditioned for the whole day. When I have a day like that I try to be honest with my past expe...

Overcoming negative image of one's self, caused by stuttering?

Overcoming negative image of one's self, caused by stuttering? Hello, Some days I just seem to block on every word. I have no idea why, and when these days come around it just drops my mood for an e...

Hey bud I’m 22 too, every word you said is the same for me, it's really hard for us we really don't know what to do or where to go, it's like we got lost somewhere...

If I can't make my stutter disappear completely then I see no point in trying anymore......

Gets frustrating sometimes

Gets frustrating sometimes I’m not one to get mad at something I can’t control. But seeing how the people around me can speak freely without a second thought irritates me sometimes. I know it’s all ju...

Im exhausted

Im exhausted I dont know what else to say but im tired. Im tired of having to neatpick my words all the time, filtering everything i say. Ive missed out on so many friendships and opportunity because ...

Stutter can lead to many things

Stutter can lead to many things I have stutter since a child and it’s very up and down throughout my life. I can never do presentations after getting traumatized from trying to do em. It’s lead to m...

normal people usually either deny our disability or see us as half humans

normal people usually either deny our disability or see us as half humans the people in my surroundings are divided into two groups the first see me as a normal human with low self-esteem and confide...

Dude, this happened to me a few months ago. Met a big donor for the organization I am the director for, as he is a billionaire and is not in town much, and my incompetent talking mechanism of blocks, ...

I'm sorry. It sounds like you have a yeast infection. If you want to live, like you do. do nothing. Have you tried to talk in a class? Did you learn how to control your inhibitions? You are absolutely...

>*"my theory is that your subconscious has this need to be perfect when you’re expressing yourself"* Exactly! What you are describing is essentially what research considers "**conflict monitoring*...

I still don't believe the ultimate cause to be neurological. There's a physiological factor that somehow contributes to the neurological through our own behavior. Whether that is and what it could be ...

Do you guys feel the same?

Do you guys feel the same? Hey guys, I have one question. I feel that my opinion has no weight in any area of my life. All that I say all that I know, just disappear when I stutter. No matter how...

The naming convention is meaningless to you and meaningless to me, as I literally said in the closing paragraph of a comment you replied to: "The types are simply used to describe the manner in which ...

I agree with much of what you have detailed, especially that stuttering is exacerbated by anxiety linked to lack of control. However I think it is important to remember that the underlying aetiology o...

In my opinion: I think that stuttering-like disfluencies require a certain belief \[convincing oneself\] \[self-imposing demands\], which could play a critical and likely necessary role in the manife...