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It's only getting worse..

It's only getting worse.. Hi so I'm a 22 year old girl in uni and I noticed that my stutter has been getting worse the older i get.. I've been more anxious than ever and i almost never leave my house ...

A read a bit of your post again. And it's a great thing that you identify "feeling embarrassed", (😞 so I'm unemployed with a Bsc. In accounting and now I have two interviews in a Call Center...😬😬😬...

Experience

Experience Attended an interview. They were highly impressed, never once stumbled on words or experienced speech blocks. I was unusually my usual confident self, related my experience in my career (ev...

Thank you for the kind and inspiring words. About my family and my partner, I know for sure how they'll react because my family did tease me when I tried to say something when I was a kid. The problem...

Fear of Incompetence

Fear of Incompetence I’ve been stuttering since the third grade and I have always maintained the perception of being the one in class with all the intellect. With that maintenance comes the expectatio...

the only way out is through. taking steps to accept your stutter will eventually disconnect the bad emotions related to your stutter. we get lost in our heads - we become scared to stutter and the sha...

I don’t know how long I have left.

I don’t know how long I have left. I’m 15 years old and I have just started my fourth year in high school. It has been the worst thing to ever happen to me in my life, my stutter became worse over the...

I also feel stupid for most of the reasons you give. I am an attorney but when I talk to others I often get my words muddled and think I must sound like an idiot....

What woman would ever date a man who stutters?

What woman would ever date a man who stutters? I've been stuttering since I was 12. It's changed my life in every way possible. I can barely say my name and It's so humiliating. Should I just accept t...

I totally agree with that statement as someone who has been to a speech therapist and had my stutter come down to "very manageable"...it will always come back if certain other things (like self accept...

I had a severe stutter that only got better after therapy. IMO any speech therapy that does not deal with the shame, and fear associated with stuttering is not worth it. Being OK with stuttering n...

I'm in my 30s and I have to say my late teens and early twenties were the hardest years. That period is hard for most people (though many hide it well), it's also a period of intense growth, often lon...

Insecurity and stammering

Insecurity and stammering I feel like I’ve made my stammer such a big problem in my head that I can barely interact with people. Today I went to my friends house, and there was someone there who asked...

I live my life in constant fear of stress and conflict

I live my life in constant fear of stress and conflict The title explains it but it’s actually ruinous because I can’t do anything that puts me even slightly out of my comfort zone without fearing exp...

He stuttered on about 30% of his words. I did conventional speech therapy with him for a while but honestly that wasn’t what I needed then. I had an enormous amount of shame about stuttering. It af...

I'm my experience they do not understand. I don't think any fluent person unless someone they know has struggled can overcome the ignorance fluent people enjoy. (This comment turned into a VENT hope...

I feel you, people often don't expect a stutter and it makes me look like a dumbass...

OMG, my father hated that I stuttered. He was embarrassed of it. When I would stutter, he used to yell so loud “what the hell is the matter with you? Where did I go wrong? Spit it out Gd dammit!” The ...

Oh boy. Nearly all of difficult emotions about stuttering tie back to my father. He would scream, and pound his hand on the dinner table, and yell “just spit it out!” whenever I stuttered during a mea...

I’m sorry you didn’t or don’t have an understanding father. My father was terribly abusive to me, and my mother was not much better. I think his abuse maybe the root of my stutter. My dad is extremel...