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 I'll just say I haven't had speech therapy in 15 years, but I did recently go to a speech center to see what was new in the stuttering world, and the approach that's gaining a lot of traction is Avoi...

I speak Hebrew (native) and English (secondary). I stutter more in Hebrew, but I talk much more slowly in English. I do have lots of 'ummm' or 'uhh' mid sentences, so maybe it's my body's way of relea...

That's awful! I would probably cry. My tip for answering phone calls at work is to pretend I'm an NPC. Brain off, just "Hi, (name of department), this is (my name), how can I help you?" in that clic...

This might be an unpopular opinion, but I didn’t find this book to be helpful at all. I enjoyed reading about stuttering and someone else’s experience. The idea that I was able to gain more insight o...

Would it help to write things down and read off them? I notice I’ll use “automatic” prepared phrases for mundane conversations. Like pre made sentence responses. Might sound robotic but it lets me so...

When I was in school, I wish I was just mute. Life would have been so much easier, mental-health wise. I am sure logistically more difficult. However, once I got out of school and things got a lot ...

I feel the same way as you. My first language is English, and I have a good level of Spanish. The thing is, I definitely stutter a lot more in Spanish because, as you say, I have a lot less control ...

Yes, some language are very easy to work around, others aren't as easy, especially when you don't use them quite often, because if you used the other languages you stutter with, with time, you will fi...

I am the opposite I speak a lot whatever happens and it has helped me immensely. I stutter while speaking but you know what I love speaking...

Amazing when I was not talking, absolute dog shit when I had to talk in class or do a presentation....

I might as well be fucking mute

I might as well be fucking mute I can’t believe I can’t even have a conversation without stuttering or using filler words. Oh my god, and on top of that my voice sounds so bad, probably because I don’...

It’s interesting because before I started learning Arabic as an actual language, I could read the Quran with no stuttering at all. But then when I started learning Arabic, I get so stuck all the time ...

I’m a Bengali who stutters as well, English is also my first language. I would say it’s almost evenly split for me - I stutter in both English, Bangla and the Qur’anic Arabic that I recite during pray...

That’s me with Bengali and Arabic. Because my vocab is a lot more limited, I can’t easily jump words and mask myself...

Yes, I speak English and Russian. In Russian I stutter a lot more, both because it's a 'harsher' language, and the consonants make me more prone to blocks. Also, my vocab in Russian is more limited (I...

I have a mild stutter in English, but it's more moderate in Spanish (my first language). To be fair, its probably because I speak Spanish much more quickly than I do English (Cuban accents tend to hav...

Multilingual people, do you stutter in one language more than another?

Multilingual people, do you stutter in one language more than another? I have been raised in an English speaking country and would say English is my first language. My ethnicity is Bengali so that was...

idk what to do with my stuttering anymore im lost

idk what to do with my stuttering anymore im lost I'm a 21-year-old male from Algeria, and I've been stuttering since I was four years old. I've had a challenging life, both in school and outside of ...

It is indeed the incosistency nature of stuttering that make it impossible to accept it. I can understand some of the irregularities like when being emotional distress we may stutter more. Just like...

Got refused job because of stuttering

Got refused job because of stuttering Title. I am devops engineer, did a technical interview, and because I really wanted that job, I was super nervous and fucked up completely. Was stuttering in ever...