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I believe this technique isn't appropriate if you don't want your stutter to define you and/or if you don't want special treatment....

I just call it a stutter. I mean...That's what it is. I think it helps people understand the awkwardness of it more. I'm working towards being a head cashier, and eventually a department manager in th...

Actually I was taught the technique once of introducing yourself as "My name is xx, and I stutter", which seemed to work quite well because it relieved upfront some of the apprehension of getting stuc...

I attended the McGuire Prog in 1999. It helped me a great deal and set me on a path where I have lived my life more and more on my own terms and not that of my stammer...

Ironically I stutter when I say stutter so I prefer speech impediment....

Well, my go to is that “I stutter”, but if I’m not feeling confident in being able to say that I’ll go with “I have a speech impediment”. Regardless they usually tell me that I stutter before I’m able...

I don't understand why some stutterers "introduce" their speech impediment. Black people don't introduce their skin color, homosexuals don't introduce their sexual orientation, women don't introduce t...

Good for you for being open and upfront. It can be hard to get used to. I don’t think anyone likes admitting they aren’t “perfect” (whatever that even means). I find just letting people know takes the...

23 year old male here. I was the same way in high school , currently in college. Honestly, the answer is cliche: fuck people’s opinions of you. Everybody’s insecure about something, most people like t...

Train your brain to give zero fucks about your stutter. Easier said than done, i know. Therefore you should take action - you can overcome the fear of stuttering ONLY by actually putting yourself in t...

"Apart from the beatings from my parents which is something 99.99% of parents do" Mate, no, this isn't okay, no parent should act like this it is unacceptable, and this can cause trauma for my opini...

Stammering tends to manifest in the context of formative years and can colour the narrative of a lifetime. From my own experience this has been a blend of negative critical judgement, perceived or exp...

The faster you embrace it, the better. As soon as I embraced it as part of who I am, my life instantly improved. I feel like my fluency improved almost overnight as well. All that anxiety and stress a...

You can't hide your stuttering forever, so you can only embrace it. But if you could hide your stuttering forever, why not embrace it then?(because it could not do harms to your life)...

I don't know what you mean by hiding the stutter because mine is way severe for that but the more you learn to embrace your stutter the happier you will be in the long term...

Fluency is a skill. It's learned. For many of us, so is our stutter. It developed over time. Some of us have added ticks and cluttering words to our fluency blocks. e.g. I initially used "um" to avo...

As a life long stutterer my advice would be to embrace it. Hiding it just makes you resent it and yourself for having it. Accept it as a part of who you are and live your life without worrying about w...

Confidence, and *compensating*. And before you say that compensating is superficial and a bad idea, hear me out. We compensate all the time and cater to compensations all the time. See a car you lik...

Don’t get frustrated about this. You will find someone who can see past your little problem. I’ve stuttered for almost 10 years and trust me, you will overcome this. For example, my girlfriend didn’t ...

Yeah stuttering has essentially ruined my social life. Not that I don't have close friends and not that people don't like me, but what people see me as is only a small piece of what I'm thinking, how ...