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Oh no im a little worse than him too, most days I can be almost fluent but some days I’m pretty bad with it. I was just expecting him to stutter more as I know I would’ve in that sort of environment....

I imagine he would disagree with you. Many of us are able to be reasonably fluent when giving prepared presentations. It's the unprepared conversations (social interaction) where the disfluency really...

there are psychological, physiological, and neurological stutters, block, repetition, and prolongation stutters, childhood-onset, late-onset, or acquired stutters, stress-related, fatigue-related, and...

Yes. I have been fluent for over half my life now. I went back to speech therapy in my mid-20s and achieved fluency. I did not start using my fluency outside of the therapist office until very late i...

The goal isn't achieving 100% fluency. She told me that even after therapy, I'll still be stuttering, but not as much. I would've stopped long ago, but my parents encouraged me to continue and they'...

Most definitely! Currently going through this. I've stuttered since I was 3... It definitely gets worse that time of month. It's aggravating because I'm already super emotional & then to add that ...

I feel you. Sometimes it gets to an unbareable level.. Like I can have a wonderful week with barely no stuttering, then something happens and every 2nd word I say gets blocked. Hopefully you get ove...

Guess it depends who you’re talking with. Do you stutter with everybody? Even babies, close friends, etc?...

Yea I've felt this way too. Kinda like stuttering is the weakest part of you and it's the limiting factor. Unless you find a way to reduce your stuttering to a point where it no longer becomes an issu...

I relate to this a lot. I recently graduated college and have been working full time for over a year now. Work is going great and my boss has complimented many times on how I exceeded expectations for...

Me? Yes. Since being a v young child. Past two years I have made huge improvements. I go Toastmasters etc. some days it isn’t there at all. Not “cured” just a lot more recovered. Don’t believe everyth...

To what lenths do you think stuttering impacts you general wellbeing?

To what lenths do you think stuttering impacts you general wellbeing? I mean in every aspect that you could think of....

For a number of years I was the Tech Sales guy in a couple of big IT consultancies. I'd accompany the main sales guy who got appointments, did cold calling and all of that. I would accompany him to sa...

Extended a 5 minute online meeting to 20 mins

Extended a 5 minute online meeting to 20 mins Probably gonna be fine in a few hours but right now I just want to die. Had to resort to in-call chat feature to finally say each sentence I stammered on ...

I'm 99% fluent as an adult English native stutterer, however, when I speak Spanish to my cleaners I stutter a little. Does anyone know why this is? It really bothers me....

Work

Work I’m going to start using this sub to show my achievements instead of ranting. But omg I went a full day of work with barely any speech blocks just stutters! I was so happy. I may have looked stup...

Running a whole gift shop by myself

Running a whole gift shop by myself I don’t know what my deal is. One day I’m fine and the next I can’t spit out someone total to them. It lasts for a week goes away for a week and the cycle repeats. ...

I have a friend whose native language is Spanish, and English in her second language. She does not stutter in English, but she does in Spanish....

Yep 100% agree. I’m 24 and been stuttering for as long as i can remember. It’s a struggle but take everyday one day at a time...

I wish I knew. I had a mod to severe stutter as a child, but as an adult, my stutter has improved drastically on its own. I mostly suffer from vocal blocks now, secondary behaviors (rapid eye blinking...