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I couldn't have written it better. I wholeheartedly feel you. Wish I could help you, others & myself, but I don't know how. Everything I do is being overshadowed by by stuttering. Not just GF, it'...

Oh man how well I know how you feel :( Too often stutter feel like a nullifier of anything we are good at. In this respect it is unlike anything else on this planet. Sucks hard. I wish I could offer m...

Nothing I do can make up for my stutter....

Nothing I do can make up for my stutter.... I've had people say to me that my stuttering is a good filter to weed out shallow girls and that someone will fall in love with the "real me." As if they're...

Hi I feel a bit late, 8 years after you posted. I m 38 years old and it s the first time i decide to start talking about this, the first time i read a post about it. I wanted to know how someone else...

Do you feel as if your awkwardness is purely due to your stutter?

Do you feel as if your awkwardness is purely due to your stutter? ...

I have asked and everytime my professors have made me present. My one presentation was so bad, my professor's face looked like a combination of shame/sadness (I don't think he believed me until then)....

One often comes to mind. I was about 15 doing a school presentation in a group in front of my class and all of our parents. When it was my time to talk, I literally stuttered and EVERY single word. Ma...

At a doctors office, a nurse asked me to confirm my birthdate. I stuttered on the 12, and she chuckled. I proceeded to stutter on the 13, and she chuckled again. She then said, “come on, it’s not a tr...

Oh for sure. I think it’s because sometimes I feel ashamed or cringe when I stutter so when I see someone else stuttering it brings out the same emotion. I recognize this isn’t the correct reaction so...

Hey mannn I fkn feel ya, it absolutely sucks. I could be having the best conversations one day or sometimes that exact day would be perfect but outta nowhere my block creeps in and messes me up. Thi...

When I was around 17/18 I was doing a retail job interview which entailed a 30 min trial on the shop floor. A fellow staff member approached me introduced themselves really politely and asked me for ...

I remember my first semester of college, we had this final project that consisted of going to interview at least 3 CEOs of large or small companies and then after 2 weeks we would have to individually...

Stoke on trent waterpark 2 years ago, i was 15. Theres one narrow staircase for 4 separate slides, me and my friend were going to the top floor for one of the slides and there was an attractive ~22 ye...

Had to talk to a helicopter pilot to call in a water drop on a wildfire. Most stressful and frustrating 10 minutes of my life. Ended up giving the radio to my squad boss. It was very embarrassing....

Substitute Teaching

Substitute Teaching About two months ago, I started working as a substitute teacher at an elementary school. My stutter is moderate, but can get pretty severe and I also have social anxiety disorder. ...

I was talking to this dude who used to be my homie. We were using the chirp phones. I was talking to him and got stuck really bad. What I didn't know is this bitch ass mf was at a bus stop and had ...

I was recently checking into a hospital, had to do some paperwork for my surgery etc Receptionist is asking me a bunch of questions and then asks for my moms name, to which I had a block on and he sa...

I have many. 1. We had to do 3 presentations during our course and j tried so hard to reach out to the teachers so I can skip them but they said it was compulsory and they would give me extra time. I...

Ugh. There's been many, but the one that often comes to mind was back about 2007 (I was about 29) and my partner, my mum and I were looking at apartments to buy. We introduced ourselves to the real es...

I feel the same way! I have days where I'd just rather not say anything at all and when I'm prompted instant block. Or having to call somebody is the worst. I'm trying to get back to not giving a shit...