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Try not to panic. It clouds your perspective and makes every problem immediate and dreadful. No matter what you 'did' in work, it happened but it doesn't define you, only if you allow it. Drop me a ...

Freedom, It's probably only funny to those of us who have made peace with or stuttering. Reading the pain of some younger stutterers on this site breaks my heart. They are willing to feign muteness r...

People who don't stutter, cannot know the pain and heartbreak that comes with it. Your mom means well, and all she can really do is to force you to "be better" even though it will be nearly impossible...

Not nice? Your phrasing was unclear to me, so I asked. I’m being very neutral. Of course conversations can flow in different directions. But the vast majority of verbal interactions are gong to...

My Dad would get irate with me and belittle me and he kept telling me to keep quiet. My Dad has finally accepted the fact that his son has a stutter. I’m almost 40 now and it was just recently that he...

Think about how difficult it feels for YOU to manage your stutter. Now put yourself in the shoes of your mom/parent. She may not know or experience what you go through, but she is trying to be your ro...

When my son was a teenager I violated his privacy because he was making a poor choice. To say he was angry with me would be the understatement of the history of Reddit. I sat him down and explai...

Clinging on to relationships

Clinging on to relationships As a PWS... do you find yourself holding on to failing relationships because you fear it will take you forever to find another one ?...

I would have been in the airforce now. Maybe i wouldn't have crashed and burned into a drug and alcohol pit following feeling worthless for being blocked by a recruiter unwillingly to encourage me to...

Thanks for posting this. Reading comments - I realize that I’ve used stuttering as an excuse of why I never became a doctor, lawyer, police officer, etc. I now realize that I was just scared. I have ...

Reading this, I now realize I used stuttering as an excuse for jobs I “could have had if I didn’t stutter”....

Thank you. I'm learning that what messes me up in interviews is trying not to stutter by thinking about how to say each word properly. I'll try to get into the habit of trying not to think about it. I...

I’m an accountant specializing in Real Estate Tax Accounting, completed two out of four exams for the CPA. I work in one of the top accounting firms in South Florida. Probably will go to Law School in...

I think that’s the same for all stutterers, if I’m not mistaken? I’ve long believed that stuttering is nothing more than a mental thing —caused by trauma. So it starts all in our heads. That’s the rea...

I know 100% I wouldn't have the life I have now, careers I wanted but never had, I've just ended up going from one dead end job to another, but it's a double edge sword, I wouldn't have my sons o...

There will never be a magic pill. It’s not the sort of thing that a magic pill can address. If you can say your name normally whrn alone, but block when you encounter a human, it’s a learned avoida...

You almost definitely met them in stuttering suppprt groups, right?? Since blocking is ultimately an attempt to attempt to “hide your repetitions from the world”, ppl are much more fluent in that set...

We have a speech disability, something else has to adjust. What has to adjust is our own attitude towards ourselves, and society needs to adjust to include us. Socialization is not a sport it’s a hu...

Contradicting advice paradox

Contradicting advice paradox I have came to the conclusion that if I was to just "go talk to people regardless" then I will get even more traumatized and get even worse social anxiety. I think just ho...

I think many young stutterers are struggling with the pain of stuttering and feeling so uncertain of their future. How can I be taken seriously when I stutter? Will I ever find companionship? If I...