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I went to an amazing therapist who trained in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and spent two years unpicking my stutter and the negative processes that happen in environments/conversations where I s...

my mother used to tell me as a child, that i was punishing her with my stutter because she used to bully people with stutters. that definitely stuck with me almost a decade later. another experience w...

Tw: beatings I'll use a throwaway. Got bullied at primary school from age 7-12. It started because I had a stutter. Teachers didn't react but they knew. We had 1 teacher per year (September to the ...

Things have gotten better between us. She's become a little more sensitive because she knows how that makes me feel, definitely left some long lasting trauma but Its definitely getting better!...

I was bullied (like a lot of us here I'm sure) in high school for it. It was a group of 6 - 8 boys who would tell me to say some pretty difficult and long words and would punch me if I stammered or if...

Speech therapy didn't do anything for me and I think it's clear why: I can speak, the issue is mental (or maybe neurological). I don't blame myself, I'm just looking for ways to improve this condition...

I respectfully disagree with this. Nobody knows how it works, so why couldn’t it be a subconscious phenomenon which can be improved through autosuggestion? There are also different ways in which a st...

Stuttering as a form of negative autosuggestion/self hypnosis

Stuttering as a form of negative autosuggestion/self hypnosis So, over quite a long time I have formed this theory about how my stutter works. I say 'my stutter' because I think it's entirely possible...

We need to start treating stuttering as a symptom, not the problem.

We need to start treating stuttering as a symptom, not the problem. Hi folks, I was disappointed when I discovered that this subreddit was primarily focusing on techniques to overcome the physical eff...

Advice

Advice I am new to stuttering. I've read through a lot of posts here and a lot of people have been stuttering since childhood. I recently (a little less than two years ago) acquired a stutter due to m...

I started stuttering at 17. I had three concussions within a few months of each other. It's weird going from speaking fluently to barely being able to say a few words. It's been a bit over a year now ...

I am interested to hear your story. Did you consider both of your parents to be loving and caring? What did you experience at school?...

Traumatic events can cause and worsen a stutter, but even in a loving family there are many waus a stutter can be developed, from my experience mostly at school...

My step father had a mean temper and would spank or poke me really hard. Reading your story makes me think it's partly a cause of my stutter. Glad you've moved out :)...

I really do want to help myself. I just dont know how to tell my family why I need help. they seem to have concluded that it's something that I can deal with by myself if I try harder and that it's al...

So sorry that you are going through this. This was also me growing up, lashing out, cursing people who treated me like I was a leper. I was put in speech therapy and later in life I saw a therapist ...

Started when I was 7 or 8 after suffering from a lot of abuse from my mom and her ex. Nobody did anything and she kept telling me I have to work to get her to set up my own speech therapy. Lived with ...

My Silent Story

My Silent Story My Life has been full of Anger, Frustration, Sadness, and Shame, living in a rough end in london with this condition has made me social anxious, worried that someone may be silently ju...

Oh, I literally just got scared of a dog aswell. Also hey Pedro, I do know you :). Were you in the same traumatic situation, or was it something different about the dog?...

My mom had a moderate stutter and when she turned 14, she told herself that she was done (and her stutter stopped). As for me, my stutter appeared at the age of 5 due to a traumatic dog 🐕 attack and...