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Yes, there are those kind of situations, and yes they will be painful and suck. But don't run from them! These next 3 weeks are vital and important for the next 4+ years. It'll be easiest time in your...

I had to introduce myself to nearly 20 complete strangers at my college orientation in 2015 and had one of the worst blocks of my life. Embarrassed, frustrated, upset - I just wanted to skip college. ...

One day at a time bud. I was always the introvert (and still am). Don't look at the bigger picture when it comes to stuttering. I thinking taking it day by day with baby steps is the right way to go. ...

I have gone through the exact same thing. Email your professors before hand and let them know that you aren’t comfortable doing this. Maybe go in a little early and talk to them, so they can see that ...

I'm not referring to modules on public speaking or courses (of which I think there are a few on my degree anyway), but the general speaking in public that's unavoidable as part of adult life. I'm off ...

Thanks for this, hugely helpful! I think you're absolutely right. The story needs to stand on its own two feet regardless of the stuttering issue. Out of curiosity, do you work with YA fiction? As you...

My 13 year old has a significant stutter and leads a perfectly normal life. He is accepted at school, no one teases him (and everyone has learned to let him sound out his own words) and overall he is ...

He didn’t really ask for therapy but has been saying he hates his speech and voice for a year now. He still talks a lot, even in public, and has a lot of friends, and I don’t want him to get to the p...

I've had a doctor who had the worst accent. I asked him to repeat himself many times. Then I spoke to his nurse. Usually, that nurse do a lot of the talking. Anyway, that doctor had his own practice. ...

Going to university did wonders for my confidence. I was suddenly in a situation where I had to talk to people I didn't know, and although I was expecting the usual jokes and laughs, I didn't get any....

It's true! No one ever made fun of my stutter in college. Everyone is so wrapped up in their own lives. ...

Yea just picked out my classes today and told my adviser and student adviser and they said you’ll be fine everyone has their own problems. ...

College is where all my walls came down and my confidence developed. You just can't NOT participate. That forces you to practice speaking in front of people. Fluent or not, you get exposed to so many ...

fellow stuttering academic here!! Just keep doing it. as your English proficiency improves explaining things will get easier (at least from a linguistic sense). You're working on two skills here spee...

Hey, my senior year is about to start as well, and I'll say, my speaking requirements are still fearful events for me unless I specifically enjoy it. For example I'll be taking a film class that does...

I just graduated from college, and sort of remember my orientation. From my experience I feel like half of the day was just listening to other people talk, or meeting with advisors. The other half w...

Hey, sorry you didn’t get in first time. I’m from the UK, so we don’t do premed, we just go from college straight to medicine! In my first interview, I also bombed it but it was because I was so nerv...

My school is a lot smaller than yours (3k) but my experience with the ice breakers we did is that you don’t have to overdo it if you aren’t comfortable talking at first. I never felt like I was in a s...

It's pretty big. 28k students. Did you have to introduce yourself or do any ice breakers? Did you say that you stuttered during them or did you not acknowledge it? ...

I had my college orientation about two weeks ago and the people there were really nice about it. How big of a school are you attending? ...