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There is no **conquering** stuttering, It'll always be there. The only way to make yourself happy with a stutter is to be delusional and I don't want to take that route, I don't want to kiss people's ...

I too struggle with it, usually I’ll just change my name for reservations at a restaurant or anywhere that doesn’t require your government name lol. T is a letter I struggle with, and unfortunately my...

Despair

Despair I know I've written a lot of times on this sub (i don't even know why I kind of feel guilty about it), but I'm starting to get into a hole and a despair I've never known in my life. One of th...

Yep. Our name isn't something we can go to the thesaurus in our mind and change on the fly, it's part of our core identity, and we're asked it enough growing up and throughout life that I'm thinking t...

Morons

Morons There are no good sides to stuttering, There wouldn't be a damn **support** group if there were any. If you stutter and it is severe the best thing you can do is to speak at a minimum and be th...

It’s because you have no excuse to not know your name. All the techniques that work to get around blocks on other words are no longer acceptable. Can’t change your name and people immediately have a ...

I think there’s a few reasons for this. Stuttering I think is largely an identity conflict. We are not sure who to be and what our responsibility is based off who we are. Our name is like a container...

Yes, your name is the only word you really can’t get out of saying by using alternative words. I think there is some shame element to it as well....

I too feel the same way. Of all the issues I have with speech blocks, saying my name is the biggest and the most stressful one. School is where it all started. When it was time to introduce ourselves ...

There is a label of psychogenic stuttering, but it is quite rare and not well researched. I don't know how much evidence there is for it at all. Anxiety isn't the cause of stuttering. If it were, we'd...

Hi, Tony, it’s Sue. I think it’s a wonderful opportunity to help those suffering and seeming to have lost hope. I stuttered but what I’ve read on this site breaks my heart. Individuals who pretend to...

I feel like trying psychotherapy would be more in line with your goals of changing your emotional response. At 36 it certainly is possible (I am 39), but as you know, you have decades of negative resp...

Your are right. Limiting yourself to a career you only pursue to avoid stuttering is unfulfilling. Everyone has his own threshold of comfort as a stutterer. If a person is ok with communicating thoug...

Thanks for the comment about the under valued approach to the emotional CAUSE of stuttering. The result of stuttering is recognized as embarrassment leads to social isolation and depression. Not all ...

I think you should send an email to them explaining the situation and how mortifying it was. That's very unprofessional of them. Even if you did have some kind of mental disability, that's so so rude...

I appreciate the comments. I thought of this because I’m realizing how much stuttering has impacted my life. I meant it as a metaphor for other people who, even with disabilities that I in no way want...

Something similar happened to me once as well. I was in high school and needed to call my office about something, and the front desk lady asked “sweetie, are you a special needs student?” I literally ...

This is what I hated most in school. I could take mocking all day, but the pity was the worst. Even from people I was close to. It made me feel less than everyone else. Probably have too much pride (o...

Bruh... and they wonder why we hate talking... COS SHIT LIKE THIS HAPPEN! WHERE THEY THINK WE ARE MENTALLY CHALANGED.... like no Susan I'm not mentaly chalange i just have a stutter..m...

When you are dumb you just accept yourself the way you are but when you stutter it feels like a torture because you are in the middle of nowhere....