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Help writing stutters

Help writing stutters Hi, I just discovered this subreddit and I don't stutter, so I thought I'd find information from those who do. I want to write characters that realistically stutter in a way that...

My first name and last name are hard.. if a baby can’t say your name when their starting out you know it’s hard lol....

Stuttering win!

Stuttering win! So, I’m really happy and proud of myself today, talked on the phone to 3 or 4 different people about taking my CNA test. Absolutely hate calling/talking on the phone cause of my stutt...

Yeah it’s a thing hey. Apparently all stammerers struggle with their name, seems cruel!...

I can releate so much to the first one. For example I had id before my friends did so I was the one that went to the store to buy alcohol, cigarettes etc. And it happened several times that I walked o...

Sometimes when its just random person asking whats my name I come up with another name. Somehow all the names are easier to say that your own...

I know in advance the words that trouble me (unfortunately, my name is one of them). I often have to hesitate and breathe and center myself, and I know people are looking at me going "Don't you know y...

Thank you for this! I’m studying to become a SLT and I’ve stuttered all my life. Plosives, nasals (m n), fricatives (s z th) and affricates (ch dge) really get me, I plan on using these. Again thank y...

Hey, sounds very familiar. And ironically I am also doing my masters of speech pathology which my mates find hilarious and I’m sure I’ll never hear the end of it. I also have trouble with the plosives...

That’s so true. It’s like the punchline of a joke, another common stutter scenario....

There’s no specific words for me, sometimes it’s i or words that start with H or S or C/K But it varies Tbh....

Anything with a H or a M at the beginning of a sentence has always impossible for me. To this day I cannot say Hello when answering a phone call (god only knows how much I’ve practiced this too)...

My best friend did, and would call my friend by her surname because he knew he’d often stutter her name...

My best friend did, and would call my friend by her surname because he knew he’d often stutter her name...

I feel you, I’m in the Marine Corps and I stutter on my last name....

Yes! I believe a speech pathologist said it's the most common thing for stutterers to consistently block on! Its a psychological thing because it's a word that we cannot avoid saying....

Wait, it's common to stutter on our names?? That makes me feel so much better about myself! 😅...

I am very similar my first and last name start with Br and Gr respectively and I struggle with both of them it is *mildly* infuriating...

For me it’s my last name.. cause it starts with au.. It’s very embarrassing sometimes to not be able to say your own name...

Mainly the plosive sounds of the phonetic alphabet. I think that’s fairly common. And also like most stutterers, my name 🙄...