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I'm right with you brother. I'm 31 and I don't have a social life & have extreme social anxiety because of alot of abuse & public embarrassment all my life. I've contempled suicide multiple ti...

I've experienced this on a daily basis in my life. People don't seem to understand that they're laughing at a handicapped person. In recent years my social anxiety has taken me over because of this an...

if you feel invisible maybe you’re not out there talking enough. I noticed that I was doing most of the talking in class in college and graduate work, so much that eventually I decided I should let ...

What a weird requirement in college. We used to have to do it in primary school and I always dreaded it. I’d talk to your professor after class and candidly tell her that reading out loud is hard for ...

Man, this is simply projecting your own insecurities about yourself onto others. Generally, people don’t feel this amount of antipathy against other people and says more about how you view yourself th...

Fully aware

Fully aware I am a 18 year old male and My stuttering has got so bad now that I think it will never go away, Speech Therapy or techniques doesn’t help my stutter at all to the point I’m confident that...

"Try to sing"

"Try to sing" I just saw a comment under a video. The person was saying "try to sing" to the stammer. Don't know why but it me makes me so angry whenever people say that. I mean they're not wrong lik...

I did not stutter until 17 years old, when I met a boy who stuttered who was very outgoing and charming. I had a crush on him. However, because I was so ungainly at that time (usually dressed like a b...

I absolutely assumed that was the core of OP’s discomfort. Perhaps I should correct ableism to internalized ableism. I’m more so responding to the hurtful language OP chose for a post in a stuttering ...

Can we assume that at the core of OP’s discomfort is seeing how they imagine others perceive themself? The “ableist” discomfort is probably just a reflection of how OP feels about their own situation...

Stuttering may make other people uncomfortable, but that's mainly just them feeling bad for the person stuttering and awkward because they don't know what to do. But stutterers feel uncomfortable ar...

naaahhhhh i'm willing to bet this is internalised negativity and self hate talking. I used to think like this until I: 1. Actually talked to other people who stutter 2. Gained more self esteem and a ...

I get where you're coming from, but it's pointless thinking negatively like that. Never feel like your speech is a burden for others. It's not, stop thinking like that. As stutters we are perfectionis...

Let's be honest

Let's be honest People who stutter make me uncomfortable, having to wait to for them to finish their blocks even as a person who stutter themselves it makes me feel ill, Now let's look at it from a pe...

Saying "I am glad I am atleast able to speak" Isn't a healthy mindset. That's like saying "Yeah I'm starving to death but atleast I'm not dead", Which totally invalidates what you're going through. Ga...

I do live my life. I’m not a very negative person in general but I think it’s entirely fine for me to consider my stutter difficult and exhausting. It’s a matter of fact for me. So don’t call it stupi...

You're saying stuttering comes with its benefits but that doesn't matter if the negative outweighs the positive. Yeah I'll accept stuttering as apart of me but don't make it seem like it's some kind o...

I’ve had this philosophy for a long time. It’s self-destructive. I’ve sort of gotten over it, at least enough to want kids. However, if I ever do have kids I will be incredibly paranoid about it....

This is kinda true. I would feel awful giving this to anyone I loved, let alone my own child. Not because it’s something to be ashamed of but because it’s just so difficult and exhausting…...

Is there any hope?

Is there any hope? I'm 19 years old college student, today my teacher made me read a chapter in front of everyone and i read it very well, i didn't stutter (as far as I know) but i had some air gaps a...