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When I was in my teens and early twenties I’d often go into Manhattan, and sometimes I’d need directions, so I’d ask some stranger. Mostly I’d ask a person who was coming toward me, and I’d l...

This is why my school life was a horror show minus the other experiences. Every time my turn came to introduce myself, I started panicking, racing heartbeats and what not. All the symptoms made my spe...

One of the major stuttering therapies requires for you to do public speaking - and do a lot of it as facing your fear of speaking is a huge factor in becoming more fluent. I am truly sorry you feel ...

Same Bro I'm 14, and ima take his advice and talk to people, like I dont stutter because this shit is not ruining my fucking life. Fuck that, I have a dream of learning a foreign language and I been...

Awkward. I don't like hearing myself stutter and I don't like hearing other people stutter. I've laughed at people stuttering a few times so I can't be too mad at the guy who laughed. Obviously feel b...

Yes. I eventually stopped talking in front of people. Every time there were introductions or a group activity, i just left....

Daamn,i did the same thing.We used to read set books in class according to our sitting arrangements.I never ever read,the fear of being laughed at was real.I told the teacher,i have a stuttering probl...

Yes bro,i went through it on a daily basis when i was in school.All through highschool.We used to read a set book in class and the teacher used to follow the sitting arrangement to make everybody read...

I wouldn't count mine as a disability as I don't feel it's severe enough and feels weird to me but I completely agree with what you mean. Even a small stutter is embarrassing, but usually, people eit...

Yes. That was the entirety of my education. Note: you DO NOT have to speak if you don’t want to. Just say “pass” or “sorry, I can’t talk”. That’s MUCH better for your health than having minor heart ...

You’ve never been made fun of? How is that possible? Congratulations lol What about looks or comments of pity? That is always worse for me. Like I’m less than everyone else....

I hated them in college. The worst (and laziest) ones were introducing ourselves and something like “tell us the worst thing you’ve eaten” and then the professor would go student by student. By the ti...

What makes that so awful is knowing everyone in the class is looking at the paragraph as you read and would notice any word substitutions....

We use to go up and down the rows when I was in class and take turns reading a paragraph from our text books. What made it worse for me was just watching it closer and closer too my turn coming. I’d f...

panicked and refused to do the icebreaker in class

panicked and refused to do the icebreaker in class my class today did icebreakers/introducing yourself to the class and when it got to my turn i panicked so hard and just said “no thank you i’ll pass”...

I have found that when hitting a block is to stop talking. Take a deep breath and exhale slowly then try again. I've had my share of really bad stuttering blocks and they can be quite demoralizing f...

What a wonderful person she was to be so understanding. You shouldn’t feel shame at all since she processed it well. I know it’s emotionally triggering but you got a positive response when it happened...

You are not alone in this - it is definitely something I find that after a social event of lots of talking I just feel emotionally exhausted and humiliated if it’s gone poorly, then the last thing I w...

I once tried to answer a question in a class full of students, the block wasn’t voiceless but more like stutter and choke, not load though, for 3-4s, anyway the teacher just ignored me and said: can s...

Can we talk about how emotionally triggering speech blocks can be?

Can we talk about how emotionally triggering speech blocks can be? Just had a wonderful conversation with someone i haven’t seen in awhile. After effortless speech, the moment finally came…. She asked...