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I don’t particularly feel I have a fear of people due to age but I find it much harder to talk to people in my age range (18-22) rather than older adults and kids....

There’s a very interesting point to be made about stuttering in different situations. For me, when I am comfortable with certain people, e.g my family, some friends and my stuttering community, I st...

My experience with people with strong personalities is that they rarely cared or were bothered by my stuttering, while those with neutral personalities had a much harder time knowing what they were th...

I stutter around my family. Especially my mother. Being honest I feel a little bit of fear around her. She has a histrionic and neurotic personality....

I have felt the same too sometimes. Some kind of pressure not to disappoint them. My mother interrupts a bit and say the words for me - especially when I was younger - which is not helpful at all....

I stutter around my parents too - I put it down to unconsciously needing their approval and so the underlying stress comes out via stuttering. But that's just me being an armchair psychologist so it c...

I tried to choose the courses which does not involve any group work or presentation but still there are group discussions, workshops, lab works - Oh God help ussss, i can't even sleep at night always ...

Wait! when i was reading, i felt like you were speaking on my behalf. I am facing and feeling exactly what you have mentioned. I got an ATAR of 89 in my year 12 and my brother forced me to go to top u...

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help I’m a 15 year old that has issues with stuttering, I mostly stuttering when I have much stress or if there’s much stuff going on in my mind, but recently my “friends” have been making jokes of th...

this is a clue. You CAN have the same confidence all the time. Alcohol simply removes your inhibition and loosens you up, and you can recreate this effect using other means. Normally our stutter get...

I did presentations in high school, sort of. I was a marshal at laser quest and had to "teach" people how to play but it's in quotes because I pretty much had a rehearsed speech memorized. I never t...

Many times, no anxiousness is involved and stuttering still occurs. So I am willing to take it a step further and say that anxiousness is just a coincidence, and something developed overtime as, what ...

Frequency of stuttering is simply *one metric*. CBT can decrease anxiety and avoidance. *Meanwhile, anxiety and avoidance have been added to the diagnostic criteria. “For many people, this is what c...

If I focus on the sensation I have when I block around people, it feels like someone has a gun my head and will kill me if I stutter on a word. When I’m by myself, that person with the gun to my head...

I’m glad you realize we are on the same team My copy of the latest DSM is in my office at work, and I can’t readily find a link to the exact terminology, but I know diagnostic criteria now includes...

i agree with you 100%, the hard thing about having a stutter is that all people stutter when nervous, that is why portrayal is usually a joke and also why people’s advice is to just calm down and don’...

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7118465/ *Other non-pharmacological therapeutic interventions may be beneficial, including different forms of psychotherapy such as cognitive behavioral thera...

Stutter and Social Anxiety

Stutter and Social Anxiety Hey everyone, I'm 21 years old and currently attending a top 40 nationally-ranked business school. My friends and family think I’m smart because I get good grades, but I’ve...

This is what I believe : Developmental stuttering, as diagnosed by the DSMIV, is due in part to reduced perfusion in Broca’s area *and fear of negative evaluation, negative social-evaluative cognitio...

Job interview tomorrow

Job interview tomorrow Guys pls help I have a job interview on Monday and I don’t know what to do. I just turned 18 last month and I have no work experience, I also have a blocked stutter and I’m nerv...