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Please find a therapist or start speaking to your school counselor. Self harm, like punching yourself, is a very dangerous coping mechanism. They will help guide you into a better mental state and 100...

Advice how to help a stutterer

Advice how to help a stutterer Hi, My little brother has a severe stutter problem where he can only say one-word-sentences without stuttering about 10 seconds for every letter. It is the most intense...

Scared Father

Scared Father I will state first that I am 43 and have stuttered since I could talk. There are 2 theories in my family as to why I stutter. One is that it was just a natural thing. The other is that i...

I’ve thought about the reason behind the block is some kind of social anxiety but if it is it must be some Freudian unconscious thing because I’ve never had social anxiety, I am a social extrovert an...

What I was always told was that it can be from genetics or it can come from a traumatic experience at a young age....

Thank you! I've been to a speech pathologist and they told me my stutter was more due to anxiety, so i had to go see a psychologist. I'll try what you have recommended! Thank you once again for such a...

I block on words completely.I'll go to say ''relatively'', and instead I'll stammer out ''rrrrrrrrrrelatively''.i doubt it was triggered by something traumatic, as I have been through pretty depressin...

What type of stutter do you have? Do you block on words e.g. no sound comes out, or do you bounce on words e.g. you repeat the first letter of a word? Mmmmmmmmummy or m-m-m-mummy? The exact cause o...

Presentation in front of the whole class

Presentation in front of the whole class I'm really glad i fond this sub, because i'm really stressed right now (i've been stressing for the last 5 days) since we have a geo presentation tomorrow. We'...

Have an appointment with a speech therapist as soon as possible, there is nothing else we can do to help you. Be sure to mention the traumatic experience you went through....

Chiropractic Neurology - a revelation

Chiropractic Neurology - a revelation hello r/Stutter, I have stuttered since I learned to speak and created a reddit account just to make this post in this forum to tell my story. Having seen sever...

I might have a stutter, pls help

I might have a stutter, pls help **PLEASE take everything I say with a pinch of salt. I haven’t seen a professional so I’m only really describing my experience; some of it could be accidental exaggera...

Hello everyone

Hello everyone I'm happy I found this community, I'm 27 and I've had a stutter since I was 5. When I was a lil kid I was emotionally and physically abused by my dad and step dad and I believe that's w...

My parents weren't precisely the best. Long story short abusive toxic behaviors including aggressions. Being a child stuttering didn't help that much....

How do your parents/guardians respond to your stutter?

How do your parents/guardians respond to your stutter? Curious how they respond when you stutter and their general attitude towards your stutter in general. For a little of my own context, my mums t...

When I noticed that I stutter

When I noticed that I stutter Sorry if my English is bad, I will try my best As far as I can remember I had a stutter for 8 years and I am 17 currently. My mom told me that I started stuttering after...

Is it possible that they have selective mutism? Selective mutism (SM) is a severe situational anxiety disorder characterized by the inability to speak and communicate in certain social settings (schoo...

I wish he were comfortable, but he really isn't. He said he was on the verge of fainting from the anxiety of his stammer. I think it's a really bad case and I really just wanted to help him, he said a...

I definitely think it's a factor, my mam has some mild form and my uncle used stutter (not sure if he still does) and my mam mentioned one or more of my aunts having a stutter to some (?mild) degree b...

I stutter from birth. I also have problems with aggression from birth, so when I get excited, my stuttering becomes apparent. because of this, as a child, for many months I was afraid to talk, I wa...