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Completely agree! We know how to speak. Focusing on your speech makes it worse. I was so ashamed every time I was taken out of class to do speech therapy as a kid. So humiliating, as if stuttering isn...

I like to address the issue and tell them i have a stutter as soon as i appropriately can. Usually they'll reply like "Thats ok that won't be a problems as long you can perform x job role." It makes...

God it was the worst. I refused to wear the mask for a long time because i couldn't handle customers not being able to tell i was struggling and interrupting me or trying to finsih my sentences....

I'm a software consultant. I don't write any software but I teach new users how to use their new program. The thing that helps me is knowing I'm the 'expert' in conversations. Along with that, I'...

I work on policy and lobby from time to time on policies supporting local and ethnic media in California. My job involves facilitating small groups, which can be very difficult with a stutter. So much...

I won't lie, at first it was intimadating, which resulted in my stutter worsening. However, with time & experience, I now have more confidence in my nursing skills & my relationships with my f...

There will never be a magic pill. It’s not the sort of thing that a magic pill can address. If you can say your name normally whrn alone, but block when you encounter a human, it’s a learned avoida...

You almost definitely met them in stuttering suppprt groups, right?? Since blocking is ultimately an attempt to attempt to “hide your repetitions from the world”, ppl are much more fluent in that set...

I wouldn't listen to Mort too much. He has no standing in the stuttering community....

I don’t know your educational background in the field. Nor your background in the mental health field. These two factors are a beyond important when dealing with young PWS. Also,your life experiences ...

I'm glad it's working for you, but I wouldn't tell this to a kid. It's teaching them how to hide their stutter, which teaches them they should hide it, which teaches them that stuttering is bad, which...

To add to this, getting experience is also incredibly important because even if you do "get over" the stutter, if you've spent your whole life avoiding speaking, you're not going to know what to do an...

Why do you say every stutter is different? Most people have remarkably similar experiences, habits, and types of stutters. Most ppl who “only block” are classic covert stutterers, who struggle w the...

I’m mean sure it definitely ruined my childhood and made my teenage years a living hell. But now that I’ve got it mostly under control it really is a net benefit in my life as a salesman. Its someth...

There are definitely days we all have felt like this. Iv kinda been reverting back into a worse stutter over the last few years. Slowly at first but the last 6 months just really bad. But, I had a goo...

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Morons There are no good sides to stuttering, There wouldn't be a damn **support** group if there were any. If you stutter and it is severe the best thing you can do is to speak at a minimum and be th...

I tend to spell it out and then explain that I have a stutter and my name is hard for me to say. It’s better to get a confused look then inform them rather than stutter on my name and them jokingly as...

Such a great post! Been struggling all my life with saying my name. My name starts with a M Sometimes it just comes out like I’m moaning lol “Mmmmmm”. I just told my front desk office that if anyone ...

But I'm not open with my stuttering I hate to even talk about it, others just figure it out by the way I speak....

Oh yeah kids will definitely laugh at you. Some kids will even mock you. Kids are dicks and have no social filter. But if you don’t react, don’t get mad and just reset they eventually stop. Someti...