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If I'm talking to myself, which I do often no. However recently been reading aloud and omg when I started it was so bad but it's getting better. I've been recording myself and then listening to how I ...

Same age, pretty much same story. Work presentations and big meetings are stressful, but I work in the gaming industry so people are chill and don’t really care about it. I’m also good at hiding it, t...

Experience from a 40 year old…

Experience from a 40 year old… Long post here… I’m 40. My stutter generally comes with certain word blocks. Most people don’t know that I have a stutter since I’ve learned to mask it well over the y...

Saying things like this absolutely won't change the fact that everyone who doesn't stutter thinks the opposite of this, saying "Oh don't worry, no one thinks poorly of your stutter." Won't change the ...

I think I did. I also was part of the Pagaclone study and perhaps I got a placebo for that too. I was on Zyprexa for a few months, and that made me block a lot. It also gave me an eyelid twitch for 1 ...

My best friend realized my stuttering bothered me 7 years into our friendship. An ex-gf realized it bothered me 3 years into our relationship. 99.99% of people never did. It killed me inside every sec...

You can bro. I've been working in a call centre full time for the past 10-11 months. It's been my first and actual job at full time with a stutter. Some days I feel like walking out and calling it q...

I was thinking about this at work today and something that I have been brainstorming is buffering out blocks B/c I wear a face mask at work it hides the weird face muscles I make when I'm getting blo...

I tried Abilify (Aripiprazole)

I tried Abilify (Aripiprazole) As dopamine-antagonist seems to be the most helpful drug for stuttering, i give aripiprazole a try. I got it prescribed for tourette syndrome, which i also have. &#...

I’ll add that the first 2 departments I applied to didn’t hire me specifically because of my stuttering. The third department hired me, I gave them 7 years of which I was on SWAT for 4 years, 3 of ...

Part of it is probably ways you are trying to subconsciously avoid eye contact. Try to make normal eye contact - this is actually a huge way to ULTIMATELY get your brain to feel less ashamed, which l...

Yep. I can be close to 100% fluent under pressure. It's not because I can suddenly speak letters I usually block on, but because I work my ass of getting around them to avoid being embarrased....

You got a point. Personally, I think the fear I have for stuttering and potentially being ridiculed forces me to try to come up with different pathways to fluency. I start searching for synonyms, rest...

Stuttering Faces

Stuttering Faces I (31M) make really weird faces when I start stuttering while I am talking. And that makes me really self conscious and increases my anxiety. How can I stop making weird faces when I ...

I usually only had hard silent blocks (no repetitions). Right in middle of sentence, I’d suddenly look down and bang my hand on my thigh. Most people had no idea what I was doing. They only know if...

Yeah that’s what i was thinking, and i got the app and they also got those screens inside you can place the order without saying a word but just wanted to challenge myself...

This could be big but even if you didn't receive the placebo, I bet there's some sort of placebo effect if it's working THAT fast. also side note: the McDonald's app has online ordering (and some gre...

50% Good news 50% NOT

50% Good news 50% NOT This morning (10 hours ago), I received my first dose of the (likely) NOE-105. This drug is being tested for its ability to treat stuttering in adults. Although I didn't experien...

people don't realize how hard work it is being a stutterer. constantly having to think like this is so tiring....

Totally agree with this comment. Interestingly there have been trials with neuroleptics/antipsychotics which came to the conclusion that taking them has a diminishing effect on stuttering. However neu...