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My story Hi guys, I am a mild to severe stutterer. I suffer from my stutter mentally. I feel like my stutter is holding me back in life and I often think about how my stutter will affect my live in t...

One more question,how do you not hear disfluencys. I'm aware that everyone has disfluencys but how do you transition from a stutterer that worries constantly about how they sound to being like the ave...

A bit of waffle about one of my theory's on stuttering

A bit of waffle about one of my theory's on stuttering Perhaps we just learned that to speak wrong. Stuttering seems to be a phase of learning to speak for all people,maybe stutterers try too hard to ...

I learned mindfulness meditation and learned how to be 'present' in my conversations. When I'm speaking to someone, I'm fully present with the person and the topic we are discussing. I'm not payi...

This may be a bit long... but here goes. I see the following options for stutterers. 1. Costal Breathing where you breathe and talk a specific way. 2. Traditional(?) therapy which looks at a mix of ...

Yeah man definitely normal! I think your emotions, beliefs and cognitive factors play a huge role into the stuttering. Those things are also related to different situations. Personally I don´t stutter...

Having trouble finding a professional job

Having trouble finding a professional job Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone here has a degree in business and works in that field. If you don't mind me asking, what kind of job do you have? I ...

Stutter/clutter has been worsening over past year—is it normal for it to show up more in certain situations?

Stutter/clutter has been worsening over past year—is it normal for it to show up more in certain situations? I've had a very slight stammer for a long time, but over the COVID-19 pandemic, it has sign...

Do you think you are overthinking it a bit? Lots of people just find it hard to make eye contact, I barely do for a few seconds on and off, I have ADHD...

Got my first job!

Got my first job! I've been stuttering my whole life but during the pandemic it's just getting worse as we start online school. I took Graphic Design for my degree and for the last 2 semester it has b...

how did I get here

how did I get here Reddit suggests things all the time...how tf it know I have a stutter!? Like legit stutter. I've stuttered since I was 5. I'm 31 now. How does everyone deal with theirs? Like with r...

people don't hear me and im asked to repeat.

people don't hear me and im asked to repeat. Hi, i posted on this sub before about a problem of mine, when i talk people don't hear me and im asked to repeat. Some of y'all said if you can ask a close...

Stutter/server job

Stutter/server job Hi! I have about a total of 5 years of customer service experience/ team leadership experience, which you think would be more than enough to qualify me for a server job, but for som...

Thanks. I'm not very good at joking around because everything takes me forever to say, but I can see how that could set people more at ease with my stuttering. I'm horrible at maintaining eye contact ...

"I don't know if it looks vulnerable or just weak and stupid, honestly." Exactly, you don't know. You don't know the listener's experience so don't make assumptions. You can stutter easy or hard. Try...

Yes, problem solvers + fast thinkers = we could be indestructible haha all jokes aside, it takes having special skills to think hard about constructing a sentence and saying something completely diffe...

I don't know how this is for everyone else, but I usually control my stutter in general by having to focus on what I'm saying and how I'm saying it at the same time. On the really bad days, I focus ...

First thing you have to do is stop thinking so hard and stop being afraid to stutter. It’s okay to stutter and trust me when you stop thinking it’s get 10 times better and you become more fluent with ...

Stutter and jobs

Stutter and jobs I'm getting a summer job soon and it's gonna be my first real job so I'm very nervous about it. It’s a fear of mine to talk to new people because of my stutter, I just wanted to get t...

Speech problem

Speech problem Hello to all! I am writing this because I want to see if somebody has same problem as I have. I'm 21yo guy who has stuttering speech problem in some aspects of life. For example - in ...