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thank you for this :D , this is the motivation i need, but the best now i can do is to avoid those people who mock me. i don't want to break my mental peace...

I had an experience like that, the women said "oh, did you forget your name?" It's hard, but 1.) You can't force your self to say a word, you can only hide or go through the block (stutter) and i pr...

I was married for 10 years. My wife never knew until one day ordering food on the phone and I had an episode. Aside from that one slip up, she would not have known. I hide it well, but it's stressf...

LOL!!! SO true. Also if I am ordering from an indian/ foreign place I just start prolonging the syllables of the dishes name and acting as if I am having a hard time finding the correct way to pronoun...

i hate all those words starting with C or K, I wish humanity could erase those alphabets lol like I always stuck while saying words like CRicket or CRedit, so what do I is take a pause (I try to brid...

Eh, I’ve been dealing with it all of my life. I just push through it and move on to the next thing. I try to not to let it get to me anymore. I also work on my fluency and that’s a lot better now, ...

Same boat as you. I avoid saying a lot of words due to the stutter but I fear it makes people think I’m stupid. I had some co workers tell me there’s a difference between how I talk on email vs in per...

There's a post from me in this sub from a while back that outlines that. In the end though it's habit, I'm mid 50s, I kicked the stutter very late in my 20s. Tough time before then....

Something that I have found to help is to focus on pronouncing the second letter in my name more than the first letter. Starts with a D which is a hard letter for me, so I instead focus on the second ...

Stuttering as a tour guide

Stuttering as a tour guide Howdy frens In a few weeks I start a job as a tour guide and, although my stuttering is way less than it was years ago, I still struggle occasionally, especially with the ...

i got cooked

i got cooked i got absolutely cooked man, stood up for a speech on first day cause i felt like i was getting forced to speak on mun ( wasnt aware how muns work) and i stuttered after every 2 words tha...

I'm always way more baffled by my stuttering ass having to make a speech when my homies will get marrief...

Your stutter is automated and habitual, body's default way of doing speech. To change this you have to recondition your mind to use a different pattern, almost like force yourself to write with the ot...

Hey, I agree with you that generally stutter is not something to be embarrassed about. But, I think what you said is up for the stutterer to decide. Personally, growing up I felt embarrassed about my ...

I got used to ppl finishing my sentence's, lol i used to hate it but it its less frustrating than having to struggle to get it out, my wife/ex was very good at making me feel comfortable wherever we w...

how do y’all prefer people react when you stutter? & why?

how do y’all prefer people react when you stutter? & why? i also have a stutter, so i’m just curious to see if other people have similar or different preferences. personally, i most prefer that peopl...

Its the overthinking at the time of introduction. Dont think much, practice smiling in front of a mirror and confidently inreoducing yourself if you have to....

Your prolongation didn’t go away, so much as it morphed into the block, also called a covert stutter. If you learn to be comfortable with others hearing your prolongations again, thr blocks will vani...

Stutter blocks around your own name are quite difficult but not impossible. In my experience a lot of what it boils down to is just getting used to introducing yourself in front of people, and realisi...

Take every interview you can get. Facing this can help. Interviewing for jobs you don't care about can be a nice stepping stone. I always see people who track the hundreds of resumes they send out, ...