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I have made a couple major choices to avoid opportunities because I feared failure. Not to say I’m not currently happy or a negative impact, but the regret is there. The biggest one is cancelling a co...

theyre both connected, I wouldnt worry about stuttering if stuttering didnt negatively effect my life...

What has negatively impacted you more, worrying about stuttering or stuttering itself?

What has negatively impacted you more, worrying about stuttering or stuttering itself? ...

It forced me to become more assertive and to recognize the ways that I hold back my own potential in life. As a means of recovery, it forced me to give up my people-pleasing tendencies. I think stut...

Please don’t do it. I felt this way in college where I even didn’t do my presentation for my English class and ended up with a C and was happy with it. The next English class I took, I was forced to d...

THIS BRO. The fear just consumes me man. I’m 20 years old too. My anxiety ab stuttering has gotten so bad that I ditch certain classes so I don’t have to speak out loud and everytime before I speak, I...

THIS is the stutter that I have the most problem with. After it happens I immediately just want to erase myself from existence...

Me. I can speak with perfect fluency when alone but can start having issues when alone but speaking infront of a mirror. Not “full-on” as with actual people, but ~ 30% of my normal disfluency. This is...

You too buddy. I hope you aren’t allowing the stutter to dictate your life....

You're young. Having a stutter is hard, but it's the WORST at your age. You have a right to feel the way you do. It's a hard way to come up. I've also had a stutter since I was a kid (the only one...

I can relate to this. Now I’m a senior, but I remember freshman orientations and other random stuff throughout the years that placed me in super similar situations. Like walking to class and some club...

Nah bro, this is not it. Don't let your stutter ruin your dreams - it's especially painful to read that you're genuinely passionate about physics, it's not even like you're at Uni for the sake of it. ...

IDK anything about PTSD, so I can't categorize my experience one way or another as it relates to PTSD. What I will say is that the negative experiences I had as a stutterer growing up have had a dist...

Please don't go through with it. Those guys are bullies and jerks. One day you'll be a successful physicist and they'll be still be jerks. If a person with a stammer (me) can argue in front of judge, ...

I’m sorry you’re going through such thing. University days were challenging for me as well and somehow you survive the shitty days. Think about what would hurt you more: quitting university and workin...

I have no idea who I would be if I didn't stutter. That's an imaginary person. My problems aren't only stuttering. I cannot "overcome" it - it is in my brain. I have been trying "overcome" it for 31 ...

And how would life be different if you didn’t stutter? A lot of our problems is internal, stuttering is just one external manifestation. Imagine your stuttering got cured and a couple years later you ...

Happy to hear that. I'm healthy too. Money isn't a problem for me. Yes, you can stutter and be "successful." But when I look inwards I just see a bottomless pit of trauma. I regard my own life as esse...

Something to think about is in how you describe it, it's not the stutter that holds you back but your thoughts and fears. Your stutter is not the main problem. You can do things while you stutter. You...

I feel so behind in everything. Stuttering has stolen my identity.

I feel so behind in everything. Stuttering has stolen my identity. Took a gap year off, for personal reasons. Now I wanna take another one off just because I’m scared my stuttering will ruin my whole ...