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Do you mask your stutter? How do you hide your stutter?

Do you mask your stutter? How do you hide your stutter? I would only say words and phrases that I know I could say without stuttering. Even if the words/phrases are not relevant to a conversation. If ...

Sometimes I just wanna stop mid sentence and fade away and be alone coz I know I'm gonna stutter or have blocks and don't have any energy or motivation left for it. Fortunately this doesn't happen oft...

Stuttering for me is exhausting mentally and physically. I used to be VERY quiet not wanting to talk but I push myself to do it and practice my skills. it’s an everyday struggle 😭...

Yup, I've definitely been there. Talking to some people is exhausting sometimes. I'd rather just keep my mouth shut at times, and that's okay, you're allowed to do that. You don't have to engage in co...

You can take this with a grain of salt since I'm still young and it's just my own experience. I'm homeschooled and I live on a farm and have a lot of unusual interests and hobbies and don't care at al...

I wish we didn’t get hung up on, but unfortunately it comes with the territory. I’ve been hung up on several times, hopefully always because they think the call dropped. And sadly, I’m of the belief...

> I find that just forgetting about it helps I have a few questions: "I find that just forgetting about it helps" Forget what exactly? Possible answer: "don't think about stuttering" Don't think ...

Oh my god I've been hung up on so many times, people will often think their connection just cut out or something. Or socially innept people just not knowing how to deal with someone who stutters. I ...

For ages I've avoided speaking because I knew I will stutter but for some reason for the past 3 weeks I just didn't care anymore about my stutter, it held me back mentally way more then physically I j...

I understand that blocking for 5 seconds might be a lot for you. It is for some, for others it it not. I have myself blocked in front of many people, during large lectures, presentations etc. in the m...

I've never had a problem. Certain countries might be more relaxed than others, but they see a ton of different kinds of people. Just do your best and don't stress too much....

Seek out quality therapy to help you work on expressing your charismatic self. Absent of that you're going to have to push yourself out of your comfort zone and face your fears....

Yeah I understand that side of things. I used to avoid social situations and never disclose that I had a speech impediment. Over the years I’ve been avoiding less and disclosing more. Acceptance for m...

Stay at home and get a personal assistant to do all the verbal interaction. Seriously though, acceptance that sometimes things will be uncomfortable is the only to way to deal with that discomfort. R...

Avoiding interactions itself is mentally exhausting. That's why I stopped caring about it. Just let it happen because you can't run away anyways lol...

How do you avoid uncomfortable interactions?

How do you avoid uncomfortable interactions? Hey everyone, I've been thinking about something and it's been weighing on me. My stutter has been great this past year to the point where most of my cowor...

What I recommend you to do to work on your hexagon is when you have positive or negative emotions, note which part of the hexagon they relate to. If you go to talk with the waitress but you stutter ...

When I went to University, I made sure to act as if I was confident, smiling constantly and look 'cool and approachable' without actually speaking. If I did this, then classmates behaved very nicely a...

Even I was so scared when I joined my university because I was stuttering a lot ever since my visa interview. It got so bad that I wasn't even able to get my point across compared to just stuttering a...

"what would happen if we completely forgot about stutter" To answer your question, the goal of completely forgetting stuttering is to eliminate our stutter triggers. A psychologist (or any psychology...