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I had to be nerfed somehow Does anyone sometimes feel like this? Im tall, handsome,funny, play soccer/football for my national team, straight As in school, not to sound cringey but im popular amongst...

Agree with lots of the points below, and another point to add… she may just not be emotionally and mentally ready to try and improve her stutter. From my personal experience and watching my younger si...

Agree, there is no reason at all you should pursue the things you want in life. Yes a stutter can be an obstacle at times, but it doesn’t define you and you are not going to let it hold you back. Th...

It may be difficult, but you should never let your stutter hold you back. If you don't pursue the career, you will regret that decision. The only thing to do is go for it....

The great thing about us is that we have real experience, we know what it’s like and that gives us that upper hand in fighting for others. The fact you are able to go out and be willing to fight for o...

Hope and optimism are great, but I’d think some people would want to know there are ways to directly address the dysfluency that are not cures, that can directly positively impact a PWS sooner....

I'm an SLP who worked at a stuttering camp for a summer (and specialize in stuttering the rest of the time). This observation from camp has always stuck with me. These are generalizations, there were ...

I'm glad I was able to relieve you of some anxiety. I began stuttering when I was 3, and I'm 23 right now. I've suspected that some traumatic moments had caused it, but the fact it turned out to be ne...

I don't offer just to "Iwait". I want to instill HOPE, i.e. optimism in people's minds. As for your Buddhism experience- it's not a cure. for stuttering. It helps to fight anxiety......

I go to the gym and take the classes. I met a lot of my friends that way! Do i stutter in front of them? Yes. Do they car? No. I’m pretty extraverted which helps, but honestly most people are super ni...

Like many of us in this group, I’ve been there. Being unable to communicate is completely frustrating, made worse because we don’t have a visible disability and some people think we are just anxious o...

Yes she is fully in charge of if she goes to speech therapy. She loves her speech therapist and looks forward to it. But I check in every 6 months to make sure she still wants to go. Also, at this poi...

Thanks so much for your comment. I do want to add that it is fully her choice to go to speech therapy. She has a wonderful relationship with her and looks forward to going. There were many years where...

Same age, same position just a different mindset, what I did was practice, practice and practice. I was so much angry on my situation but I don't wanna waste my life regretting so I choosed working fo...

Stuttering feels so bad because we try to avoid stuttering at all cost, but as we’ve experienced, the more your try to resist stuttering, the worse it gets. This is a vicious cycle that you want to co...

As someone who went to speech therapists for a long time and was forced either by parents or school administration it was very difficult to find the motivation to want to go especially when they taugh...

I am 20 and throughout the years have had countless people say to me "why don't you just do [insert thing that causes me to not stutter] all the time?" And the reason that I don't is extremely difficu...

No need to wait for technology! In fact, you can start this very minute, but it’s going to require very uncomfortable work Also, while i go to a Buddhist meditation temple regularly, that is unlik...

Thank you so much for all this information. It is so helpful. I really appreciate it and it’s true, she really does well when she is out somewhere new or in nature. I will do that ❤️...

While there is hope with upcoming technological advances as V R or Elon Mask experimental bionic technology, I recommend read and try philosophical approach ( as Stoicism eg) and/or Buddhism. It hel...