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I can relate, my stutter keeps me from going out and socializing so much. I'm late 30's, in great shape, successful, but for the life of me I can't put myself out there. My friends keep asking me ...

You can speak to people. Nobody is stopping you. Your embarrassment and your stutter are different things. Yes, stuttering can feel embarrassing, but embarrassment also fuels stuttering. So if you wa...

Blocks are bad because people think you're trying to avoid speaking....

I assure you that you don't sound as bad as you think you do. Most people I've disclosed my stutter to have said that they wouldn't have noticed my stutter if I didn't point it out....

This is terrible advice. Trying not to stutter is one of the main causes of stuttering....

yea but do you anticipate to stutter my mom always used to tell me that if i dont embrace it and always think about my stutter its gonna stick with me just relax your throat/vocal cords and speak casu...

I can’t read out loud for shit. Reading is actually the worse for me because when I have a block on a sound, I can’t get around it. You can’t give a word a different starter sound (wait you can! It’s ...

This is how i always thought of it; it’s like, they don’t know how to react and they think you’re doing it on purpose or something to that affect....

My father is a covert stutterer like me… thing is he never told me until I was fucking 25, that hurt. But besides him, no one else....

I hid my stutter for the majority of my life, it’s possible you’re the first person to noticeable stutter. My gene pool is especially fortunate: stutterers on both sides 😬...

I was afraid to start stuttering while in class

I was afraid to start stuttering while in class Am I the only one who was afraid to stutter at school and sat like a mouse? (school was hell af)...

Thank you. But I'm speaking from experience. I did the work and achieved fluency. I was fortunate to find therapy that was able to help me improve my fluency. I was fairly severe. * Never a fluent ...

The biggest hurdle in life of stutterers are these stuttering problem once they conquer it everything will be easy in there life. I consider myself to be a high IQ person who is really smart and kno...

This. Any way to make myself feel better. When I feel good, my speech is better. I started exercising, reading out loud (to myself), meditating and breathing, getting out in nature, trying to love mys...

Hi there. I'm a Solution Architect, and I'm in meetings most of the day, every day. I need to speak in meetings when called upon. Yes, I do block / stutter from time to time. I don't think anyo...

Im software developer and I'm changing jobs for the first time after spending 3 years with my first company. Here I didn't have to attend meetings if I didnt want to, expetially if they are in English...

Regarding “the ignorant people” - Most of my family works in mental health and special education. I’ve often hung out socially with seasoned SLPs who had no idea I was struggling w a debilitating st...

There are many slight PWS(I heard the majority of PWS are slight PWS) or PWS who like hiding their stuttering, also don't forget comfirmation bias......

I think you also have to factor in that some people can hide it well and others may avoid certain situations where they stutter....

Thanks for reading it. I wasn't directing it at your experience specifically but to the point that you made before about how sometimes avoidance is warranted and here in lies the paradox of concealmen...