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I think if I make a joke and others laugh that’s fine! But when he actively says “I feel bad but I make fun of him for his stutter” that makes me feel like he won’t accept me for me and so I have to h...

Both. Here I mean more psychotherapy. Stuttering creates a lot of baggage (as OP confirms). I just did SO MUCH BETTER by dealing with that baggage head on. Therapy was a huge part of helping me do...

All the time! My name is three syllables. i would get it right the first time then I would be asked to repeat it. and stutter on every syllable. being asked to repeat something was my biggest fear. ...

That happened to me for years, instant stress and frustration. I don't have any advice you haven't heard before...all I suggest is after it happens try to let go of stress/frustration/embarrassment e...

Rejected due to stutter?

Rejected due to stutter? I've been getting rejections from colleges so far. I have pretty good ecs, stats and essays. I based my main common app essay on my stutter and how it has shaped me into a per...

Dude. You're overthinking this and taking it way out of proportion. The fuck did I even just read. Even in my darkest stuttering times, I've never given it this much thought. Holly shit did this c...

I had a presentations where I stuttered horribly, and I heard some of my classmates laugh. I suffered through the rest of my presentation. It was on a pretty technical topic, so there were a lot of lo...

I really do know how you feel. I think over the pandemic my social anxiety got a lot worse, because I wasn't socializing or seeing as many people as I'm used to, so there was more pressure to perform ...

Feeling constant dread

Feeling constant dread Recently I’ve even hung up on saying my name, my social anxiety has gotten so much worse, I always fear going out the house and ending up in a moment where I have to say my name...

Your thoughts perfectly describe me at 15. I think it's probably normal to feel that way at your age. I'll caution you though, the longer you hold on to the woe is me attitude, the harder it is to ...

Does anyone try to mask their stutter?

Does anyone try to mask their stutter? I'm 15 and I suffer from stuttering, had trouble with it since I was about 10, I had it when I was 5 but it went away for a couple years and than it came back wh...

I just wrote this in another comment but cut/paste it bc I was looking for a better place for it! *“Stutter” is not a great descriptive word for this reason - some people have llllllots of repetition...

You said: ""I'm not nervous or afraid, I just have a stutter that sometimes comes up". " In my opinion, by saying 'I have a stutter that sometimes come up' you create a condition to expect a stutter e...

My mom literally says this to me every day, and if I stutter too much she’ll get angry at me…...

Not to speak for the other person, but language like "You don't have to be a severe stutterer.", can be very discouraging. I was a very severe stutterer, and I probably still qualify as severe toda...

I wholeheartedly disagree and I think this is terrible advice for anyone with a stutter. You have no idea if someone else doesnt have to be a severe stutterer. Some people will always be severe s...

Sorry, I didn't mean to sound like I was looking down on anybody. And I certainly didn't mean to imply a stutter is 'ignorable'. I was only trying to convey the difference it made in my life when I st...

Hi new here

Hi new here Definitely not new to stuttering been having It all of my life. Im 37 and it's not as bad now but I definitely still suffer from it. I just want to die everytime I do it, like just crawl u...

I understand how you feel. For me, it's hard to realize that the problem isn't how we talk, it's how people react to the way we talk. I've been laughed at by people of all ages. I'm 41F and it still h...

Growing up to a father that would point to my speech every time I was fluent and say I wasn't a stutterer but it was just my overthinking that made it worse ranks up there. He was well-intentioned, b...