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I used to be the same way and talking to people online via text made it so much easier for me to talk to people offline via words because now I know how conversation works. I have an amazing boyfriend...

I have a stutter, dating hasn't been an issue for me. Two things are very important! 1. Tell them you have a stutter. Nothing to be ashamed of. You don't wanna date someone who can't see past it. 2...

I think the best help, but also the most time consuming and hardest help is to accept it. to accept yourself WITH the stutter. seeing the enemy as a friend. many people have problems with accepting th...

Yeah, I just use the word advertise because that's what I've heard it called most in stuttering circles. But whatever works for you...

That's the goal but it's much easier said than done lol. Like a lot of other people I stutter much more when I'm advertising than in normal conversation...

I use it to "advertise", but I don't think of it as that. I think of it as informing. They don't know what it is so I'm just filling them on in what's going on. If they understand me when I tell them ...

It's very difficult, because you go on a first date and you can't form a connection because first dates are difficult and set up for people who are able to have comfortable and easy back and forth. Wh...

I never said it prevents anything in my life. I do not feel limited by my stutter. Although it’s mentally deteriorating, I don’t show it and that’s how I get by. If you stutter and you’re noticeably f...

Yeah, it happens so much to me that I generally just start the call by advertising my stutter. Advertising is weird at first but it gets easier with every phone call, and I find that my mind isn't tak...

I usually do too, but once I do I always feel like I should have used that opportunity to advertise. Idk it just feels wrong to someone who's working on accepting their stutter more. But if it works f...

In addition to what /u/Thorius04 already wrote, I can add these remarks: - First off, if we start substituting, we often need to start thinking of different phrasing or different sentences altogethe...

“I did X without stuttering!”

“I did X without stuttering!” I don’t think “doing X without stuttering “ should be applauded as an achievement. It reinforces the idea that stuttering is inherently bad and success = avoiding it. All...

Also, try to break bad habits. For example, i used to make a sound by joining my tongue to my lips right before trying to say a word. Another bad habit is moving my feet all over the place. I'm refusi...

Oh yeah I get it. I think it's because while talking to people that don't know about the stutter, we tend to hide and only utter words that we are comfortable with. The moment we disclose that crucia...

Yes, I know of that programme, but it's not like it's the foundational manual for stutter. Whatever is in those pages is not sacrosanct. Also, of course stutterers can improve. That's what we're both...

1.If you read Dave McGuire's 'Beyond Stuttering', sports analogies are everywhere in the book. He actively tells people to think about speech as some kind of sports. The McGuire programme, as you may ...

I would love to see some comparative research on how internalization (or more generally, models of understanding) affect the adherents, depending on what they're adhering to. My perspective has long ...

I don't think swimming is like stuttering. In fact, I don't think we should compare stuttering to any old activity we want to improve in. It's not an activity or skill we're talking about here. It's t...

Thanks for that well articulated reply, but I disagree with a lot of what you say. 1.Instead of 'don't think about stuttering', I think it's far more helpful if people with our condition divert thei...

I think the best way to rephrase what you wrote into something that makes sense for me is: "I pay a lot of attention to how I'm speaking while I'm speaking". This is, of course, rather natural for s...