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Silence is bliss. If you can get comfortable when silence is apparent in a conversation then you're set. No more awkward silences, no more pressure to keep talking....

this. self-disclosure can be super powerful. you have stated it, you are honest about it, and now if they have a problem with it it's 100% on them. of course, they very rarely do have a problem with i...

So I met my fiancé on an online app and we had a hookup. He took me to dinner and we watch med a movie after (god... we watched Starship Troopers as he had the dvd) and had a great time. I dunno, he...

How was the transition to meeting in person when you stutter was noticeable?...

That's probably the best option to be honest lol, was playing Overwatch with a friend last night and I felt so embarrassed whenever I started stuttering. I guess I gotta just whisper very loudly to av...

I agree with you. We should focus less on our speech. The most fluent times in my life is when I forget about my speech disability. I like books like The power of now. :) I totally believe we can bec...

I relate to you, when it happened with me, i just invented another name, hopping that no one knew me...

I have seriously considered making myself mute. Then I wouldnt have a problem anymore. Imagine the relief??! Stutter = gone....

I signed for a thing (free food gets me all the time) and it ended up being a telephone thing!

I signed for a thing (free food gets me all the time) and it ended up being a telephone thing! So I got an email from my school offering free dinner and an opportunity to thank donors. They had me at ...

Just be assured. Take your time to get your sentences out and don't try to hide your stutter. If you're confident in who you are, your personality will come through and stuttering is NOT part of your ...

I am such an extroverted person and I love talking to people even though sometimes I just can’t. That stereotype is true in some ways because my stammer has held me back and shaped me as a person to b...

Its true i think for a lot of people. I myself never felt this way because i am an extremely open and social person. Even with my stutter that didnt change. Did make it harder....

Yeah. Sometimes when I am with friends and we are talking, jokes are flowing, discussion happening and then I stutter for a long bit, instantly making everyone slightly uncomfortable, breaking the...

I'm moderate to severe, usually more on the severe side. I've reached a point where om a lot more comfortable with it now than ever before. I don't hide it. I mean I can't anyway, but I also don't wan...

Old? Im 32 and I dont consider myself old. 😂 I always break the ice in work, dating, new friends etc. Its not like you can hide it anyway so just be upfront about it. My whole work knows that I stut...

How to deal with embarrassing moments and/or setbacks and/or bad days

How to deal with embarrassing moments and/or setbacks and/or bad days A lot of people have trouble dealing with bad days, myself included. Its easy to be in a good headspace when things are going well...

Be kind to yourself. Dont beat yourself up for apologizing, it happens to everyone, even me Just this morning I was on a face time call with some of my classmates. I slept at 2:30 in the morning so we...

I used to say “sorry” each time I had blocks, which drained the last pieces of confidence and didn’t do any good whatsoever. Had to learn to stop doing that also. When I met my first recruiter ever a ...

Don't deny yourself the empathy of others. It's a social resource you can benefit from. It helps to talk to people about stuff, and this goes for stuttering too. - If you didn't stutter - if you wer...

I promise you, way to get better isn’t “oh it’s okay forget about it and don’t dwell on it”. It’s actually understanding that people will always be mean to you but you can’t let that affect the way y...