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I like your first point, but how do you gain self esteem when you're ashamed and trying to disidentify yourself with a part that is very much part of you? The shame comes in large part from this disas...
How do severe stutterers even get a girlfriend?
How do severe stutterers even get a girlfriend? I'm 28 now, and all of my life I've been harshly rejected due to my crippling stutter, looks, and awkwardness. How does one even go about changing it at...
I‘ve been fighting for a long time, but can‘t take it anymore.
I‘ve been fighting for a long time, but can‘t take it anymore. I‘m 27 years old and I have been stuttering since my „hello-world“. As I grew up, it affected my self-esteem and made me become an antis...
Idk how to title this
Idk how to title this In elementary school I got made fun of and bullied for my stutter which was not ok, but when I started middle school everyone finds it “cute” and they wished they had a stutter. ...
Wasted potential
Wasted potential My relatives ask me to teach their children They often tell me that i teach better than their teachers i don’t know how to feel about that all the knowledge that is wasted on a person...
A question.
A question. This isn't a question meant to make anyone sad or anything and I'm not doing research, I'm just genuinely curious; did any of you go through school without being bullied? Is it even possib...
My boss and HR manager mentioned my stutter to me and offered me support
My boss and HR manager mentioned my stutter to me and offered me support Hi all, I work in a big firm and despite my stutter I have acquired a successful carrier. My work requires a lot of communica...
Late to the thread but I can’t stress this enough to OP. I stutter and telling my parents my true feelings about how it made me feel didn’t happen until I was 24. It was a combination of shame and p...
Thank you. Yes that seems to be the general consensus. Love, support, attention and a peaceful home seems to be important and we didn't wait for him to stutter to try to give him all that. Hopefully i...
How old was your child when you took her to a speech therapist ? Has it improved her stutter or at least her outlook on stuttering ? That's one of the things I'm most afraid of is not the stutter ...
Feeling very down
Feeling very down How do I deal with being laughed at when I finished reading in college. I even felt like I didn’t read that bad compared to other times, but since I had people chuckling quietly I gu...
Had to read out loud ..feeling a bit down about it
Had to read out loud ..feeling a bit down about it So yah.. I had to read something out loud.. to around 45 people. It was for some small event. The thing I had to read was maybe 2-3 lines long. I pra...
PODCAST: stutter proudly
PODCAST: stutter proudly hello wonderful people excited to announce a new podcast called *stutter proudly* on the first episode, i recite a poem i wrote on stuttering, called "proud to stutter" (tex...
This is a common problem for me, and I think most people who stutter. I am 36 so around the same age and also an introvert due to my stuttering. Sometimes I might just tell the person right off the ...
If you do go to a speech therapist, make sure to find one who specializes in stuttering and who knows how to assess and work through the feelings associated and not just fluency....
It sucks. It can be so hard. Especially at your age. Do you have *anyone* in your life that you can talk to? Someone that doesn't mock or hurt you? If so, put yourself out there. Trust that person. L...
At that age it’s kind of normal for kids to stutter, but take this from someone that grew up going to different speech therapists. I think they worked to some degree, but it made more self-conscious a...
As I've grown older, I tend to think of my speech/stuttering as more of a disability. It makes me feel better, like this is something bigger than me, that has been outside of my control. I still work ...
Stuttering IS a disability! I suffer everyday, I work as a cashier at a grocery store and I try my best but it's really embarrassing. How does one get disability for their stuttering ? My blocks are r...
Advice please
Advice please My bf made fun of my stutter today as we were being intimate. It really hurt my feelings. I started crying and wanted to immediately go home. I don’t feel safe around him anymore. Am I b...