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I too spent most of my 1st sem in my room, the stutter reduced quite a bit in the starting due to the excitement of college life ig, and I was able to make a few friends within the first weeks itself,...

Give the teachers in the classes where you give presentations a heads up. I got a few bad grades because I didn't do that 🙄 Maybe practice with friends or family. You'll get through. I give presentat...

I have been through this nightmare a few years back. If it is too embarassing for you, talk to the professors to give the presentation only in front of them or see if they are okay with you skipping i...

I hate my stutter

I hate my stutter I have being stuttering since I was around 4-5 and I have always tried to hide my stuttering because I feel like people will judge, won’t want to talk to me and get frustrated at me....

During my college days the professor would take roll call for attendance and I would sometimes not be able to say “present” in time and would be marked absent. So I can relate to these type of situati...

I'm very worried about college

I'm very worried about college I feel so worried about college because I have a severe stutter and especially the presentations because in my country we don't do presentations until college ,Can those...

She actually really enjoys her speech and has said one technique in particular has helped (this was during a project at school where she had to share research aloud, so her and therapist worked togeth...

My take is that she will start to care when she gets to college and she has to do presentations. She thinks that i won't be an issue as she gets older. Well, hopefully she outgrows it in her teens....

Been at uni for 4 years now and the first day of class is always the worst. I always stutter my way through it, and then after class I would always go up to the professor and let them know about my st...

I'm using voice to text here so I hope this comes through okay but I am a college professor* and I have had a few students in my classes who have stuttered and it is Beyond unconscionable that he woul...

Yeah report this, don’t tolerate disrespect as I did in college. Since I participated a lot in classes I always ran into professors that would feel the need to attack my stuttering. I was often told t...

Hi. I had the same issue in uni - public speaking and reading were a nightmare for me (I was getting a bachelor degree in Translation Studies (exactly that)). Remember: most of people concentrate on t...

Dont be too hard on yourself. It’s easier to say in retrospect, but in the moment I know the feeling is agonizing. My first introduction was one of the worst stutter filled intros ever. As you settle ...

Ruined my first day at college

Ruined my first day at college I have a severe stutter. I can speak fluently in my mind but struggle in front of strangers or in public. Today was my first day at college, and during the first lecture...

38 yo father here. I've been a stutter since i can remember, i have 4 kids (9, 8, 6 and 5) Beyond stutter, i started balding at 22. I learned that that's just life. I have way more problems right no...

I’m worried about university too, when I did orientation people just looked at me strange because I was having a hard time saying my name (starts with D) so my mom said it for me. The ice breakers mad...

Hello everyone, I have a bit of a stuttering problem. I can speak fluently with my family and friends and even with others when I feel comfortable. But when it comes to speaking in class, during presentations or even with shopkeepers, I tend to stutter. Has anyone else experienced this?

Hello everyone, I have a bit of a stuttering problem. I can speak fluently with my family and friends and even with others when I feel comfortable. But when it comes to speaking in class, during prese...

Good for you because I just dropped out, I've had the worst time of my life at school and university wasn't any different, and universities in my country require french which there was no way in hell ...

Well I did all my presentations and oral exams even if i stuttered my teachers were very understanding and wouldn’t even stutter much. I think that getting so much rejections during interviews have wo...

Enjoy the journey at uni and congratulations on engaging in such a positive way with what could have been an overwhelming environment. Be relentlessly authentic and five words I found during my own un...