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Thanks for your insight! I should’ve stated that I am not trying to hide my stutter nor am I ashamed of it. I just really hate the way blocks feel (I have a hernia in my chest from GI issues and bad b...

That's the best you came up with? You're as bad at this as you are at talking. Everything you worry people think when you stutter is true. They all laugh at you behind your back....

Works great until people don’t even know you stutter until one day when you inevitably have a bad block. That’s when it gets awkward. That used to happen to me in my covert days. Super stressful tbh. ...

I did this during a college presentation, and even though a few people still laughed a bit (at least they tried to hide it), it felt better than a previous experience where I hadn't disclosed it and s...

See im the opposite of this. Growing up as a child to teenager i never had a real stuttering issue. Mines was always mild until that one day when i was around 18 or 17 when a friend made a joke about ...

I’m in a glass box and everyone I’ve ever known and everyone I’ll ever come in contact with is surrounding the glass box. I can see and *hear* what everyone is saying. I see them all mingling with e...

When I was s kid I think the shame of going during school actually motivated me to do whatever I could to stop....

I am in my mid 30 now and still remember that moments. Still have nightmares sometimes. I guess is normal in people that stutter. It got better with time but may be just in my case....

I have ptsd or some kind of trauma from that. I get nightmares about times my teacher told me to read or some kind of presentation. I hear people laughing and calling me stupid or calling me retarde...

Hell yes. I remember acting like I was trying to sound the word out when I stuttered. Very cringe....

We are our own worst critics. That’s for everybody not just people who stutter....

Sometimes I just think about what it would be like to talk freely without worry and exhaustion and how enjoyable my life would be. It’s like people don’t really understand how blessed they are, but I ...

This is exactly my life. And yes, I am completely exhausted. I come home everyday feeling like I’ve been practically physically assaulted. Feels impossible to actually get close to people living like ...

You're not ridiculous for feeling that way, when it is less severe I often wonder whether is was ever actually 'bad', until it gets worse then I feel even more like a twat for thinking that in the fir...

I don't think it's a direct correlation. But I believe there is a correlation for many of us. I've said it numerous times, stuttering can really do a number on one's self esteem. For those of us that...

sorry you’re dealing w this 😐 unfortunately, some ppl do and say hurtful things (usually from a place of insecurity and unhealed traumas). know those behaviors are a reflection of him and not you, a...

POEM “proud to stutter”

POEM “proud to stutter” i’m proud to stutter it wasn’t always this way. stuttering was a consistent and major source of shame for most of my life. i hated it and went to great lengths to hide it. i o...

Yea, I think it's mostly because I see my own face in video calls/work meetings. It's just like a hit to my ego seeing myself struggle so much to string together an elementary sentence. Whereas other ...

How do you accept the ugliness of blocking?

How do you accept the ugliness of blocking? I understand the title can seem a bit harsh for those who may feel offended, but as someone who has stuttered all my life and deal/dealt with severe blocks ...

Living with a stutter

Living with a stutter I'm glad I found this group because my stutter has been eating at me a lot lately, people have asked if I was drunk they think I'm trying to play some kind of game with them and ...