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I tell people almost the exact same thing. My stutter only got better once I started meds and quit giving a fuck about what other people thought about it. I wake up everyday and still can’t believe...

I usually stutter with the letter “I”. It would be so difficult to get it out that I would open my mouth to speak then nothing would come out, cause I didn’t want to embarrass myself by stuttering. Th...

I’m not a cashier specifically, but I learned how to use them last year because I felt a little bad when they would call for help and there was no one else to run up. I can say practiced phrases like ...

This is the absolute foundation of overcoming stuttering. 👇👇⁣ ⁣ Without this I wouldn't be speaking freely and effortlessly for the last 3 years. 👇⁣ ⁣ 💧 Learning to not resist your stutter. ⁣ ⁣ We...

This sort of question actually illustrates just how impactful stuttering can be to one's psyche and mental health. The massive desperation that some people who stutter feel. And if this subreddit is a...

What you’re doing is incredibly brave and so important. As Stutters we tend to live our lives in the shadows. We’re afraid tho have that conversation or ask that person out. Shame, embarrassment, se...

That's what happened to me years ago when I started university. I started to miss lectures, avoid social contact etc. Eventually I surrendered and left university and started telematic studies in othe...

My old account got banned for some reason. You work for kohl’s as a cashier too? “Kohl’s” And “card” are both harsh words but sometimes I just stutter leading up before I say it and then don’t stutter...

Challenging yourself

Challenging yourself I (30M) stutter. I have since I was 5 years old. I've never been okay with it. It's always been hard, frustrating. I've felt left out, incompetent, like life isn't worth living, ...

I practice everything beforehand to get the muscle memory down. I also record VO as a part of my job. When I was in speech therapy as a kid, I would read into a microphone & listen to it back with...

Yeah, this is the reason why I avoid talking as much as I can while in public, I'm way too scared of being mocked ☹️ just recently when I was shopping my dad called me and asked me if he should pick m...

I’m a young adult, stuttered all my life. It was worst when I was a little kid, but a few years of speech therapy helped out a lot. Now I can go periods of time that are essentially stutter-free, othe...

My miracle was finding out and then obtaining the Edinburgh Masker. This is a wonderful speech prosthetic that enables most of us who stutter to speak fluently. It is wonderful. It changed my life....

I’ve known 3 mature SLP’s socially and zero of them knew I suffered from a sometimes debilitating covert stutter. I’m willing to bet that most lay people have no idea that your repetitions or seconda...

Lying and Dishonesty

Lying and Dishonesty I never wanted to lie but if the choice was to hide the stutter then I'd lie all day, regardless of the trouble it got me in. Looking back I became a skillful liar which led to d...

Nice, if I can relate to this, i started with 21-22y , so it took me 4 years, but now I can say that I am 97% free of stuttering, it happens sometimes, but its more like i pause for 0.5s in order to s...

"Why should I plan my words? I know what I want to say I just talk and the words come." Exactly, we are focusing so much on 'how we speak' and predicting stuttering, that we have little processing pow...

"Fluent" speakers also have many disfluencies in their speech but they can still convey their message & they don't care even if they struggle with some words. They usually also don't plan the...

I'm 59, been stuttering all my life to, and been totally embarrassed by it . I've spent a lifetime hiding from it, not been able to be the person I know I really could of been, been stuck in dead ...

I stopped having crushes on women and that helped me because in my mind she just a normal woman and I just talk to them like any other person it was all in my mind for me....