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I can’t even say my own name sometimes, and it’s destroying me inside

I can’t even say my own name sometimes, and it’s destroying me inside I don’t even know how to start this but… I just want to talk to people who really get this. I’ve had this speech block / stammer p...

My experience trying to talk to people while stuttering

My experience trying to talk to people while stuttering I'm 22 years old and I've never dated because I'm insecure about my stutter, I talked to a girl who was my childhood friend and she said that al...

i also stutter and started speech therapy more than a year ago. One thing my speech therapist recomended me was to just outright tell people you meet that you have a stutter. because often times when ...

Speech Impediment Tips and My Story

Speech Impediment Tips and My Story I am currently a nineteen year old college student. I was not born a stutterer, so my cause and experience may not resonate with others here. But I will still share...

I wouldn't bring it up, let him bring it up. And he is doing mental gymnastics constantly every minute of everyday just to try to speak clearly. He will bring it up eventually, you have to give him so...

Honestly, it all depends on the day and I’m feeling nervous or anxious more anxious. Some days my speech is fluid and I think “wow “ then others I’m like “ damnn” 🤣🤣where I have blocking or I get st...

Stutter on purpose.

Stutter on purpose. If i try and stutter, i can't, not convincingly. I wouldn't get the part! Why would i even consider it, some may ask? It's to make it something i have control over; to make fun of,...

I get it , you don't want to be a burden ,which is a reasonable feeling, but isolating yourself? You're only gonna make it way worse than it is , cuz I've been through this , and I've isolated myself ...

There is no easy answer. My suggestion is to talk about it so he does not have to try so hard to hide it. The more he tries to hide it the more stress will build up and most likely his stuttering will...

Fr fr fr I can't do it anymore, the best solution is to isolate myself

Fr fr fr I can't do it anymore, the best solution is to isolate myself Hate when people starts to say encouraging words to motivate me thinking they help me build confidence this way (yeah thanks for ...

I just found this sub a few days ago and it broke my heart when I realized that many of us cannot even speak our own names. I stutter moderately but I’ve always been fluent with the consonant that my ...

1) Yes we 100% know when we're stuttering. In fact most of us know when we start a sentence which word we are going to stutter on. If your friend looks like she's having a seizure, it's because she's ...

Fear of traveling to non English speaking countries

Fear of traveling to non English speaking countries If y’all have dealt with this fear and gotten through/over it, I’d love some advice. Not only am I speaking a foreign language, but I’m dis-fluent. ...

You are looking at the path I went on. It's unconventional but the experts have proven to us that conventional doesn't work with stuttering. The "experts" are guessing, they know only from observation...

I can feel it happening before I start speaking. A lot of times I will use language/words to rephrase what I wanted to say so I don't stutter while saying it. If I'm on a zoom call and stutter, I ca...

I find sometimes its the secondary behaviors that turn people off rather than the stutter itself. In my case I used to have hard blocks and bad secondary behaviors like lack of eye contact, face wrenc...

Learn to live !

Learn to live ! I hope everyone can see this post. I am a guy and i am one of you. I have been stuttering all my life and you should know how much I suffered from that. People bullied me, people laugh...

Hey first of all thank you so much for asking so respectfully and wanting to know more about stuttering rather than just choosing to be ignorant. Stuttering in general is essentially just a different ...

I’m definitely just spectating, sometimes I feel like I’m a viewer watching the movie of other people’s lives and in my dreams it’s the same. I cannot escape my stutter as I stutter in my dreams too. ...

I feel this way, but I think it's more to do with the fact that I spend a lot of my time watching YouTube than stuttering...