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Just Another Rant Anyone else feel like life would be a whole lot better if you could either just be completely fluent or lose the ability to speak altogether. I feel like it would be so much less of ...

Oh yes, the only biggest hurdle of my life is this! It seems like I will never come out of this!...

I definitely get this. I’ve stuttered since I was in 4th grade. Never had a shred of self confidence since. I never spoke up in school and I never made new friends. It’s ruined my self confidence ...

Do ya'll think life would have been better if we didn't stammer?

Do ya'll think life would have been better if we didn't stammer? I mean, obvious answers aside, I feel like my stutter significantly reduced my self-esteem and confidence in high school which in turn ...

I hope you don't mind if I vent here, there's not much you can do for me. My schizophrenia destroyed my career prospects and got me in legal trouble so now I'm a felon. So on top of the fact that it's...

My best advice would be to not shut yourself in, like I did. I had a couple traumatic public harassments so I just kinda avoided interactions whenever I could. But that’s the last thing you want to do...

I didn't join university after college because there's alot of public speaking involved. Now i strongly believe that was very wrong choice and i suffer everyday because of that. Stephen hawking couldn...

I constantly feel as if I’m not living the life I’m supposed to. I feel like I could conquer the world if only I could talk right. I could be a surgeon, a pilot, a lawyer. Instead I limit myself and t...

You can ‘overcome’ a stutter but it’s easily said then done...

Don’t get me wrong any other person I would refuse to take this kind of disrespect, but we were able to connect emotionally so quickly that I felt that I was obligated to keep trying to see it through...

well, on of my dream medical school rejected me because of my stutter and now I do not know whether I am compatible or not....

Thank you for this really just showed me a new prescriptive. I know my stutter won’t hold me back in life but I just feel like If I didn’t have my stutter life would be so much easier. I’m gonna try a...

I mean... life's hard and life's also nice and all sorts of things. A myopic approach to stutter serves no purpose. It's just sadness reinforced. The _real_ challenge is to make things work despite t...

It’s going to be hell for her. This may come off as fucked up, but don’t tell her that it’s “gonna be ok”, because it won’t. Life is gonna be hell for her. My apologies if I came off as rude....

I'd recommend you to focus on things you can control. Having an stutter sucks, but it may suck way less if you spend your energy on things under your control, some examples: * You can't control how o...

I can't stop the destructive thoughts because in my mind they aren't delusional. If I was born without my stutter my life would be so much fucking better. What do you suggest I do?...

It's not so much had badly you stutter, but how badly its affecting you. If your stutter is taking happiness away from you, why not work on it ?...

this is what scares me. no matter what I read, how much I read, it is never enough. I'm still seen as a weaker candidate among the others...

Being seen as ignorant just because I stutter. This was said by a professor during high school. Other professor thought that I was faking my stutter only to have high grades (D) without study....

I feel this. Specifically being afraid to have children because it will be more responsibility and necessary times to speak. I also worry about my stuttering being passed down to them. I don't wan...