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I keep overthinking and it’s driving me mad

I keep overthinking and it’s driving me mad I have found in the last couple of years in particular I have started to overthink about my stutter and everything around it so much. I’m 17 now and I’m at ...

Do you ever get that awkward moment when someone inadvertently laughs at your stutter?

Do you ever get that awkward moment when someone inadvertently laughs at your stutter? I've had a few meetings at work where I stutter and some people laugh. Usually people who I'm meeting for the fir...

I'd have to concur, definitely. Just the simple of meeting and interacting with people on a daily basis is stressful enough, and even moreso in a professional setting like work. Socially, it's almo...

It's probably the worst thing about stuttering for me :(...

Hi, absolutely. The connection b/t stuttering and mental health isn't talked about enough. I read a study about this a couple days ago, and it was very interesting. Basically, people who stutter have ...

That small feeling in your stomach when you stutter, the same I get when I cringe at moments in shows like the Office or when I think about a thing I did wrong 10 years ago Aye you're over it now, yo...

Yeah, we're the same! And I got to a point where I would feel sick whenever I stuttered on a word and people other than family) noticed. It is hard, but I'm done living with this pressure....

I'm really sorry that your family is harsh about your stutter. Some people just don't get it. I also had some awful presentations in school - childhood & in college. In high school I had to stop a...

Where I'm from, stutterer is a lowbrow comedy relief stock character trope, played by people who do not stutter. And my family members are really harsh about my stutter, telling me to stop or people w...

I feel so bad..

I feel so bad.. Today on my way out of school, I went to a store to grab something to eat, I noticed that 2 people were talking about a subject that I know alot about and have experience in. All that ...

Stuttering It’s a anxiety issue by meditation n handling humiliating moments with maturity can make things …….....

I wanted to be a sailor, always have been a dream of mine. So I am now studying a maritime academy and I found out that I stutter so much that it's basically risking peoples life to ever put me in cha...

That’s a good mindset to have, but don’t you feel like inferior and indifferent after you block? Especially after blocking infront of someone you want to impress? I’m trying to learn to accept it beca...

i’m so over my stutter..

i’m so over my stutter.. i’ve been stuttering ever since i was born since it’s a genetic thing. my moms dad stutters, my mom stutters, i stutter, and my two siblings does. out of everyone, i have it t...

Does anyone else mainly just struggle with names?

Does anyone else mainly just struggle with names? My stutter is almost unnoticeable most of the time. A lot of the time most people don't believe me when I tell them and 99% of the time the only thing...

I'm scared this may become me at some point. It feels like every week or so my stutter makes me hate myself even more than before. I'm planning on getting speech therapy soon which I hope helps me tho...

My stutter is making me so damn depressed.

My stutter is making me so damn depressed. I'm 16 atm and I've stuttered ever since I was 5. I've never particularly been bullied by it which I find very strange, but I did have good friends who didnt...

I don’t think that being nervous doesn’t cause a stutter, but it does make it worse though. A lot of people laugh at me when I stutter, I even got bullied, laughed at, mocked at when I was young and ...

Don't be so hard on yourself, please be kinder to yourself. This could happen to any of us in this subreddit. This does not make you useless whatsoever....

Why does every day have to be a fight?

Why does every day have to be a fight? Life long stutterer and occasional lurker here trying to vent/rant. While I'm mostly dealing with my stutter pretty well, today it hit me hard. This week I star...