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It’s definitely super tough. My speech has gotten a lot better over years but I still feel the same anxiety in terms of joining conversations or saying exactly what I want to say (sometimes I’ll just ...

This is an excellent response! I want to double down on the suggestion to be open and up front about your stutter as soon as possible in life. Maybe you already are but I was ‘covert’ or attempted t...

I know this might be a controversial response, but in a higher education setting especially as a first year student you might consider incorporating your stutter into the presentation. Whether it be ...

Thank you so much! I’m currently a freshman. I really should start thinking like that. ( no one gives a shit if I stutter or not ). I’ve gotten a bit more comfortable ordering food at chipotle or at m...

I think the best advice after almost four years in college is that nobody really gives a shit about your presentation besides the professor (no offense), and they won't deduct points for stuttering. P...

I have an alternative idea that might help you get through this and could maybe be therapeutic in a way: what if your "drawing about you" had to do with your stuttering? So you go up and present on ho...

Hey -- I'm a bit older than you (31), I've been married for a little over two years, and I'm a bona fide stutterer. ​ I've always had an innate feeling that I wanted to be with someone, ...

Phone calls can go either way for me depending on my fluency at the moment. Along my journey from severe to some people who know me don’t believe me that I have a stutter, I approached the phone as a...

I'm afraid I'm going to have to call bullshit on that one - in the most amicable way I can do it. :) I work in an office environment, and I communicate daily with loads of people. Some of the stuff I...

I've been able to do this more an more and it really does help. It's like okay, I'm pretty sure I might stutter but whatever, most people know already anyway, and some other people don't but I guess ...

I’m not sure I have much advice that’s not cliche or something most stutterers have heard 100 times before. Take it day by day. If you had a bad day one day don’t let negative thoughts from it ruin y...

You can accept these things for your own case, but don't go spreading them as universal. _Especially_ don't push the notion that we should _limit_ ourselves. That's all. :)...

This. Speaking well is different from communicating well. If you distract yourself from the listener your communication may suffer (listening skills, body language etc) ...

Let me lay it out like this...   >I find it hard to speak, so I want to stop speaking. - This, I believe, is a misunderstanding. Let's rephrase it: - >I find it hard to speak **wi...

I wish I wasn't so aware of my stutter. The more aware I am, the more it seems to inhibit me. The rare times I'm able to talk and not notice it, everything is much easier. ...

It helps to own your stutter which in the long term helps more than substitution. ...

This is interesting... what do you mean when you say you can’t hear it? Do you notice when you stutter? If not, did you used to notice? I’m way more open and desensitized to it now than i was years a...

Yeah, stutter's weird. we don't know quite how it comes about yet. But it's neat that we tend to be able to tell when it's about to happen. Of course, we could use that to avoid the problematic word,...

Sometimes when I talk to people I tell them beforehand that I have a stutter, and then it becomes much easier to talk to them. This depends on how severe you stutter is.....I can't say if it helps eve...

First impressions? I do what I do and see what comes of it. Really, there's no assurance for me there. I don't worry about controlling it, because it is what it is. Or at least, I try not to worry. Th...