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commentr/StutterSep 17, 2025
1 points

For me, that was the real turning point. I wanted to feel as free with others as I do when I’m alone with myself. To get rid of shyness, shame, guilt, insecurity, and the constant worry about what oth...

Identity & DisabilityEmotional Experience
Authenticity vs. MaskingIdentity & Self-PerceptionAnxiety & Social Judgment+1 more
commentr/StutterSep 16, 2025
8 points

I'm a software engineer at a big tech company where talking is very much a common, daily requirement (much more than I would have thought so). I have always and still very much do live my life in fear...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Hiding & ConcealmentStress & Fight/FlightHelplessness & Agency+2 more
postr/StutterSep 14, 2025
18 points

How does that make sense???

How does that make sense??? So you're telling me that when I sing, read aloud, talk to myself or my pets, I don't stutter, perfect fluency. But when you add another human being in my vicinity, I simp...

Causes & VariabilityIdentity & Disability
Situational VariabilityAuthenticity vs. MaskingIdentity & Self-Perception
postr/StutterSep 14, 2025
23 points

Learning to Stay Calm While Speaking

Learning to Stay Calm While Speaking I’ve noticed something about myself that I think many people who stutter can also relate to: when I’m alone, I speak smoothly, without any hesitation, and my dicti...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityCoping & Advocacy
Overthinking & MonitoringSituational VariabilityMindset shift+1 more
commentr/StutterSep 13, 2025
1 points

This realization became the key to overcoming my stutter. Today I don’t stutter, although I did throughout my youth. Then I noticed that when we are alone with ourselves, we barely stutter, and I real...

Identity & DisabilityEmotional ExperienceCoping & Advocacy
Authenticity vs. MaskingAnxiety & Social JudgmentMindset shift
postr/StutterSep 11, 2025
6 points

When someone doesn't understand you, it might not be because you stutter

When someone doesn't understand you, it might not be because you stutter I've shared my life story here on reddit [like a year ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/stuttering/comments/1dpareo/comment/lav4fn0...

Identity & Disability
Authenticity vs. MaskingIdentity & Self-Perception
postr/stutteringSep 10, 2025
2 points

When someone doesn't understand you, it might not be because you stutter

When someone doesn't understand you, it might not be because you stutter I've shared my life story here on reddit [like a year ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/stuttering/comments/1dpareo/comment/lav4fn0...

Identity & Disability
Authenticity vs. MaskingIdentity & Self-Perception
postr/Stutter_remissionSep 10, 2025
1 points

Learn who you are by unlearning what you were taught

Learn who you are by unlearning what you were taught Unlearn the way you are currently controlling stuttering to become your former self (prior to stuttering onset). Your thoughts?...

Identity & Disability
Authenticity vs. Masking
postr/StutterSep 10, 2025
10 points

THE MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION

THE MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION Hi ,name's Wade. I'm 20 years old male ,been stuttering since i was 4, million dollar question is why I don't stutter when I talk to myself ?, I've met very few who stutter...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityIdentity & Disability
Experiential AssociationSituational VariabilityAuthenticity vs. Masking
commentr/Stutter_remissionSep 9, 2025
1 points

Additionally, I believe [perfectionism](https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Perfectionism%22+%22stuttering%22) (i.e., a cognitive distortion) and stuttering can be tied to an unwillingness to be vulnar...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Anticipating StutteringStress & Fight/FlightPropositionality & Weight+3 more
commentr/StutterSep 7, 2025
1 points

Thanks for the advice I really appreciate it 👍👍 although I would prefer to not tell ppl I stutter because I have gone through times in my life where it was hardly noticeable sort of ups and downs ma...

Identity & DisabilitySocial & Relationships
Authenticity vs. MaskingDisclosure & Telling Others
commentr/StutterSep 7, 2025
3 points

"I didn't bring it up in this post because it wasn't relevant, but I'm gay. Living in a country full of homophobia, I feel it's safer for me to only show half of who I really am. 😁...

Identity & Disability
Authenticity vs. Masking
commentr/Stutter_remissionSep 6, 2025
2 points

Amazing, great reply!! ! >*"clarification In the first point of your strategy you said speak without thinking that you're fluent, what do you by that? "* Hey! great question. What I mean by “don’t t...

Coping & AdvocacyIdentity & Disability
Fluency TechniquesMindfulness & BreathingAuthenticity vs. Masking
postr/StutterSep 5, 2025
1 points

How I Dealt with Stuttering: A Personal Experience

How I Dealt with Stuttering: A Personal Experience I started stuttering in childhood. By the age of 13, I realized that no one could help me: theIre were no books, no methods, no speech therapists, no...

Anticipation & AvoidanceIdentity & Disability
Hiding & ConcealmentAuthenticity vs. MaskingAcceptance & Pride
postr/StutterSep 4, 2025
6 points

I made a discovery…

I made a discovery… Today in school my whole class had to read something at the same time, and when I was reading it, I didn’t stutter a single time! I think because nobody could hear me I didn’t stut...

Causes & VariabilityIdentity & Disability
Situational VariabilityAuthenticity vs. Masking
postr/StutterSep 4, 2025
18 points

I interviewed an athlete yesterday using my second language

I interviewed an athlete yesterday using my second language I just started a sports reporter gig a couple of weeks ago. Mainly because i love writing, however i understand it is essential to speak and...

Causes & VariabilityEmotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Severity & FluctuationAnxiety & Social JudgmentAuthenticity vs. Masking+1 more
postr/StutterSep 4, 2025
10 points

Stuttering doesn't have to define you

Stuttering doesn't have to define you Stop letting your disability or disorder define you. That’s not strength, that’s surrender. Challenges are real. Nobody denies this. But the moment you let your c...

Coping & AdvocacyIdentity & Disability
Mindset shiftAuthenticity vs. MaskingAcceptance & Pride
commentr/StutterSep 3, 2025
1 points

We have all been there. I don’t do it anymore. I have trained my brain to immediately stop at a block and do what fluent speakers do. I spent my time and research on why don’t fluent speakers stutter....

Causes & VariabilityCoping & AdvocacyIdentity & Disability
Neurological & BrainMindset shiftAuthenticity vs. Masking+1 more
commentr/StutterSep 3, 2025
1 points

I have been watching your a very long time,.but one things is still the same, your comfort zone, i am just like you, i also stammered in few words, and wan to overcome this thing, as soon as possible ...

Identity & DisabilitySocial & Relationships
Authenticity vs. MaskingDisclosure & Telling Others
commentr/StutterSep 3, 2025
2 points

So, we can switch the things, we belong to the same community, we have same speech problem, it's better to share the things on vocal basis rather than texting because, texting keeps you , under confid...

Identity & DisabilitySocial & Relationships
Authenticity vs. MaskingDisclosure & Telling Others