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I agree that you never know, but I'd resist the urge to get our hopes up. I know we are all different in our stutters, but for me personally, accepting my speech and accepting who I am has been far mo...

Girls find it cute when you're like a kid, but as an adult you risk sounding less intelligent, even though you're probably a genius. The only way I got over it was being a loud mouth, and it may sou...

You've found what I consider the real "cure" as well. Once I stopped trying to fight it, I found freedom and my stutter no longer became a problem....

Thoughts on dysfluency as political action?

Thoughts on dysfluency as political action? Hey, so I've got a stutter and it used to be way, way worse. However, with a lot of speech therapy and time I did manage to get rid of it. And then, when I...

Hi, I'm in my thirties and I've been wrestling with my stammer for as long as I can remember. Today, it's gotten a lot better but it still surfaces from time to time. It's directly correlated with how...

I have a feeling I've seen this post before. Either way, I'll paraphrase the same thing I said before and add onto it: If celebrities, that say they stutter or used to stutter, don't stutter in publi...

I have good years and bad years for stuttering. Eventually I've learned to calm myself down over blocks and switch out words I block on. It does get better, eventually you stop caring so much about wh...

The thing that's helped me overcome my stutter is advice that's dressed up differently than "overcoming stuttering". Whenever I would research "overcoming stuttering" years ago (when I had a severe st...

Not thinking about it is impossible since it has such a huge impact on your life. Your best bet is to stop caring about your stuttering....

How to not think about stuttering

How to not think about stuttering I know stuttering isn't all the way mental, but I feel like what makes it worse is the anticipation of a future or present situation. What are ways to not think about...

Try to make it work to your advantage. Let your emotions flow and enjoy every word, one at a time....

1. You have/had a girlfriend, that's an achievement in itself 2. Why are you blaming your father? It's not his fault what-so-ever and I'm pretty sure at one point in his life he thought the same abou...

I think for stutterers like us, speech pathology isn't really the answer. I'd always speak fluently in therapy because I was very relaxed and didn't care what the teacher thought of me. I think some f...

How to not focus on stutterering as much?

How to not focus on stutterering as much? I focus too much on it. In fact times when I don't focus on it are when I'm most fluent. I want it to be a secondary thought, not something that occupies m...

Just find what works for you. That's what I did. Took a lot of humiliation and tears but I managed. I personally don't believe in never. I can and will be fully cured....

When I first went to speech therapy in Grade 6, the therapist told me there is no cure for stuttering. That killed me at the time, and I've been in your shoes and thought the exact same way. However...

To everyone in this sub, The negativity in this sub stems from the young demographic in this sub. I know I'm of the minority being in my thirties and when I first found this sub, I wrote a genuine o...

The "cure rejecting/Novelty trick hating" attitude of this subreddit has hurt me alot mentally and it should change.

The "cure rejecting/Novelty trick hating" attitude of this subreddit has hurt me alot mentally and it should change. I was always hopeful of at least knowing I can one day reduce it to a point where i...

You should definitely read this essay called "Message to a Stutterer" by Joseph Sheehan. It talks about stuttering openly.. which is basically trying to accept yourself as someone who stutters. The mo...

How to "Stutter without struggle"?

How to "Stutter without struggle"? I keep hearing this phrase from he Uber positive crowd on this sub. Whatever it is, it's helped out those individuals so I think I should give it a try too. So w...