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I too have had this same experience, I am a life long stutterer. I'm 29 now and have come to accept it a little bit. I mostly get treated like I am stupid at work, because everybody automatically assu...

I was 14, working my first job as a busboy. I was asking a man if he wanted coffee, and I blocked like REALLY hard. He looked at me wide-eyed and bursted out laughing. He jokingly said he wanted a wor...

This has really hit me, we really are the same. Sadly fate isnt on our side. Why does such bullshit always happen. Why is it always the things that we love to do? Why do they backfire? I feel you so m...

I think it started wayyy back in elementary school for me. I had a very strict home-room teacher who'd go ballistic over anyone talking in her class, so I developed this habit of not talking at all, a...

Someone in middle school said to me I sound like an AK-47 (automatic rifle) trying to pronounce my name in the first day. That was years ago, before school shootings became a trend....

I was working in the drive thru and I stuttered taking telling this man his total and they busted out laughed and told me I need to learn to talk. Honestly I have countless stories like that, being fr...

Now ive grown to accept my stutter. And if anyone has anything bad to say about it, i wont be afraid to tell them off lmao. My elementary through high school years, were ROUGH though. I had a hard tim...

I normally have blocks when I say my name and one time when I went to this party and everyone was introducing themselves (my nightmare) this girl approached me and I had a block, she then proceeded to...

Oh man. I received a lot of comments. Some were mean-spirited. A “friend” when i was younger said, “WHATS WRONG WITH YOU? SPIT IT OUT!” A grown adult asked me once “Did you forget how to speak?”in a m...

What’s the meanest thing someone said to you as a stutterer?

What’s the meanest thing someone said to you as a stutterer? -A “friend” once said to me in a “jokey” way “I’m not going to hangout with you because I don’t wanna develop a stutter”...

True! I was taught a breathing exercise and it helped me not stutter as often but it was still unnatural and I’m getting more weird looks as ever🙁 stuttering really sucks!!!!...

Don't be sorry! having been a genuine guinea pig I had about 4 SLP interns per year moderated by a very unpleasant woman who's name is now emblazon on the pre-pre-k school I was also sent to (with ver...

This is hard for me as well. We don’t talk that much because of our disability and when we have a great joke, we mess it up with our speech and people laugh at the wrong thing. It hurts our feelings. ...

Vent

Vent Hey you, I apologise for any mistakes, English is my second language. to explain my situation: I was stuttering badly from second to eight grade, like really badly, I would cry in class and peopl...

I agree, no one wants to hear others stutter and struggle with words....

I’m giving the presentation to my class, I told the teacher and the class that I stutter, but the teacher laughed at it because she thought I was just joking. 👁👄👁️...

I thought I was the only one who speaks perfectly when I go to speech therapists. So frustrating 🙄 I feel you 100%; this feels like a fucking curse sometimes....

i can almost 100% relate to this. my stutter is also quite bad and when i go the my speech therapist it feels like he sometimes thinks that i might have faked it as i dont stutter talking with him. wh...

Stutter PTSD

Stutter PTSD Hello, Im 18 years old and have been stuttering since i was 9. Recently i went to a new school and due to 2 presentations my stutters have become worse, i didnt want to do them at first ...

Just need to vent

Just need to vent So tonight I was trying to tell my mom how when I let the dog outside, she usually comes back to the door with her kong. The times she doesn’t, if I ask her “where’s your toy? Where ...