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Your post hits close to home- this week I had to do a small presentation for a team meeting. I had prepared and practiced well but when the time came for me to speak, I froze up and I stuttered on eve...

School Presentation

School Presentation I just finished doing my music history slideshow about sly and the family stone. I’ve had a stutter for as long as I can remember (I’m 16) and I stutter through the whole thing but...

Thank you. I somehow feel ashamed knowing that there are stutterers like me out there who are constantly battling and making it through the day while I’m just here crying in the corner of my room and ...

I can relate so much with knowing what to say but choosing to pretend that you don’t have any idea just to escape from stuttering. I’ve had several occasions when in a meeting that I just can’t expres...

genuinely nervous

genuinely nervous ***Stuttering is not the problem, the fear of it is ! That consumes oneself like anything. The long, hard and awkward gazes of people unknown. The long silences between two words. T...

I have the same huge problem with jokes. I recently just got an acute onset stutter and before I would crack jokes all the time. Now I feel like my stuttering ruins it....

Vent

Vent Stuttering sucks. When you want to tell a joke, you stutter at the punchline. You want to take a part in conversation: you end up staying silent. You have an idea to share in class: the person si...

Stuttering sucks

Stuttering sucks Im from Greece and you all know that the greek language is kinda hard to learn. Well I have been stuttering for the last 4 years and I cant speak because of that. I was doing online ...

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:( last wednesday i had an oral test and nearly had a panic attack,, and as i was really stressed, it was even more hard to talk like i was stuttering so much, nearly on every words honestly, i dont t...

Do you know what’s the worst part about stuttering mid conversation?

Do you know what’s the worst part about stuttering mid conversation? People that keep looking at you faking it as if they didn’t notice the stutter and act as if nothing happened, and end conversation...

I tried to hide it my whole life, I'm still trying.

I tried to hide it my whole life, I'm still trying. Ever since I was a little kid, stuttering was and still is my number 1 issue, I am not sure whether it's congenital, but what I'm sure of, I'll be m...

stuttering sucks so much

stuttering sucks so much I stutter my whole life, and I still cant get used to it. I hate how I dont even "stutter" but I do that thing which sounds like "o-o-oo-u" and cant breath anymore, people are...

Yeah, I got that a couple times in highschool. I've tried to explain it twice and I came off as a weirdo....

When stuttering was a big issue in my life, I think the worst part was feeling like I was making my listener(s) uncomfortable or making them feel embarrassed...

no I have no problem when someone finishes my sentence or something else, but only when they look at me with a painful look, it makes me feel a little bad...

When people think I'm "slow" or mentally challenged (while I have a master's degree, speak two foreign languages an also have an above-average IQ)....

I just kind of had an emotional breakdown at a public setting today.

I just kind of had an emotional breakdown at a public setting today. So I got made fun of my stutter today. After many many years. In a public setting which is my worst nightmare. And these aren't eve...

I think that's very normal, I do and feel exactly the same. However I would love to not feel ashamed about it because unfortunately we are our biggest bullies. I admire other people being straight to...

If I ever smile or laugh at my stutter it's in response to someone doing so first. I think I do it to make them feel at ease, removes tension from the room, but it makes me feel embarrassed and ashame...

1. Yes 2. Years of various types 3. No 4. The iceberg idea of surface and hidden emotions (I encountered this as an adult) 5. Begin to delve into the emotional aspects of speech dysfluency 6. Emotiona...