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Being honest about it helps (with yourself and with others). It really reduces the pressure to be fluent. I stutter and I'm a writer and a manager. I'm doing pretty well for myself. I think being unab...

Acceptance is key to finding peace and comfort. Otherwise you will stress about it which brings on anxiety and thus, more stuttering. The degree of "acceptance" varies to person to person. I know I ...

For me, what started the process was realizing my stutter didn't actually, physically, hurt me. It was intensely embarrassing, but it wasn't killing me. So I figured I could deal with the embarrassmen...

Stuttering is an identity that we all share, and how you identify with it varies. When I was 15, I exhibited secondary behavior like tapping myself to get through a block, now I'm 25 and I sort of jus...

Yup, exactly. I say this as a female afflicted with "wounded duck thing." Tho, I do not actually see people who stutter as wounded ducks, just to be clear. But, yeah, the vulnerability and being tr...

That is certainly a valid concern and you're right; you don't want to use it as an excuse. I talked about it by discussing how it was hard to deal with growing up but that as I got older, I pursued op...

I have what I would call a mild stutter but when I applied to medical school, it was obviously something that weighed heavily on my mind. I chose to write about my stutter in my personal statement (no...

I don't agree; acknowledging that you stutter is better that trying to pretend it's not there. I don't mean making a big deal out of it, but saying nothing is almost always worse in a situation like ...

A part of being an actor, for instance, is confidence when speaking and putting on a role. Both of those things tend to decrease one's stutter....

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...

Indeed. I have contacts at various places which have a large membership. When I call them, they don't even have to ask my name and instantly know it's me. I am fully open about my stutter and talk li...

Yeah, it took me a good 3 years in college before I had the confidence to speak up in class. I have really found the benefits in practicing mindfulness and really focusing on my own mind rather than t...

I didn't stutter whIle singing. Concentrating more on breathing , hitting the note and remembering the words. I stuttered less with acting. Concentrating on lines, emotion, using different accents or ...

Any time I have brought it up with him, it's been from a point of view that his stuttering isn't holding him back, but it's rather more of the nervousness that comes with it that is. I'm sure gettin...

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...

Yeah, interesting. You're a covert stutterer. All of the success, high-bar setting you're talking about, is dependent, or you feel it's dependent, on you hiding your stutter. I don't think it's h...

Glad you've found the video to be helpful! I see myself as different than a trainer. I'm passionate about sharing this information because I know all the wonderful things it can do for others. You men...

I wish I had realized earlier on that most people don't care at all if you stutter, and those who do probably aren't folks you want to be around. Once I was more upfront and comfortable about it, and ...

In short: you completion with your problem and not overcome it. This is one way, but for me I'm trying to get overcome my stutter and not completion with it. Like you said that if you have body with ...

Step #1: Throw any expectations out of the window. 'Will I be fluent or not?' 'Will I ever be a social person?' 'Will I ever do this or that?'. Forget all of that. Your only goal now it's to become th...