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What are some things that you feel like your stuttering is holding you back doing? How do you handle your stutter in public? I usually just say something like ”hi I am **** and sometimes I have a ha...

Did it hold you back a lot in your life? I'm only 17 and it's starting to stop me from doing things which if i would do instantly if i wouldn't stutter...

Yes, it has affected my job and the ability to get promoted. I used to work for airport security and the next level up was required to use radios and answer telephones. Sometimes in extremely, tense ...

How has it affected your jobs ? Whats your current job? Do you think that the job you have is the one you love to do , or youre just doing it cuz of your stutter ?...

This. I have everything I hoped to have as an adult. College degree, degree relevant job, house, GF, friends. I consider myself to have a severe stutter but I never let it stop me from living life. ...

I know stutterers who are/ were doctors, teachers, college professor, engineer, financial advisor, VP of a company, and SLPs. As you get older you realize the stutter doesn't hold you back, it's you w...

That sums up my experience to a “T”. Once I got out of college and wasn’t able to get jobs because of it, that’s when the self loathing started....

Learning foreign languages

Learning foreign languages Is it pointless to learn foreign languages because i won't be able to express myself and talk fluently? I want to speak more languages, but i don't see point when i can bare...

You're definitely not alone. My stutter was mild from when I was young until about age 28. I'm 31 now and it slowly started getting worse due to adulthood stress I'm guessing. Now it's always on my mi...

That's wonderful to hear. These are success stories of people who have not gone to become fluent, but to have succeeded in spite of their stuttering. Thank you for taking the time out and sharing this...

thats the hardest part for me. i cant make acknowledgement of it even tho i know my friends know i have it. its almost like i cant accept it. that would be a huge step for me. every day is a struggle ...

I’m a rising fourth year medical student and I’ve been a PWS since I was like 4. Don’t let your stutter decide what you want to do in the future. Yes Radiology and path require less speaking but in th...

Hey ! Thanks for responding. Actually, ignoring the fact that i stuttered , i wanted to be neurosurgeon but guess what , it might not even be physically possible for me due to tremendous stress caused...

Being in medicine, only for people who are already in medicine

Being in medicine, only for people who are already in medicine Whats your opinion on which field in medicine should a stutterer take? can stutterer do any job in medicine , or do they have to limit th...

You speak by opening your mouth and delivering words. What you're describing with regards to mind is imagination. It's not real speech. But yes, it's frustrating. We know more or less what we want to...

In response to your edit, no I'm not in America (thank God! Have you seen America lately?), I'm in the Philippines, but I'm an American citizen too so I have that option, assuming trump finally kicks...

Hi. I did make a post here around that time, whining about my existential crisis lol, so yes you may have see me around. Not much has changed since then. I'm still in limbo, taking a year off to "find...

Im still at high school level , would you suggest me to not pursue medicine ? Im a moderate to severe stutterer (blocks most of the time ). Being a doctor is stressful job and my stutter only gets wor...

I dont really know with whom should i open up my feelings. Im depressed to the point that ive lost my motivation in doing everything. I ve lost the motivation to study well because anyway i wont be a...

I would definitely love to do that, but something is holding me back from it. Recently I got really interested in debating, as my classmates presented how it is done in front of the whole class, and I...