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First job interview.

First job interview. I’m 17 and I recently applied for my first job. I’ve been wanting to get a job for awhile, but my stuttering has held me back because there’s not many jobs you can get as a teen t...

Biggest problem is getting into the sentence, after that it is mostly more easier. It just sucks when you made a pun or a joke and you need to repeat and it gets into this awkard "urgh" "ergh" situati...

Blocks when repeating a sentence

Blocks when repeating a sentence Hey, I am just curious if you have the same problems like me sometimes when you need to repeat a sentence because someone didnt hear it. When I am fluent at the firs...

Gonna need help with this...

Gonna need help with this... So In our country, summer is almost over and school is coming in 2 days. In the first day of our school, we introduce ourselves in front of the class. And I guess you...

First time poster and some "problems" for a stutterer

First time poster and some "problems" for a stutterer Hi, I've stuttered my hole life. Got a little better since my childhood. When I was a child I only had the "repetitions-stuttering" (li-li-like th...

I only stutter on certain letters/sounds. Help?

I only stutter on certain letters/sounds. Help? To start, I work a service job where I go to customers home, and I find it EXTREMELY difficult to introduce myself. My name is Ryley, and it sounds more...

Thanks for the thoughtfulness I tried to do that in the last one but they just pushed it aside and said "We don't need it, just give us your name" I swear my brain just fucks with me for the sake o...

Couldn't vote in the UK election today because I couldn't say my name FML

Couldn't vote in the UK election today because I couldn't say my name FML "What's your name?" Silence. More silence. Gulp. "We need your name." FML, life isn't worth living like this. Fifteen years o...

Tips to get over a specific block?

Tips to get over a specific block? Here's some r/stutter humor to set the scene: http://imgur.com/a/4MKGI If anyone has tips to get rid of or make a block less noticeable I'd love to hear it because ...

Personally, I would rather stutter if it's going to be repetitions. If I know I will likely block on a sound, I will use fillers and awkward pauses to ease into it...

Oh yeah I forgot to mention I've never been to starbucks. I did hear their ordering system is a little complicated though, so I see where you're coming from. It's just that with ordering, the sentenc...

because of the frapalapa-whatevers they have, I just get stuck on those. I thought it would be easy just asking for the receipt....

I don't understand why you grab popcorn to avoid embarrasment but end up asking for the receipt anyway. Ordering food seems a lot easier than asking for a receipt, for me at least....

Why... :(

Why... :( so I was at Starbucks yesterday, and to avoid embarrassing myself, i just grab a bag of popcorn. i pay for it, and they usually don't give receipts so i try to ask for a receipt, but it come...

Same here! And once I get through the block I can speak just fine. How many times do you do it daily and for how long?...

Hope it can help at least one other person. I should note that my stutter displays itself as a stuttering block and not so much repetition (it is hard for me to begin the sentence but once I get goin...

Always come off as rude.

Always come off as rude. I'm a covert stutter so i block alot, and I block most on the first thing i need to say, after that I'm pretty good with my speech.But whenever i need to say thank you or good...

Question

Question Would y'all rather sound sort of strange when you talk, and take a lot of awkward pauses, or would you rather stutter?? ...

I think there's a big nuance here. Good days and bad days are different than stuttering and being fluent. On good days we are still stutterers but during magical periods of fluency, we are something e...

software engineer - affects me a little bit, we do daily stand up meetings where you have to talk about what you did the day prior, and your plan for the day, along with presenting each friday what I'...