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It astounds me how in 2021 there are companies that don’t offer non verbal options for customer services.

It astounds me how in 2021 there are companies that don’t offer non verbal options for customer services. Summary: I called customer service for a problem with a medical website for my appointment an...

I realize my stutter is not forward moving....

I realize my stutter is not forward moving.... I have blocks and I linger on one word long over drawn pauses before I say it out. It’s anything because it takes for even to get my thoughts out and whe...

Stutter causing depression.

Stutter causing depression. Hello all, I’ve been stuttering since I was 3 years old and I’m 19 now. It’s always been super difficult for me and it’s starting to take its toll on my mental health. Over...

Looking for medications to reduce stuttering (Propranolol)

Looking for medications to reduce stuttering (Propranolol) I know that there is no cure. I am in my mid 20's, and have stuttered severely my entire life. I have been in intensive speech therapy for mu...

Adult onset stuttering

Adult onset stuttering Hey guys, I've started stuttering basically out of the blue a year ago at 22 years of age... I don't really know the cause of it, It could be drugs, medications I take (Valium ...

I’m so fu*ing proud of myself

I’m so fu*ing proud of myself So to begin, i’m 21, and I have a stammer since i was a kid, and unfortunately, as I grew up, my social anxiety grew up with me unfortunately... Today, I did a ppt online...

It always fucking confuses me, it makes no sense.. I am speaking to myself soo fluently, but as soon as I tell my brain that i will be talking to another being I stutter badly....

Anyone over 17+ have success stories?

Anyone over 17+ have success stories? I have a breakdown about my stutter every week. It seems like an endless cycle that I’m never going to get out of. Everyone undermines the severity of having a s...

When you are just chilling and smoking weed it’s totally chill but now if you are forced to speak and do something that is uncomfortable, you’re only going to stammer more because stoned racing though...

This pandemic has caused great stress for PWS and it's pushing us out of our comfort zones. I realized that I need to learn this new medium (Zoom/Skype/Teams training) and I practiced with my friends...

I agree with the last paragraph for the most part, however I can speak with 99% fluency if I'm just reading home alone, which seems to suggest that my stuttering is caused by anxiety/stress, hence why...

Have you gone to a speech therapist? I am a grad student for speech therapy (I even have a client your age right now that stutters! His is due to anxiety though) and I can tell you that we do absolute...

Yeah, weed makes me stutter x10. Makes my heart race and anxiety through the roof. I am almost unintelligible when high....

With me is a dice roll. Like sometimes I drink coffee and I’m too busy doing things that I don’t focus on my speech and speak fluently. Other times I overthink everything and coffee makes me have cri...

For me, my anxiety makes my stutter 10x worse. I agree that its still there when I am calm, but if I could speak like that every day I wouldnt even have a problem...

You need to go through more training. At 19 you may need a different type of therapy like mind training and different ways of speaking. Everyone has pressure. I'm 60 and have Parkinson's and stuttered...

Being nervous doesn't but anxiety has a lot to do with it. Do not plan your words. Speak immediately and speak with passion and joy. Speak with a smile on your face at all times. You said that you tri...

Nervousness makes everything worse not just stuttering but stuttering is not caused by it, it's kind of a disorder that has nothing to do with nervousness...

Stuttering as a disorder has nothing to do with anxiety or nerves. They can make it worse, but they aren’t the root cause. What the root cause is, we don’t know, but we know that there are strong gene...

Stuttering isn’t caused by nervousness or anxiety; not sure where you read that. People who laugh at stuttering aren’t worth your time - keep on talking!...