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See for simple stuff like picking up a takeaway, you could always give a fake name. I remember I was ordering coffee for my boss and used his name instead of mine, came out straight away. How old are...

How long did you get a job after graduation?

How long did you get a job after graduation? When I graduated college, it took me about 5 months to find my 1st job. I worked for 5 companies already and never disclosed my stutter to them. My stutt...

I do have a stutter when silent-mouthing. Yes, stuttering can be triggered. I never really labeled myself as a stutter till 2 years back, and it has had no effect on my stuttering. Yes, the majority o...

How long did you get a job?

How long did you get a job? I worked for 5 companies already and never disclosed my stutter to them. My stutter is mild but it gets worse in some days like when I overslept or I lack sleep. Sometimes...

It works other way round as well to me. I will speak something with stutter but when asked to repeat, I will do it fluently. What a funny thing stutter is....

Yeah, native language still works fine but hell if i have to speak other language even in English. Maybe because we don’t have much vocabulary so that we can’t replace different words if we got block ...

I stutter less or not at all the second go around. Knowing exactly what I have to say and how it’ll feel helps a lot but it’s only immiedietly after. A lot of times I still struggle with “thank you”...

Yep! My husband has some hearing loss and says what a lot but feels so bad because I normally stutter pretty badly repeating it. I’m terrified of going through drive-thru’s because 1. I’ve been told t...

Everytime like clockwork. It gets weirder when I get pissed and just write it down or type it out on my phone. And as soon as I let them read it I can say it perfectly fine as many times as I want....

Yep sometimes when I have to repeat myself I like to shorten the sentences like what are you doing this weekend “I’m going to build a chicken coop”and then they ask me I will be like “build a chicken ...

In high school I kind of used to laugh or smile through my stutter, and that helped put me at ease … even if it was maybe a little weird, hah...

I stutter in every language I speak. Fewer blocks or repetitions occur when I speak my native language however, because I have a richer vocabulary and can easily rearrange words in a sentence or find ...

Do you stutter in other languages?

Do you stutter in other languages? I speak English and Spanish. I stutter way more in Spanish than in English. I wonder if I learned another language, would in stutter in that language too. ...

YES. every single time! it’s especially bad if it’s not used in a sentence and someone just asks me. i’ve started introducing myself/ ordering food etc as my nickname because i don’t stutter when sayi...

I'm going to provide a different angle here. I am 20, in my second year of college. I grew up similarly to your son. Didn't see my stutter as much of a problem and didn't really see a need to change ...

I did this at the NCO Academy in the Air Force back in the '90s. I signed up second to give my speech/briefing and spent the rest of the class day listening to everybody else....

I always apply for jobs using the online system. Although the initial phone interview is challenging, once I pass that and proceed to the in-person interview, the process becomes significantly easier....

So, to go back to my arguments why traditional speech therapy didn't work for me: IMO, Reasons why traditional speech therapy probably didn't work for me: * If we consider the primary symptom of stu...

"The techniques and tricks of traditional therapy don't work because SLPs don't treat it as a phobia, they're only interested in the mechanical function of speech." Reply: I'd like to reply to this...

Eye contact, Stuttering and Dating.

Eye contact, Stuttering and Dating. I struggle maintaining eye contact with people when i'm speaking, especially when i start to stutter. Sometimes they look away and it makes me feel bad. What trigge...