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My mother would mock my stuttering when she was mad at me. When she wasn’t mad she completely ignored it. Both instances hurt a lot and to this day I’m still very sensitive to peoples reaction to my s...

I’m so sorry to hear your sibling are essentially bullying you. To be honest, I know the horror and defeatism that comes with siblings being rude about your stutter. My brother would literally be up i...

What causes stuttering?

What causes stuttering? I'm 14 and i started stuttering when i was 5, but than the stutter went away all the way up until i was 10, that's when the stuttering came back again and i still stutter today...

My classmate has a severe stutter and just got his first job as a soeech therapist. We went to a FRIENDS convention together and there were several SLPs who stutter. Please don't tell yourself you don...

I'm a straight up quadriplegic and I've for sure had people joke about it, often to my face and not in an accepting manner. Same with anxiety, and previously other speech and movement disorders....

Thank you for sharing. So true people should not make fun of someone for something they shouldnt change no matter how upset you are....

That isn't true. People joke about handicaps far worse than stuttering....

Kind of a little different but in the same vane with 1 was when I had a guy acuse me of making fun of his stutter and tell me to go to a therapist because I was fucked up. I wasn't making fun of his s...

I feel you all.

I feel you all. I don't have a stutter, but I do have a bit of social anxiety. My mom has a really bad stutter and she just finished a phone call where she struggled a lot. Growing up watching her go...

I have stuttered my whole life and the amount of times I have been told to just “spit it out” or “slow it down” by just random people either at work or in public with friends is pretty ridiculous. I ...

nah. people who stutter should stutter more openly. Then rude ones would be exposed and we wouldn’t have to think about our stutter 24/7...

"spit it out"

"spit it out" i started stuttering a year ago, i went to few speech therapists and nothing worked. my parents think it's stupid and that my stutter will go but it's getting worser everytime. at the b...

Ignore what she said. My brother was my biggest bully about my stutter (which is pretty severe) my entire life. I’ve also had better jobs, longer and fuller relationships and friendships, and happines...

Aye fuck dat bitch I had customers make fun of my stutter but I was the one making money. Anyone who stops you isn’t help you grow. You don’t need to speak to have a job just go into an interview and ...

Regarding your note at the end, Definitely let your teachers and classmates know you have a stutter. Because people with bad stutters usually try not to speak, no one knows what a bad stutter sounds ...

Hello! Retail/Customer service worker here, I had the exact same thoughts going into my job since my job is 98% talking to people I was terrified but something I have discovered at my place of work I ...

I get. I truly do. I've been stuttering ever since I was born and have seen 5 different speech therapist due to the severity and at the end, the last 4 therapist have said they have no idea how to hel...

Fuck, I related to this a lot more than I thought I would, especially the deadly combination of mean high schoolers and stuttering...

O yes I hated that. i Also remember in highscool when they made me read outloud. I can still hear people laughing in the background. Even my friends laughed. Still haunts me to this day...

Sorry to hear you had to go through that. That is horrible and I'm glad she is an ex. You really learn and understand who your real friends are when you stutter....