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My company first sergeant told me I had the authorization to say/yell motherfucker or fucking during training if it helped. So I got permission to drop the F bomb officially for having a stutter which...

Congratulations! It's very important to take note of every positive interaction by writing it down (maybe a list somewhere?) and you can look it up on bad days to cheer up. It's really just a matter ...

I 100% get you Brodie. Stuttering sucks, not gunna undercut it. Some days there’s days that are awesome and some that suck, it happens, but those feelings of desperation are temporary. You never would...

How to not feel alone when I'm broken

How to not feel alone when I'm broken There are times when I just want to give up. Stuttering has made me depressed and has given me anxiety. Constant stress and low self esteem has made me not want t...

It is extremely subjective to your situation but I would say it could. It won't be like taking am anti-stuttering pill but I have found that exercise helps reduce my stutter because it is something ...

I agree with you. My family insist I don’t have a stammer that it is just anxiety, it annoys me so much because I know it’s not caused by anxiety and that anxiety is a secondary condition to stammerin...

It must be something with the anxiety. That’s what makes me stutter more...

Anxiety does not cause stuttering, but it can amplify it-...

Whenever I tell people about my stutter they are always surprised to hear about the physical toll that speaking, especially publicly, can cause. Seem’s intuitive to me but without knowing what a stutt...

Same here mate. I can sit in my room and read for 20mins non stop and not stutter once. Sometimes I think is it anxiety that causes us to stutter but then again there is times when I’m not anxious at ...

I also experience my stuttering in waves, usually influenced by stress. Are you feeling stressed during lockdown? It's not always easy to tell, but if you are, you might be able to manage the stress t...

I’m 30 and I still stutter. It’s much much much better than it was when I was 15 and in school. Kids are dicks which causes more anxiety which in turn can make stuttering worse. Back in school I alway...

This is happening to me too and I’m almost your same age. Thank you for posting. I had a traumatic and stressful year and I figured this was a reaction to it, but I was feeling worried it could be som...

Smoking usually relieves stress, so by quitting you made your daily stress levels a bit higher for a while, until you get used to not smoking. Now I'm not saying to start smoking again because it's un...

Definitely a few times people have thought I was drunk because of the stutter, especially in college. In high school, I went to the nurse’s office because of a headache. My stutter was especially ba...

Thanks for the response, it's appreciated. My father has a similar stutter when stressed, maybe it is genetic. Though it's a weird thing to be a genetic problem. I'll see what I can do to manage stre...

I recently joined the USMC with a stutter, and when I first got to Parris Island my stutter was so bad during receiving they pulled me off to the side.. down a long corridor to an office where I had a...

Once during a routine traffic stop the cops did. That was fun. I wasn't so it turned out ok in the end but it was still frustrating....

As a doctor, having to call a family member to give updates or ask about information is like Russian roulette for that reason alone. I always take my time and go slow and as clear as I possibly can an...

Was pulled over by a cop when I was like 17 because I forgot to turn on my head lights while leaving a mall parking lot. Of course I stuttered when he came up to the window, so he asked me to exit the...