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I feel the same exact way as you do. I am a covert stutterer as well and gone through every thing you went through - decent job, would occasionally go out to bars, play basketball on the weekends. As ...

I can empathize 100%, that being said, I desperately want to be social, I love socializing and connecting with people. You seem to have no desire to do so. Maybe this is just a phase or maybe, you hav...

I think this is fairly common. I've experienced this at various points in my life...though it may always be present, just at a lower level. I know what you mean when you say you're comfortable but not...

Breaking out of asocial behavior

Breaking out of asocial behavior Has anyone developed an asocial type of lifestyle? I have and I don't know I feel about it. My stammer was bad when I was a child and it had quite a negative effect o...

Because you can't lead a stress free life. Every person has to deal with stress in their lives. You can only learn to handle stress, not taking it away. Or you must live on welfare, be sure to shut ...

Because EVEN if, EVEN if those tests would show to be conclusive, which they show as much to be as that vaccines cause autism, what are you going to do with that info? You're going to take away every ...

Well coming here, posting, owning up to the embarrassment is a first step and it's a big first step, so feel good about that. I've known a lot of people who stutter, lots of covert stutterers and this...

> The other thing he says is that he will not he able to get a good job because of his speech. He is not alone in feeling that way about him stutter. It isn’t a hard barrier to good paying jobs b...

The other thing he says is that he will not he able to get a good job because of his speech. And the therapist said that another one of his patients has a stutter worse than my son's and he is a Vice...

> I don't know what my 18 yo is going through but it is has changed his quality of life. You aren’t alone. Being 18 yo is tough, stutter or not. When it gets worse (I'm guessing that is the case ...

I don't know what my 18 yo is going through but it is has changed his quality of life. He didn't go to school for several weeks after he felt embarrassed in school when forced by his teacher to speak ...

I'm in that phase right now after being out of it for a while.... I go back and forth. It fucking sucks being held back in everything You can possibly do because of this God damn curse. "Just don't l...

Yeah, I go through phrases like that periodically. You're more-or-less describing myself, in terms of the social awkwardness. A lot of the issues I've had I could blame on my stutter. I sometimes th...

Stutter ruins my life. Has anyone else been in this phase?

Stutter ruins my life. Has anyone else been in this phase? I just recently realized that all of my problems are caused by my stutter. I am socially awkward, only have a few friends, i am the 'loner' i...

Personally, the reason why it bothers me and why I want to have it fixed is because it greatly affects my ability to communicate and socialize. I know that its the main reason why I have let too many ...

Ah man..I went on a "date" with a girl my freshmen year in college with her 2-3 other friends and she was driving, so I sat in the front. Someone in the back seat said out load "this guy reminds me o...

I am 23. I have been on one "date" if you can even call it that. We went to a movie, i purposely did this so I wouldnt have to talk much. We barely talked before, she was late so we walked in...only t...

Very touching stories I can relate to you guys. I'd like to add another thing about my speech that basically almost eliminates my stutter, but makes me sound really slow or like I have something wrong...

Well i can tell you one thing, your not alone. Far from it. What you described is almost exactly my life. I remember this traumatizing incident when i was a kid going into a new class in the middle o...

I have that too. I hold back on saying something funny or even expanding past the point of words like, "okay" and "yeah"...