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I never want to speak again

I never want to speak again I just can't deal with all this stress and anxiety. I keep blocking for such a long time just for one word. Happens at home, at work, at school, when I'm ordering food, I j...

I stutter more in my house than anywhere else lol. it's the mind for most people. when u r in a comfortable atmosphere, like when u are by yourself you can notice that u actually stutter way lesser th...

I really need help bad

I really need help bad My stutter is not bad at all but it is ruining my life even tho it is so small. It’s always the first word of the sentence and I always think about it to much to the point where...

Depends upon how severe it is. At points in my life it was barely noticeable, a quirk that girls thought was kind of cute once in awhile. I didn't mention it then, and no one ever had an issue. At ...

How severe is it? Like many of us, I'm pretty good at word-switching and a lot of my friends don't know I stutter. I pretty much only tell me close friends because it's mostly an internal struggle. I'...

Started when I was 7 or 8 after suffering from a lot of abuse from my mom and her ex. Nobody did anything and she kept telling me I have to work to get her to set up my own speech therapy. Lived with ...

I started stuttering in the age of 15 in high school, until I was cca 20 year old, I stuttered covertly and it was not noticable, then it started to worsen so I went to speech therapy for the first ti...

My Silent Story

My Silent Story My Life has been full of Anger, Frustration, Sadness, and Shame, living in a rough end in london with this condition has made me social anxious, worried that someone may be silently ju...

When you have to answer the phone at work...

When you have to answer the phone at work... It’s the worst feeling in the world. Especially when you can’t get the initial greeting out. Or you can barely respond to their questions. Or worse of all,...

I find myself covering my face or mouth when I block, or averting eye contact. It’s such a helpless awful feeling....

Covert Stuttering Research Study

Covert Stuttering Research Study Hello! My name is Tiffani Kittilstved, I am a person who covertly stutters, an SLP, and a PhD student at Idaho State University. I am currently conducting research on ...

I do have proper sleep schedule and do heavy weight lifting regularly !! It actually improved my speech somewhat, but still the stuttering isn't gone enough , so I can hide it when talking with peers ...

I'm glad it worked for you. I've heard story after story from a lot of other stutterers who had the same experience as me. If you are able to control your speech, it's because of the techniques. If y...

I advise against them. Fluency shaping programs don't work for most people. I went to one based on Hollins. The typical experience is as follows: Spend all day in positive, insulated environment lear...

I’m proud of myself

I’m proud of myself I started stuttering as a young kid, I have no idea what caused it, and as a immigrant kid learning two languages it made life hell for me. I used to not be able to talk to anyone ...

Mine was fairly severe while growing up, went through years of speech therapy to get it under control. In my 20s it would happen maybe a dozen times a day. After I stopped caring what others thought ...

One day at a job forum, I met a recruiter and she adviced me to never tell to recuiters that I stutter, because I need to be confident, my stutter will not impact my job, people will just need to wai...

I can relate with the confidence aspect of dressing up better. I always makes sure I am groomed well and dress really trendy. I think I only do this to distract others from the fact that I stutter and...

I wish no one in my family stuttered.

I wish no one in my family stuttered. So a little background. Stuttering runs in my family. My father, 2 uncles and 2 brothers stuttered. Notice how i used the past tense here. The thing is they all...

Looking for a job without stutter hard. Looking for a job with stutter: mission impossible.

Looking for a job without stutter hard. Looking for a job with stutter: mission impossible. I have master degre in social science (25F) and I am looking a job for almost a year now. I have some experi...