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Small Victory!

Small Victory! Today, I ordered food for myself for the first time. I walked to a restaurant in person and placed the order myself. I felt very shy and struggled to say what I wanted but the woman who...

Open it with a PSA type.."I have a stutter but it's Ok..think of them as dramatic pauses..." I stole that from someone...I use it all the time at work before presentations...

Advice

Advice I have a mild stutter and have to do a reading at my cousins wedding, I haven’t received the material yet and they don’t know that I have a stutter. I haven’t don’t public speaking much At all ...

Applying for jobs

Applying for jobs Hi all. Sorry for the long rant. so I was recently made redundant so am looking for work. I have been in a customer facing role for over 25 years and never had a problem talking to ...

When you meet her online, fall in love and break up online bcs you dont want her to know you stutter

When you meet her online, fall in love and break up online bcs you dont want her to know you stutter I finna have an online marriage...

Stuttering and intonation/pauses/tempo

Stuttering and intonation/pauses/tempo Have any of you noticed that you have no personal, distinct way of speaking (like intonation, pauses, tempo etc)? I feel like I stutter less when I try to speak ...

When you meet her online, fall in love and break up online bcs you dont want her to know you stutter

When you meet her online, fall in love and break up online bcs you dont want her to know you stutter I finna have an online marriage...

positives: - I know who makes an effort to come into my life/the relationship I make with them because, let’s be real, my stutter is fairly severe and it can be hard to get comfortable with when you ...

Depending on the situation, I choose different ways to start a sentence while introdicing myself. To avoid standart "my name is x", because the sentence itself triggers stutter for me....

If it is bothering you though, I’d try following your mom’s advice sometimes. See if you can liberate yourself from the “tricks”. If you like that better or notice positive reactions from other people...

It can definitely hit right in the throat, but far more often before that happens, I can "just tell." My main strategy growing up was putting my mouth on a delay from my thoughts and using that buffe...

Ya I switch words around so often especially in preparing speeches as some are just easier to say than others. I’ve never done it for my name but I probably should as well...

Someone said that too as saying it on your terms in easier than theirs. I will have to try it...

I was in a college meeting and they were taking attendance. It was the first ever meeting, so they were jotting our names down. There were many international students and we were all cordially laughin...

I’ve always worked in forward facing customer service. My last job was a call center. I use to use my tricks. Avoidance, word flipping, etc.. But eventually just had to say Eff it…...

I will write some positive aspects after many here are laughing them off ^^. I think I'm a very good listener because of it. Not just because as a stutterer you could think I don't like talking. But...

I've always been confused as to why my name is the hardest thing for me to say. Getting asked the question if I forgot my name was something I got used to. I eventually started telling those people, "...

Incorrect question. Then ask how to stop stuttering. As long as you treat it as a test, you will continue to fail, nothing will change. Be in the topic of your dialog without hindsight, then you will ...

That's interesting.. Maybe it's a common thing people with stutters do? And you make a good point - at least it allows me to get the words out...

I can never outright say my name so I always repeat back to them, “my name is blank” but the other problem is if I’m on a day when I can’t say my then I’m just screwed all around. Alternatively the ol...