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commentr/StutterJul 5, 2025
4 points

I’m 22 years old and I deal with a very severe stammer as well. I pretty much relate to every single thing you’ve said. Sometimes my family will still order food for me, make phone calls for me, or ac...

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commentr/StutterJul 5, 2025
4 points

Im a 25 yr old female who also stutters. I’ve stuttered all my life and there is no hope of fluency in my future. I understand your frustration and pain. Living in the adult world as a person who just...

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commentr/StutterJul 5, 2025
10 points

I have social and anxiety and stutter and am engineer and I deal with it every day if my life. My stutter isn’t related to repeating the same word over and over again. I get speech blocks when startin...

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commentr/StutterJul 5, 2025
1 points

i think realizing and making mind(strong mind) that you can do it helps reduce fear and hesitaion, and repeatedly doing something will help one day, i am 20 year old male and have have decided to medi...

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commentr/StutterJul 4, 2025
1 points

Lately I've been making my brain temporarily enter singing mode if I have a block. I don't actually sing the sentence or first word, but just the first touch of the first word, long enough to get a fl...

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commentr/StutterJul 4, 2025
9 points

I have a mild, mainly anxiety driven and psychological stutter. I have a few tricks. It’s weird because one trick will work great one day and another day it will be useless. So some of the tricks I le...

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commentr/StutterJul 4, 2025
3 points

Total guesswork from me, as I've dealt with fluency issues from my very first words, but I teach a bunch of music students your age. 15 is a time of huge development in your brain, so it might make a...

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postr/StutterJul 4, 2025
5 points

Do you have a problem with unwittingly sounding angry? And how do you mitigate it?

Do you have a problem with unwittingly sounding angry? And how do you mitigate it? I suffer less and less from cluttering and stuttering as I grow older and slower, but I notice that the consonant-for...

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commentr/StutterJul 3, 2025
1 points

I try to hit the gym. In my case I still don't forget about stuttering. I constantly think about that...

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commentr/StutterJul 3, 2025
1 points

I think identifying what is making you stressed will help, maybe draw a mind map of potential triggers of stress in your life and think about things that might be lacking which could help with stress,...

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postr/StutterJul 2, 2025
2 points

Incident #1 – The Power of Preparation vs. The Weight of Fear

Incident #1 – The Power of Preparation vs. The Weight of Fear Once during school, I was extremely nervous because I had to participate in a competition — a speech event. I remember feeling so negative...

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postr/StutterJul 2, 2025
3 points

I'm going to a week-long course to learn how to be a guide and present things in front of a class, in three days... I'd love some tips.

I'm going to a week-long course to learn how to be a guide and present things in front of a class, in three days... I'd love some tips. Just as the title said, Next week I'm going out of my home for a...

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commentr/StutterJul 1, 2025
6 points

I’ve felt all the things you are feeling, and still do, depending on where I’m at in my mood/stuttering cycle. It often feels like two steps forward, one step back, both in my mindset and my managemen...

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commentr/StutterJul 1, 2025
3 points

Yeah 100% the more thought the worse I am. If I’m yapping with friends they don’t even notice. For years I kept a lot to myself they never even knew I had this. I think if my work colleagues and my f...

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postr/StutterJul 1, 2025
5 points

Teaching at a college (with a stutter)

Teaching at a college (with a stutter) I am writing this up because my effort to reachout (via a post here) was deleted. I started stuttering when I was in third grade... it continued and reached it...

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commentr/StutterJun 30, 2025
1 points

Hey, I just stumbled upon this post and have already watched his videos. Can relate so much because I too don't tend to stutter that much on the days I'm extremely busy. But, is focusing on other area...

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commentr/StutterJun 30, 2025
1 points

Put anxiety aside i can't read when phrases and sentences are densely made up of those sounds.  By thought block, my family and a general doctor refer that, i think I have a stutter which is making ...

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commentr/StutterJun 30, 2025
1 points

I don't think it's a thought block by itself, but my family and a general doctor whom we visited earlier said so....

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commentr/StutterJun 30, 2025
1 points

This post is so incredible to me. I am 24 and in grad school, and my speech has gotten more disfluent over the past couple years. I've been so much more anxious about it. I've reached out to a pe...

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commentr/StutterJun 30, 2025
2 points

please don’t ever demotivate yourself just because you do stutter..i do have a very much bad stuttering problem but i recently finished my internship at bank i customer service department and you know...

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