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I often credit it for my large vocabulary due to the rewording of sentences or substitution of words. The love/hate/tense relationship with words made me become an English teacher… and a special needs...

Talk about it with your parents, talk about it with your friends. Stuttering is how you talk, there’s nothing wrong with it. It’s your ‘accent’. Nothing to hide or be ashamed of!...

Well one thing you need to think about is that your stuttering is often separate from various other behaviors. So you need to know what you define “stuttering ruining your life.” If you avoid speaki...

I stutter since I am 6 and it is just how I am. Can't change it. I sometimes talk about how annoying it is when I am tired and how I hate calling because of it (I have to reword sentences to speak mor...

How many of you are comfortable with talking about your stutter with friends/family?

How many of you are comfortable with talking about your stutter with friends/family? I have always been embarrassed about talking about my stutter with others in my life. I just recently tried to star...

Think about how you forget things in general....for example, what did you eat for dinner two weeks ago from today? Obviously if you try really hard you might remember, but 99% of the time you will h...

I'll give u a tip I used it's a little off topic So two years ago I started to note down all the main situations I find myself in where I don't stutter and one of the main ones were when I'm talking ...

I’m thankful that my stutter has never gotten in the way of my romantic life. I’m also lesbian, so I wonder if that has anything to do with it? when I meet women I’m interested in, they could often ca...

that's great. you seem very determined to overcome what you have learnt to believe about yourself over the years, it's inspiring. I have a face that I want to present to the world, and there is disso...

You just described stuttering. It’s actually mostly a type of social anxiety issue that gets worse the more you try to hide it. I suspect that anyone who stutters when taking to themself is doing s...

Every time I stop by this subreddit I'm amazed how we all have the exact same experiences and fears and embarrassing situations like OP but more importantly how we all deal with them internally and ex...

>Or just keep stuttering and hating on life. I remember reading a quote on a forum “Stuttering is not the problem. You are the problem. Stuttering is the result”. Thank you! You raise some great p...

Yeah of course. I’ll give a very brief background: I had a stutter when I was a kid learning to speak. It went away until I was about 14 then it came back. Fast forward. I’m now 22, have a chronic st...

Because stutter **is** a part of who they are. And if they get the message that stuttering is undesirable (which they already get some society) then they get the message, when I stutter i am undesirab...

I'm 38 years old and still stutter. I have seen it all sadly....

To be fair, most SLPs don't know much about stuttering and what they learn in grad school, if anything, is likely outdated or plain wrong. It's not an acquirable behavior. It's a neuromotor communicat...

In the same exact way was I mocked by a Jehova’s witness granny that wanted to hand me a leaflet. At the end of the day I thought ‘wow who else on earth could say they’ve had the pleasure of being mo...

Well I don’t necessarily think that you consciously are trying to prove to the other person that you indeed stutter. But what I’m saying is that once they find out that you stutter, you internalize t...

Stutterers are braver than people without a stutter every time they decide to talk by default. Remember that

Stutterers are braver than people without a stutter every time they decide to talk by default. Remember that Talking despite being aware that you will stutter makes you automatically more badass and r...

I think it’s possible that once they know you stutter, you feel subconsciously like you have an obligation to continue to show them that you do, to meet their expectations that you stutter. This is ma...