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I totally agree with this post! If you say upfront that you have a stutter, they are more likely to look past it. Yes you're nervous and that's likely why the stuttering is worse (I know it is for me)...

I always spoke privately to all of my professors beforehand, to give them a sense of the struggle it would be for me to speak in front of the class. I also enrolled with my university's Accessibility ...

I can empathize with you. I was born a social, extroverted person and my stutter used to be a big reason to why I had a lot of introverted and mute moments. The muteness was definitely debilitating, b...

I was born a social, extrovert person but my stutter has always made me mute and introvert

I was born a social, extrovert person but my stutter has always made me mute and introvert In my mind at school I always wanted to talk and be active in conversations but I always just stood there and...

I sometimes think im a mind reader or something, when I’m talking and stuttering I’ll see the persons eye contact drift down to my contorting face. And immediately I’m thinking that they must think I’...

It just happened one day. I was sitting in my dark room, on my bed, getting angry at fluent people. And I just snapped. I told myself this was a *horrible* way to live. I told myself to get out of b...

How did you guys accept your stutter? (Practice Self-Acceptance)

How did you guys accept your stutter? (Practice Self-Acceptance) I'm a very severe pws, like facial contortion, block on every word bad. I'm also very covert about my speech, I try at all costs to avo...

Take it from me - the looks are probably less of a thing than you think. When I stutter, I become really perceptive about little things like this and really sensitive to how people are looking at and...

All of the mobile ordering apps are so good. I can order a drink at Starbucks without being looked at weird....

I keep getting weird looks

I keep getting weird looks I have a stutter and when I'm talking I'll just like seize up and I can't say anything until I take a deep breath. This makes me look stupid sometimes and people look at me ...

Accepting my stutter

Accepting my stutter I've struggled with my stutter for as long as I could remember, and I used to be super insecure and embarrassed about it that I used to refuse to talk. But as the years have gone ...

^ exactly. We condition ourselves to live in our heads and assume that our stutter is going to ruin our life. Of course it's one of the hardest things to deal with, but we fail to realize that other p...

Such a good thought man. I had a interview for graduate school a few months ago. Once it began I could feel the sweat dripping off my fucking head and the speech blocks appearing. Once I became so ner...

Mate, mind my language, but what the fuck did you expect their reaction to be? For the average person, hearing/seeing a stutterer is translated as extreme nervousness or some mental disorder. They can...

I'm 29 and Female. Please don't be discouraged. I had a similar experience where I was a trainee exacutive at my country's leading advertising agency. Due to my stuttering and fear of public speaking,...

Stuttering has made me fall to my knees, I'm 100% hopeless

Stuttering has made me fall to my knees, I'm 100% hopeless So I'm [19, M] currently in my first semester at a reputated and one of the leading universities of my country. There's a club in my uni that...

Just go through with it. Stuttering isn't a disease or smh. It's a part of your identity that makes you different from the rest. The sooner you make peace with stuttering, the sooner you can move on w...

I tell a lot of people that I stutter. They don't treat me differently, but I have some measure of control of what they interpret my stutter as. Nobody's "normal". Don't get caught up in that concept...

Hi! I'm a 20 yo student who has been stuttering since I was 8 yo. My stutter was terrible through secondary school (High school for any American friends here), but I had a group of friends that liked ...

Hi! I'm a 20 yo student who has been stuttering since I was 8 yo. My stutter was terrible through secondary school (High school for any American friends here), but I had a group of friends that liked ...