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Oh yeah I've thought about this many many times. I'm convinced my life would be vastly different if I didn't stutter but I don't think I'd use the word "cruel" to define it. I'm completely at peace wi...

Hello, fellow female, haha!! I agree it's very werid to be the minority gender with a a disability that affects even a smaller number of people. But we're at least 3 strong, and that's something!!...

Exactly, because you can't have a disability based on your location. A man with a limp which is a trued disability limps in every room of his house. He can't go into a room alone and walk perfectly, ...

I'm so glad to see female stutterers here!! I'm actually also a woman. So weird to think we're the "unicorns" of the stuttering world. Sorry I don't know how to respond to the rest of your message I w...

Thank you very much! I'm glad to be here! I'm 38, a woman, and I'm in the U.S. Nice to meet you! I noticed I made a bunch of typos in that post title (doh!) but I'm interested to see the results. Fro...

Not hiding it is a big step! It takes a lot of the fear out of speaking, and the fear tends to make the blocks worse. One of my things is that I'm still carrying a lot of internal shame about my disfl...

Thank you. Actually, I can also be very indirect so it’s possible she was referring to that habit. Also, while at that job, (separate from it), I discovered the key to gaining more fluency (don’t h...

>how would you describe stuttering? perhaps my description is an issue where one is attracted to monitoring / evaluating one's speech errors emotionally and feeling satisfied to block articulators...

I would say disclosing it is good, listing it as a weakness is bad. I did manager training for my job and was asked what my weaknesses are. I said my anxiety and my stutter. Ever since then it has bee...

How do you feel that you didn’t outgrow stuttering and yours persisted? Been struggling with this concept lately:(

How do you feel that you didn’t outgrow stuttering and yours persisted? Been struggling with this concept lately:( [deleted]...

>Any advice Some stutterers are unable to bring the message quickly and effectively which makes you more depressed, whereas others do. My advice is, if you believe that you can do it, then this i...

No, I probably wouldn't list it all in that way. In fact, I would say that it can be a strength. You've spent your life overcoming communication challenges and fears as well as developing skills to mi...

Hmmm… did your colleagues think that about you? It was it just you thinking that about you? (I think most ppl don’t think about it as much as we do.)...

No! Because it's not a weakness. List it as a strength!!! Disclosing is great! Takes the pressure off you, which can reduce the severity of your stutter. Let's the interviewers know what's going if/...

I ask myself this same question everyday because I felt it held me back for years. This year, I told myself I was going to change that, go out more, speak my mind even if people laugh at me. I make my...

Yeah, speaking to an authority figure is often problematic. I think the key thing in what you just wrote is when people "value themselves". Having a job with higher status might lead you to value your...

As Joseph Sheehan mentioned a pws has to speak to someone who is always in authority like boss teacher and friends ofcourse the perception of me "they are more successful then me". Eventually they are...

Yeah, I suppose the label can change if your speech improves, and your self image will change as well. So with lots of work I went from being someone who could barely string two words together so some...

Okay interesting 🤔 I was thinking eventually if you work on the speech down the line you have to change the label. If you read psycho cybernetics it's interesting book about self image. And probably ...

Do you mean the label of 'Stutterer'? I don't give it much thought to be honest. If it's relevant I'll say "I tend to stammer" (that word is more commonly used where I'm from), rather than saying "I'm...