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The Key to Escaping Our Lifelong Battle

The Key to Escaping Our Lifelong Battle **© \[Austen Siegler\], \[2025\]. All rights reserved.** This document contains proprietary intellectual property and original material developed by the au...

I don't stutter when reading anything in my head but whenever I think of speaking the same sentence in front of other people, deep inside my mind I feel like I won't be able to speak this and I create...

I think every pws has had similar experiences.. I did my presentations and I stuttered through it because I didnt want to handicap myself. I a stubborn Fin and we don't bend easily so of course im goi...

I was in the same boat about MEPS… Like I was absolutely terrified but its all straight forward and honestly its nice that you barely have to talk much there lol. They just look at your name tag when ...

I am going to MEPS in probably the next two weeks. My recruiter thinks I will be fine but I'm terrified of locking up so bad and not even being able to get one word out. Thanks for sharing that they s...

I am 35 years old and after a few good years in my late 20’s when my stutter became quite minimal it reared its head again after a very stressful period in my life around 32 years old. My job is very ...

I am shipping out to army basic training on Monday with a stutter!! You can do anything you want if you put your mind to it, I know it sounds cliche lol but its true. Even at MEPS I stuttered terribly...

The way i see it the block just comes and goes but how we feel about it lasts. There's this onset and what happens next is easier to see as a mental game. The less we care the easier, like a finger ...

I don’t dwell on it unless I have a rare event/situation coming up where I know it will be a problem (work introductions or presentations, for example, but these are very rare). But even without usua...

Hey! I experienced something similar but with a remission period of almost 15 years. It comes as a shock. It will take time to make peace with the identity of a person with a stutter. In my case, I lo...

how to get over a stuttering setback

how to get over a stuttering setback How do you get over a major stuttering episode? Some days are worse for me and most of the time i go around the words i struggle with. But when i can't, i struggle...

Hey pharmacist here. I take an sssri and bupropion. I can't say either has helped with the anxiety. But the ssri has definitely took away the depression and suicidal thoughts for me. SSRI/SNRIs don't ...

I think we are always susceptible to it from genetics or what have you but we can deal with it or become accustomed enough that the triggers start not being triggers in the same situations. Kinda lik...

Yeah when there is this feeling of anticipating the word that will block, it's like a loss of breath the moment we get to it sometimes. Like we were about to say it and it's lost in a vortex. It's s...

I am in my btech and about to sit in placements.. back before joining college I was shortlisted for SSB three times but I could not make it becoz of my stammer at that time .. even though before any m...

If you get this job, you are going to stutter at work. So if stuttering during the interview is going to be a dealbreaker for the employer, you might as well get it out of the way from the start....

How to overcome stuttering in the job interviews?

How to overcome stuttering in the job interviews? I am from Pakistan and I have a stammering problem since my childhood. Whenever I give job interviews, I stutter a alot due to anxiety and pressure s...

How to overcome stuttering during job interviews?

How to overcome stuttering during job interviews? I am from Pakistan and I have a stammering problem since my childhood. Whenever I give job interviews, I stutter a alot due to anxiety and pressure si...

Is this known or a new thing?

Is this known or a new thing? I've been trying new things to "cure" my stutter for the past couple of years. Some didn't work at all, some worked but not fully. Recently I've been trying to emulate ...

Comment #1: Summary of the research: *"Reactions and responses to anticipation of stuttering and how they contribute to stuttered speech that listeners perceive as fluent – An opinion paper"* (2023) ...