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I am 20 years old and have had a mild-severe stutter for as long as I can remember. I was put in speech therapy in 2nd grade, and stopped middle of 8th. Roughly 6 years of speech therapy. Here's the l...

Absolutely not! I’ve learned to embrace stuttering as part of who I am. For me, that’s like saying gain nothing or lose an arm....

Omg same !! Reading aloud is the worst it’s when I really notice my stutter and have to come to terms with Having one 💔...

I do. I just found this sub because I was looking for advice and trying to find out why I stutter....

Honestly no, my stutter--severe as it is-- has shaped a lot about me and my life. I feel that it magically went away, no matter what the trade off was, it would make me less of myself and take away a ...

Masking your stuttering is highly UNRECOMMENDED in Avoidance Behaviour Therapy which is included in speech therapy for stuttering, because masking your stuttering indicates you are afraid of exposing ...

When I stumbled upon scores of studies about the brain differences between PWS' and normal speakers' brains, I also came out this question that are they the cause of the consequence. But stuttering i...

It can be depressing…it was for me as well but it was also kind of a relief. I was able to accept that’s who I was that’s who I am, I can’t hide it, i’m going stutter my whole life. It’s difficult b...

I think I was super lucky. Including myself, I had 3 people in my high school class who stuttered. Ironically one of the stutterers made fun of me when I would stutter. Since HS though, I haven’t met...

Do y'all ever think about who would y'all be if you didn't stutter?

Do y'all ever think about who would y'all be if you didn't stutter? [removed]...

I’m a deputy, honestly it does have an impact. Coworkers know about it, people I come in contact with know about it, but honestly it doesn’t change much. I just do what I do and don’t take anything pe...

I'm not saying the stats are wrong, but when I was a kid, I was the only one that I knew who stuttered. Is this counting degrees of the disability and if so, to what degree? As an adult, I've only met...

I'm a signalling electrician for a city railway network. My job description states excellent communication skills required. Everyone even has to do a communication course on the phonetic alphabet etc ...

To establish a 'healthy' social circle, you should befriend those who can accept you, who also tend to be good friends, instead of those who are labelled as 'inferior' to you by yourself, and you shou...

"Do you want to just write it down"

"Do you want to just write it down" I hate when it reaches that point. It feels like I've failed, completely, at such a fundementally basic task. I appreciate they're trying to help, and yes I would...

Hypnosis

Hypnosis My therapist mentioned he could try hypnosis on me for my stutter. Anyone try this? There has to be something that can put our mind at ease and change our thinking patterns. Imagine totally f...

Someone wants to review my personal essay?

Someone wants to review my personal essay? So yeah what the caption says, I am writing a personal essay about my speech disability and how I gradually worked with it but I don’t think it’s good enough...

The balding part is easy. Shave it all. Not that you should have to do that. But it's a quick and easy way to have a clean haircut, and take your balding concern off the table. I promise you that you...

Got much better for me around age 19, I was even on four episodes of TV at age 20 and didn't stutter once, after stuttering badly since age 5. Has never completely gone away but has decreased dramatic...

I’ve thought about this. I’ll find myself speaking clearly then remember I stutter and it returns...