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I mostly agree with you, but I mean, this is a stuttering support group so that's kinda what people are here for. Just to vent and get it out of our systems. I can't hide my stutter, and I can barely...

This disability is incessant and more overt than others, which bodes poorly for us. On the bright side, having a stutter allows you to ascertain who’s a piece of shit and who’s not. A lot of peopl...

Stop blaming the stutter

Stop blaming the stutter Stuttering is a bit insidious. It's a disability. And it's not a disability. You don't see it. It's easily concealed. Its impact and weight are greater in the mind of the pers...

im tired

im tired Im just tired of always being the silent one, when I tried to speak its never like "he has good opinion on this topic" or " i will talk with him about this more because, i like him" its alway...

There is clearly a biological/genetic basis to stuttering. Stuttering is not caused by a virus, so a medical cure is not what you're really looking for. The motivation to change the way you speak an...

I genuinely appreciate it. I’m in my 20’s so learning to love who I am can be a struggle but I’m working on it. How old are you?...

Welp I’ll tell you that the road to where I am is hard and sad. A life full of regrets and missed opportunities because of being sensitive about my stuttering. So if this old man can give you some a...

I felt like this my entire life! I usually stay super quiet so people don’t have to hear me stutter, so I struggled with socializing or making friends. Eventually, I just sort of accepted that I was...

In a pinch sure, but if you use it as a trick everytime you block it will generalize and gunk up your speech pattern even more than it already is. Just about all abnormal behaviors in our speech come ...

There are treatments but unfortunately no cure. And the treatments vary according to the individual. I wish I could have accepted my stutter better when I was younger, instead of avoidance, frustra...

one day i want to wake up and forget what stuttering is...

Hi! I am an SLP who specializes in stuttering and I am also a person who stutters. Stuttering is a neurophysical condition that is so variable. For some, they will stutter consistently their whole liv...

Congrats. It’s possible that despite your stutter, you still sounded like you knew your stuff. Speech fluency is entirely separate from the content you are transmitting....

We’ve got your back, OP. 38yo male here who has been stuttering his whole life. Feel free to come back and just report on how it’s going!...

I think I would have been an introvert regardless, if you were forced into being an introvert due to stuttering, you were always going to feel that something is missing, and you wouldn't have felt con...

Can we explore cyclical nature here. Does introverted causes stuttering or stuttering is so much pain that you choose to be an introvert. I am a stutterer and can call me an introvert. But there is a ...

Being an introvert makes stuttering so much easier to bear

Being an introvert makes stuttering so much easier to bear Most of the activities I do everyday involves little to no communication with people, My job? all I do is sitting in front of a screen combin...

Your English is very good. I hope you go into high school letting people see your personality. Don't hide it and try to hide your stutter. Let them see you for who you are and if you stutter, it is ho...

If your prospective employers are not properly trained SLPs, then they cannot possibly know why you are taking so long to answer questions and *appear* extra extra nervous. I just interviewed last ...

I’ve studied various types of human behaviour analogy and something that comes to mind here is that people that like you will mirror you. Whether it’s the colour clothes you wear, how you walk, talk a...