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I wish I had thought of the years ago. I have spent most of my life trying to speak in a way that is expected of me. There are times I can have a short interaction with a person and they won’t even he...

I used to work a lot on my speech to make folk comfortable- including myself. But when I realised that my problem with my speech was that I had internalised all these negative things about speaking sl...

Agreed. I’d much rather save my energy- both physical and mental- for those genuinely interested in what I have to say, Stutter or not. ...

Thank you so much for your great insights on this. I too stopped giving a fuck about what other people think about the same time that I stopped trying to hide my stuttering. It’s far easier to just st...

Very well said, nuke! You always have a great way of wording things. >I don't have the resources to also care about them, since I'm already very involved in speaking. Exactly my feelings. This is...

Agreed. I don't care about others like that - really, I don't have the resources to _also_ care about them, since I'm already very involved in speaking. Of course, we could talk about indirect goals,...

>“For years we have gone to speech therapy to change the way we speak to make it more comfortable for others. Can't speak for everyone, but that was never my motivation for going to speech therapy...

I think it's a great idea, but only if you really go for it. You can't half ass it and pull out when things start to feel uncomfortable. I would say after you do a few, change to goal to having it aw...

I'm 35, I stuttered severely as a child. At the surface it sounds... Odd I guess. You might learn about the ways other people react, but for me it is the cumulative experiences that you have (oh not ...

I met her online and we texted a lot. We then later started skyping and while I tried to hide my stutter by avoiding bad words she of course noticed it anyways but genuinely didn't care. On the contr...

I was wondering, how you can get a girlfriend if you have these struggles to even express yourself and a lot of avoidance behaviours. How the heck does this happen? I have a mild stutter and sometimes...

I had similar therapy. Was life changing for me. Opening up to friends and family was hard, but so rewarding. Feeling free to stutter openly and not live in fear of the next stutter is a beautiful thi...

My experiences during stutter therapy

My experiences during stutter therapy #1 Introduction First of all, I'd like to introduce myself. I'm a 27 year old student, hopfully finishing my masters soon. Studying engineering, I often need very...

I can tell you my life changed once I stopped letting my speech control what I do. Be honest with people and show them your speech doesn't bug you, and it won't bug them-- if you want to, give them a ...

It gets easier. At some point your desire to express yourself and get shit done exceeds the desire to reach some arbitrary value of social normality. You'll stop caring so much about what others think...

Yup! 1) All of those letters are consonants, so it seems like you are trying to emphasize those letters too much, you're causing tension which is making you block. So, you should try light touches/e...

I thought the same way when I tought about joining the military.communication is key for being in the infantry. After about a few months in I stopped caring about my stutter and it's gotten alot bett...

I know how you feel. There are tons of scary stuff just out of high school. I also have a pretty heavy stutter, took an bachelor in psychology and thought to myself that "I can just work as a research...

My stuttering and anxiety only improved when I stopped avoiding speaking situations. When we find a way to get around speaking we reenforce the stuttering narrative. There will be a time you have to s...

My worst years were teenager and into college. After graduating and setting down, my speech got better (no speech therapy) with confidence and less stress and anxiety. My speech got better as i accept...