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Oh man, I feel you. I use the classic turn a word into a phrase trick (ie. Hitchhike = walking on the side of the road and asking people to pick me up) or if I can't even get that out "what's that wor...

Yeah for me I get this lazer clear focus and I know exactly what to say and how to say it. I know how it's gonna come out like and that I won't stutter. Its weird how some people stutter less when the...

I am also similar to this. For me, I am more calm in formal scenarios because there is an expectation of how to speak/talk/act. Everyone around you is on a level playing field and is bound by these ex...

Mine's a bit of a mix really. I don't stutter at all in job interviews and the doctor's but I'm an absolute mess on phone calls at work. Loads of pauses and what I'm trying to say just comes out like ...

I'm mostly the same way. I do still stutter to my doctor but not as much. ...

Does anyone else not stutter in formal situations?

Does anyone else not stutter in formal situations? I don't stutter in job interviews, doctors appointments, debates or formal presentations. Anything non casual, if I really focus I don't stutter. I h...

> Something I've recently started doing in the last year or so is flat-out telling someone (be it on the phone, in person, on online dating profiles, whatever) that I stutter. Maddeningly enough, f...

No problem! Something I've recently started doing in the last year or so is flat-out *telling* someone (be it on the phone, in person, on online dating profiles, whatever) that I stutter. Maddeningly...

I do that all the time, especially job interviews. It's easier to address it right away. Otherwise people tend to think I'm a moron. Some do anyway, but I can't control that...

You can struggle without showing disfluency. This is what happens to covert stutters who hide their stuttering. On the outside they pass for fluent but on the inside it's a nonstop tumult of anxiety a...

I don't generally offer it pre-emptively, but I am very open about it. Honestly, it short circuits some of my anxiety. If you can grow to be comfortable discussing it, it can help to keep the great a...

You should try it out! Definitely experimenting with self-advertisement is a good thing to do. I usually do not self-advertise unless the person asks me about it, but I know people that do and they ...

Depends on how it makes you feel? If you e.g. feel like you have to work extra hard to hide it constantly, because otherwise everything would fall apart, that'd be a bad thing, I'm sure....

I personally would find that fairly embarrassing. For some reason I don't really admit to myself that I actually do have quite a bad stammer. I dunno if thats a good thing or not....

>I overheard my manager saying to the district manager, "She's doing really well, we're working on her customer assistance, but she seems to be stuttering a lot, which is fine I guess. We will work...

When I was in school (I’m 27 now) I felt the way you do. I tried so hard to hide my stutter, avoiding presentations and never answering questions in class. I eventually had my parents get me a 504, wh...

This. I think that's why we don't "see" people. It's not a visible disorder all the time. It's not like being in a wheelchair where you are always in a wheelchair when you are in public. Stuttering is...

The reason you don't see more people stuttering is because it's embarrassing and I know for the longest time I'd just not talk to people, or go out into public ...

I never tell people that i stutter, when i talk with them I don't know what they think about me, but 99% of the time they are suprised when it comes out that i stutter, either by me telling them or s...

My 'strategy' I've been using for quite some time now: be very open about your stuttering!

My 'strategy' I've been using for quite some time now: be very open about your stuttering! I'm 22 now and I've been stuttering for pretty much my entire life, but my 'level' of stuttering has always f...