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Hey mate if you don't stutter alone then this is 100% curable and it's just a neurological pathway problem. Your fight , fright , flee response gets activated when you talk to strangers and thus resul...

Same, sometimes it's repetition, sometimes block, sometimes just saying words in a weird way. I never know so speech disability explains it the best....

I can't say the word "stutter" but I think it's the most accurate description so that's what I say. Or try to say lol. For some reason a lot of blends are extra tough for me and I get stuck between ...

A lot of times people associate stuttering with anxiety/nervousness (when I'm not) for me, so I just say speech impediment or disorder....

Have always hated uttering the word stammer but that’s what I describe it as…what the word conveys and how it has impacted on me are poles apart...

I personally say speech disability, even when I know I'd be able to say stutter. It's just the most fitting for me, especially because I feel like the social preconception of a stutter is "that speech...

What do you introduce your "stutter" as?

What do you introduce your "stutter" as? Stutter is obviously a hard word for a lot of us to say. Whoever made that the name had a sick sense of humor. So, what do you call your stutter? as in, what's...

I was being more or less facetious because technically we have a disability that stems from our brains…therefore “mental disability”. I know we are smarter than all the commoners lol...

Of course I agree with the fact it has zero effect on intelligence. However technically, we have a disability that is in our mind. Hence why I call it a mental disability....

Stammering tends to manifest in the context of formative years and can colour the narrative of a lifetime. From my own experience this has been a blend of negative critical judgement, perceived or exp...

The faster you embrace it, the better. As soon as I embraced it as part of who I am, my life instantly improved. I feel like my fluency improved almost overnight as well. All that anxiety and stress a...

The time I "stopped" stuttering because a ball hit my jaw

The time I "stopped" stuttering because a ball hit my jaw I've had a stutter since I can remember, although my parents say I developed it when I was a 5-6 yo. It's not very extreme, but it's still bad...

Stutterers aren't mentally disabled. Sometimes people act like we are, but it's literally just a speech impediment. Has nothing whatsoever to do with intelligence....

I could relate to your post (totally) except the words Mentally Disabled Mentally Disabled, a little too drastic Even with my problem, I still think I’m smarter than most...

I hate to admit to others that I stutter. I ~~feel~~ know it places me in an immediate inferior position in the other person's mind. Subconsciously (for well intended people) and consciously (for evil...

Professional writer looking for an inside view into stuttering

Professional writer looking for an inside view into stuttering Hi r/Stutter! My name is Nicolas Lietzau, and I'm a professional game writer and novelist. I'm currently working on the second book of m...

Yeah stuttering has essentially ruined my social life. Not that I don't have close friends and not that people don't like me, but what people see me as is only a small piece of what I'm thinking, how ...

For sure, I'm a bit of a late bloomer but I remember suddenly getting comfortable befriending and speaking with women when I was 17 or so. It seemed like such a huge obstacle before. I try not to let ...

I met my SO on Hinge. We hit it off over text, and when we started making plans to meet, I dropped a “by the way, I have a stutter. Sometimes it’s difficult for me to speak when I’m first getting to k...

This is a tough one. A personal story here...I was married before,ironically to a mild stutterer, so she was understanding of my limitations. But before her and after her have been a bit of a struggle...