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Only way to overcome that is to expose yourself to speaking on the phone. I was exactly like you all throughout my teens and early 20s. Now I'm 35 and speak on the phone all the time for my job and pe...

Anxiety 100% has a huge impact on stuttering severity. Most people who stutter stutter much less or not at all when talking to themselves. However, there's good news, if you have developed a stutter...

Interviews friggin' suck when you're young and/or inexperienced. I will give you that, for sure. Also, they're a high-pressure situation that causes a lot of anxiety, which makes stuttering even worse...

I have smoked weed and it tends to make my stutter worse. I guess it all depends on the person and what they are thinking and feeling at the time. I’m pretty much an anxiety filled person, so I found ...

I have issues in the phones…

I have issues in the phones… Whenever now a days when I’m on the phone my heart starts to beat fast and get anxiety When a person finally picks up I can barely get my words out and black like crazy ...

Do you know why you stutter?

Do you know why you stutter? My dad has a stutter, so I suspect I may have developed one no matter what, but I also think a big part of the reason is severe anxiety as a little kid. Before I was 4, I...

Anyone know how to manage this type of stutter

Anyone know how to manage this type of stutter I’m gonna try and describe it the best I can ,my stutter is when I want to say a word my lips kind of press together and the words can’t come out and I k...

I only stutter when I speak to people, when I am alone and talk to myself, I don’t stutter at all and can speak well

I only stutter when I speak to people, when I am alone and talk to myself, I don’t stutter at all and can speak well It’s so infuriating. My social anxiety has definitely made me stutter a lot. I can ...

Yep just shows how hard life is for us when such a simple thing as ordering from a machine at a drive thru is such a massive deal, the fear and anxiety it causes... Well done, and hopefully you carr...

Well done! I do the drive through regularly as an anxiety maintenance technique. Just so I always know I can....

Have you guys ever thought about how your life would be without stutter ?

Have you guys ever thought about how your life would be without stutter ? I haven’t made any friends or even barely spoken during my high school years, every time when I was required to speak I felt l...

I felt exactly like you when I was at school, i am 20 yo now and study in med university, it's just a really hard phase of life, school is a hell place, you just need to get through this, and stutter...

Need to find a Job

Need to find a Job Just turned 18 and about to enter Uni next year, but a few dollars could really help my family out. My situation is that I live in Latin America and stuttering is looked at as a jo...

Try pracricing to yourself ar home or on your way home. The no.1 enemy for us is SOCIAL ANXIETY. Once you get thru that, words come out freely. Dont care about other people. Believe in yourself. I got...

Possibly. I’m not scared of him but I do get very anxious around him cuz he judges everything I do...

I have a feeling you may fear him, or maybe the trauma from the abuse triggers you to stutter when you talk to him. Could be a subconscious thing....

Speech therapy definitely helps some, not all. You will never know unless you try. But seeing a regular therapist is a good idea too, you get to unleash on someone how you are feeling, should definite...

I hate high school and being a teenager

I hate high school and being a teenager Im 16M, and honestly, im so tired of this shit... Everyday in school is suffering: first, the anxiety that i will get picked out to read out loud, and then the ...

I think a classmate may stutter covertly

I think a classmate may stutter covertly Hey everyone, I had an interesting realization today. Around a week ago I was in class (college, relatively large about 70 students), and someone asked the pr...

Personally, marijuana makes me stutter like crazy. Could be because of the anxiety/paranoia it induces....