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Why I Don't Advertise Anymore

Why I Don't Advertise Anymore I've had a significant stutter for as long as I can remember. When I was a kid in speech therapy, my speech therapist always told me to "advertise" that I have a stutter....

I came to a point that it doesn't bother me anymore that people lift an eye brow, or look a bit strange when they hear me stutter. I can imagine that they do that. I can be totaly fluent for a while ...

What I mean by curing it is, making it pretty much invisible. Look at Emily Blunt, she had a stutter, check her interviews now, flawless. I mean to a point where I can just talk without having to thin...

There is no cure for stuttering. Stutterers will always be stutterers. People can sometimes reduce stuttering by eliminating unnecessary anxiety and learning to stutter more efficiently, which makes b...

People's facial expressions throw me off. Anyone else get this?

People's facial expressions throw me off. Anyone else get this? I can speak to my sister with like 90%-95% fluency, but when im talking to a stranger or specific people I find it much harder. My best ...

I generally smile and say I stutter if somebody brings it up or asks me what's wrong. Otherwise I just smile and carry on talking....

How I mostly beat my stutter

How I mostly beat my stutter Ok. I've been wanting to post this for a while. Forward: please don't read this like a humblebrag or something - it's not meant to be, and this is a throwaway. I remember ...

What had the biggest positive impact on you opening up about your stuttering and eliminating avoidances? Any successful stories or defining moments that stood out to you?

What had the biggest positive impact on you opening up about your stuttering and eliminating avoidances? Any successful stories or defining moments that stood out to you? For previously covert adults ...

Law 18: Do Not Build Fortresses to Protect Yourself

Law 18: Do Not Build Fortresses to Protect Yourself Social avoidance feels safe. But in reality being closer to more people is safer. Stuttering for me was partly about avoiding being rejected. > ...

Confused, chance to change my whole life but ..

Confused, chance to change my whole life but .. Hello guys, Im having a very intense stuttering and thats ruinning my life in many parts, i"ve lost any respect for myself. When im facing anything, i'...

Aw hey man, don't be so down on yourself. A lot of stutters have physical tics attached to our disfluency. I, for one, can't keep eye contact, whatsoever. I've tried very hard to train myself out of i...

I say um all the damn time. I mainly do it because I silently block for fucking ages and I need to let people know I'm still in the conversation. That being said I pull faces when I block now so I'l...

Who else hasn't stuttered for most of their life?

Who else hasn't stuttered for most of their life? Because of issues that I would rather not discuss, I developed a stutter (non-existent to extremely severe depending on the situation) around two year...

How do I deal with the fear of not being able to get a word out at all?

How do I deal with the fear of not being able to get a word out at all? I've been a covert stutterer for as long as I've stuttered (around 2 years). However, I've been trying to desensitize myself to ...

Your stuttering is mild enough that you are able to hide it in your basement. For many of us that isn't possible. edit: > YOU SHOULD WANT/NEED to talk to someone. This got me thinking. I don't ...

My stutter is something that makes me unique. It's something I love working on improving, but hate when I let it limit something I want to say or do. I believe my stutter is a very small part of my ...

Man I was a master of substitution a year ago - now I just feel like shit whenever I catch myself doing it. It's the avoidance tactic that I'm working on stopping the most. You definitely cannot a...

My first bf was a good friend of mine before we get a relation. He didn't mind at all. I was also a covert stutterer, but good friends knew about it, also he knew. When I met my second bf I was ope...

I've been married now for forever, but back when I was younger, I was mostly covert, meaning that I went through great lengths to keep my stutter a secret. This basically meant guys were only meeting ...

I don't believe that stuttering is something that you overcome, rather it's something that you learn to deal with. I have a moderate stutter and until this year, I always used to hide it. I'm 35. It f...