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With me it's a confidence issue. Sometimes when i put no pressure on myself to speak, i am fluent. When i put pressure on myself, i stammer more. If speaking is considered as an analog to sprinting, i...

I love kiosks but I think they have made younger generations of stutters, like myself, way more anxious...

oh. my. god. exactly this. "haha look, he forgot his name again" – yeah thanks for stealing the very last piece of confidence I had left in myself that wasn't drained yet by my panic attack from being...

As i am not a professional i cant really give you a scientific answer but in my experience every time I experience weeks or days of heavier stuttering than usual it typically is because i am anxious a...

Why am I stuttering so much lately?

Why am I stuttering so much lately? So lately, I’ve (20M) been stammering a lot, way more than I usually do, to the point where I end up freezing mid-conversation or whenever I try to start one and it...

Mind races while talking

Mind races while talking It's like when I talk, my brain start an avalanche of different words in my head, like suggesting different ways of saying what I want to say, leaving me confused and overwhel...

I don't know. People treat stuttering way differently than other disabilities. I have an uncle who's blind and for the most part people go out of their way to be helpful and kind and understanding to ...

Hey, I'm really sorry to hear that you've been through such challenging experiences growing up. It's understandable that your family background and the absence of strong connections with your sibling...

You will need friends dont lie to yourself. But also its likely you will be forever alone so either have split personalities, (be a social butterfly around people). Or be prepared to be depressed your...

What is the next step?

What is the next step? I'm almost 23(F). I come from a broken home,with 4 kids. My parents broke up when I was 6,dad moved out and left the country when I was 10,but they officially divorced when I...

I think it's the same for a lot of different issues, no one can control their thoughts in the moment. If I tell you "don't think about a red firetruck" you are going to think about a red firetruck. ...

I don't enjoy being laughed at, or people acting like I'm an idiot, but I think the thing I hate the most is making people feel awkward and uncomfortable. It's horrible and depressing to be unable to ...

I totally closed myself. Beside stutter, I have social phobia and some level of anhedonia, these days social anhedonia also so... Why bother? I know this is not the right approach, so I will get into ...

My school thinks the faster you answer and talk the more you’re prepared, when I was asked a rather difficult question in 9th grade I thought for 3 seconds and the teacher called someone else, it wasn...

College is nothing like high school. People are paying a lot of money to be there, not being forced to be there. You will be around actual adults and young adults so the maturity and emotional intel...

Tips for college

Tips for college I(18M) will be joining a college very soon and I have moderate to severe stutter. So give some your experiences when you were a fresher in college. I am definitely anxious about it ...

It seems to me that you paid a lot of attention to your speech at that moment. I don't know if when you spoke slowly, you were thinking about the words accompanied by some feeling. The issue of words...

So ive done this to myself. You literally get into your own head and make it worse. I've always been able to read, speak, sing, when I'm alone but when I really thought about it especially practicing ...

Never stuttered when alone, now I can't stop.

Never stuttered when alone, now I can't stop. I've been a lifelong stutterer, but one thing has always remained constant. When I read out loud, no matter what, pronouncing certain stutter inducing con...

I’m the same way. The absolute worst thing for me is going around a circle and having everyone introduce themselves and give a little bio in a professional setting. Like waiting in line for the gallow...