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Finding strength to be and stay optimistic despite having a stutter

Finding strength to be and stay optimistic despite having a stutter Stuttering has plagued my life to the point where I can't speak a single coherent sentence without stuttering. It has ruined potenti...

Hey dudes, just wanted to share something

Hey dudes, just wanted to share something So I've been stuttering for as long as I can remember, but as of now, it's not holding me back nearly as much as it used to. This might be super trivial knowl...

In my experience, women are more likely to be covert than men. ...

Its a sad situation and a real shame about the fast food worker, but that doesn't have to be you. Even looking around this subreddit you'll see plenty of examples of people pursuing what they want and...

I may well have got lucky, but I've never had much of a problem in interviews with my stutter - I always flag it up at the start, and if I get badly stuck, I'll often make a quick jokey aside ("I hope...

Has anybody here ever pursued discrimination litigation against a company because of their stutter?

Has anybody here ever pursued discrimination litigation against a company because of their stutter? Was wondering if anyone here has ever pursued legal litigation against a company for workplace discr...

random interjections are poor speech mechanics. There's no need for them. They're a learned behavior, even for us stutterers. That said, if she was a covert stutterer I do feel sympathy for her since ...

Finally going to Speech Therapy.

Finally going to Speech Therapy. Hey guys, Well I finally got in touch with my university's Communications Disorders Clinic and will be starting speech therapy sessions in July! I have had therapy bef...

The one thing that helps me is the realization that people forget! I'm sure that the person who I spoke earlier to is already forgetting that embarassing stutter I had. Why? Because people don't care...

I will admit that it is not easy and it takes some time. I still find myself caring some of the time. But for me, I try to work on my confidence. I don't know about you but I stutter a lot less when I...

Realizing that people care a lot less than I thought they did. Nobody is perfect. Everybody has their own personal flaws. Once I realized that most people don't care about me stuttering, that made me ...

I got it when I was 16. I just applied online and got called in. I thought I was going to have an interview but they just had a stack of paperwork for me to fill out and I walked out with my nametag. ...

Hey Daniel, good on you for taking action! I'm doing avoidance reduction therapy where I work on eliminating all my junk behaviors and try to stutter clean and free. Through this process im also lear...

How to Learning a Second Language?

How to Learning a Second Language? So I'm an American trying to learn Spanish. I also have a very severe stutter. Bilingual stutterers who didn't learn from birth, how'd you do it? I use DuoLingo, but...

When I'm at a bar, and I get approached, I always give my middle name. My first name is too difficult to say, and if I attempted it they would either think I'm drunk or stupid, so I just avoid it all...

I loved the part about not stuttering among strangers. I am completely the same. Around people who I don't know very well my stutter becomes much less visible. There are people I know and meet occasi...

I completely get you. I am really outgoing person, I enjoy talking to people, meeting new people, I even enjoy concept of public speaking but my stuttering is destroying that part of me. As much as ...

The more I think about it the more I realize...

The more I think about it the more I realize... I've been avoiding social situations because of my stutter I've always been a person to shy away from big social gatherings. I figure I do have some le...

When I try to hide it, it shows mainly because i'm thinking about it. Sometimes i'll be fast enough to use a synonym instead. If i'm not fast enough then i'll just sssstutter or pause and seem like i'...

Yes, of course I try to hide my stutter. In many situations it works out well. I've had co-workers that I talk to nearly every day that have no clue I stutter. Yet, I have clients that I barely speak ...