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I believe there are a couple of types of stammering, but not very many. The most common is developmental stammering which appears in childhood. That doesn't mean that you need to have had obvious dysf...

Anyone else feel weird listening to other people stutter?

Anyone else feel weird listening to other people stutter? I’ve been taking taking this storytelling course online and I can tell the instructor has a very mild stutter than I’m assuming most people wo...

I'm 36 and I dealt with this when I was in school. What was terribly intimidating as a young man is now a non-issue as an adult. I regularly brief Colonels and other high ranking officers and I still ...

What even is stammering anyway?

What even is stammering anyway? Hi all, I know it's a bit long but please bear with me. I have never really voiced these questions before, especially not to other stammerers. I wasn't sure how to phr...

I have a friend that said that growing up, he had a friend that stuttered. My friend said that he always thought stuttering was cool, so he would fake a stutter. And he would fake a lisp because he th...

How do you feel when people call your stutter “cute”?

How do you feel when people call your stutter “cute”? I mention that I have a stutter in my dating app profiles. Someone messaged me saying “I think stutters are cute” or something along those lines. ...

I have anxiety anyway so developing a mindset around stuttering that wasn't based on shame made a huge difference for me. I actually think of this r/stutter as a support group in a way. For most p...

Here’s how I see it. And I consider myself a rather confident stutterer. It’s a neurological condition I can only control to a point. I try and use fluency techniques, but I’m going to stutter, and th...

Don’t let it hold you back. It’ll only keep you from doing interesting stuff and really growing and enjoying life. I’ve got a moderate to severe stutter depending on the day. I used to think I could n...

Wowww, thank you for providing this real eye opener. When you say stutters have a completely different cognitive experience to non-stutters, how does the experience for a person who has gone through ...

You are the man Tom! I like how you mentioned stuttering as a complex of a series of cognitive deficits. Most of us stutterers like myself also have adhd, ocd, and “handwriting jerks/blocks”. But coul...

In my personal approach to '*speach confidence'* is letting myself stutter certainly a factor.I believe that this confidence you are looking for is a combination of many things. This is how I see i...

BE confident!! Your stutter DOES NOT define who you are! Get outside of your comfort zone and DO IT!

BE confident!! Your stutter DOES NOT define who you are! Get outside of your comfort zone and DO IT! ...

*Continuation:* # A completely different cognitive experience Reading these studies changed the way I understand stuttering. Before I learned about the neurological studies surrounding stuttering, I...

I’m 23F the only one in the family who has a stutter. It’s mild I’d say I’ve always stuttered here and there but for many years I was actually fine! Senior year I moved to a different school and becam...

Is there a way I can change the way I stutter?

Is there a way I can change the way I stutter? So when I feel a block I normally don’t stutter like how most people do. I either pause, say uhm, or keep repeating the word (not syllable) and then paus...

Thank you! I’m 17 so I’m still in that “needing to grow a pair phase” which I’m slowly developing. If I could be confident with this stutter I’d be set for my life tho...

I'm a stuttering veteran but after the graduation from junior school I recovered a lot from it.

I'm a stuttering veteran but after the graduation from junior school I recovered a lot from it. I'm hoping my experience demonstrations can get someone some clues about what stutter is and how to reco...

Don't have any advice but just wanted to say that I feel like I could've written this. So much of "personality" is based on how well you can verbally express your thoughts and it becomes easy to lose ...

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Quote This guy I chatted with earlier texted me : You might be interested in a quotation by a non-stutterer from a letter written many years ago by Thomas Carlyle, the historian, to Ralph Waldo Emer...