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Does anybody use a DAF device and have success with it?

Does anybody use a DAF device and have success with it? Before I get started here, let me just say that I'm new to this subreddit and BOY am I glad I discovered it! I don't have any family, friends or...

Yes, I just want to speak with stutter in discord, and my English is not very well...

I know the very basics, but am not at all fluent (even without the stutter, lol). Are you Israeli?...

Has anyone here achieved fluency or come close to it? If so, how?

Has anyone here achieved fluency or come close to it? If so, how? There's probably been a million of these kind of posts already, but whatever. I've recently gotten motivated to work on my stutter af...

Can I be a (successful) politician with a really bad stutter?

Can I be a (successful) politician with a really bad stutter? [deleted]...

What you describe is common. If we have a certain "mental bandwidth", in our native language more bandwidth is freed up for creating fluent speech. We don't have to concentrate as hard so we can all...

Portuguese speaker here. In portuguese I would classify my stutter as mild, but in english it does flares up, like you said. But things weren't like this always, a few years back I used english more o...

My stutter fluctuates. I do a lot of work on the phone at my job, and some days my sentences are basically "Hi - um- this -um - is..." as I use "um" to get past blocks. Other days I am better. I would...

Depends on how severe your stuttering is. When you stutter severely it impedes your ability to communicate, which has a negative effect on the jobs you can do. Which makes you lose opportunities which...

It's not an advantage at all--sure, it can make you unique for a while, but after that people will be tired of listening to you, since you keep stuttering costantly. But that's my point: yes, stutteri...

Start speech therapy again, it won't cure you, but it helps, and even a mild improve can make a lot to your daily life. A psychologist might help too, not directly with your stutter but with all the a...

Life with a bad stutter is playing life on hard mode. You need to stop comparing yourself with fluent people, because having a bad stutter is quite a disability. First try to do everything you can to ...

I still stutter every day, but I can work my way around it and such. It was way worse when I was in elementary school, and gets worse when I'm nervous/anxious. ...

They told me that and later told me I would have a peak in severity but it would get less later. Biggest mistake ever, I put my social life on hold because of this and ofcourse it never happened....

It just got better with time. As I got older I cared less what others thought of me so the pressure to be fluent disappeared. I still stutter and do it every day but I don't care nearly as much and it...

I feel like my stuttering is getting worse, I'm almost 20....

Did your stutter just get better with time? I'm almost 20, and I feel like my stutter is getting worse than when I was a kid. I barely talk anymore....

I was told that until I was maybe 8 years old. I stutter a lot less now at 37. Teens and 20s were the worst....

My dad actually grew out of his stutter to a large degree. He used to not even be able to string two words together as a teenager. Now he just stutters on about one out of every 50 words. Most people ...

Anyone told they would grow out of their stutter?

Anyone told they would grow out of their stutter? When I was going into 4th grade at a new public school, they had the speech therapist lady come and check me out and she said that I'd grow out of my ...