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I can heavily related to this, while talking to myself or reading a book. I don't stutter, but when it comes to public speaking I stutter. It gets worse when I'm concious about it, and with each time ...

Before I used to ignore it as well. But now(I'm 16M) I am also starting to get tired of it, it's starting to mentally burn me. I totally understand you. The effort of trying to just be normal, is just...

I relate to this. My worst stutter is me getting blocked after a question is asked. Whenever, someone asks my last name it takes \~5 seconds to get it out. Being met with the "did you have to think ab...

I'm tired

I'm tired I'm just tired... It is not stuttering itself that's making me tired, it is the mental effort I exert everyday to speak as normal as possible. When I became 17 years old (I'm 21 now), I thou...

The best advice that worked for me is to disclose your stutter either by email before and/or at the beginning of the interview. This allows you to not worry as much about stuttering and instead focus ...

You grew up funny lol I wasn't inspected for anything, I avoided speaking at all, something happen f*ck it, I'd rather stay silent and not embarass myself than go after it, but there were situation wh...

I think at the beginning of my journey talking about my stutter was really important, helped me to understand that it’s really not as big a deal as I thought and that other people really aren’t bother...

Do what feels right. Stick with it - you might find that hiding yourself takes a lot more energy than dropping the fear. You have my support!...

I've had similar stories. People telling me to speak louder to seem more confident, blah blah. It's sometimes easy to believe that we somehow must compensate for our stuttering. But that's the worst t...

I feel you! I send voice messages in texting on a daily basis as I really love its simplicity and how I can express myself more. I stutter, of course, sometimes more, sometimes less. But I rarely dare...

Hi! I'm very interested in that ARTS therapy, can you elaborate on it more? In the past I used to believe stuttering could be overcome and I struggled a lot with it. Then I found the term "open stutte...

Feedback on your Silent Strength | Partnering with the National Stuttering Assocation

Feedback on your Silent Strength | Partnering with the National Stuttering Assocation Hey everyone, I’m working on a project with the National Stuttering Association called *Silent Strength*—a series...

This is what changed the game for me. No one cares about your stutter as much as you do. And they react way more to how you react to your stutter than the stutter itself. If you can even fake it til...

I noticed this on myself too. When I feel relaxed, for example on holidays, I stutter more (or maybe I stutter as I would normally do - but precisely because I’m relaxed and I think my stutter should ...

I used to stutter less in my non-native language. Because I was living abroad for the first time. It was fun, I was a brand new person nobody knew me there. I could be ME, with a new personality. I di...

Frankly it depends, I speak Arabic and French and I stutter in both, it will really depend on the periods and in what situation I am but it is true that I lose my skills in Arabic more quickly, especi...

I stutter around my mom THE most. Its because Im not embarrassed when i stutter around her so I dont try to avoid to stutter I just do it comfortably. For example i don’t worry about talking fast or t...

Stuttering is only disability in the planet which people try to mask....

>so make everything else worth it and the stuttering will not matter at all. That sounds like overcompensating and its not a good thing...

I’m not OP, but what you said about the context of your stutter and insecurity hit home. I’ve been through that—even when I went to HCRI treatment years ago, I was 100% fluent after two weeks there. T...