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commentr/StutterMar 28, 2025
2 points

I think you get used to everything in life, sales felt impossible for me at first but now it's not even a second thought.  Everything will have its trials and tribulations if it's worthwhile and non s...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCoping & AdvocacySchool & Work
Avoidance & SubstitutionMindset shiftPublic Speaking
commentr/StutterMar 28, 2025
3 points

Brother I live in Spain and Spanish people talk to me in English! I try to laugh about it and pretend I’m from different nationalities with different accents. Not the ideal outcome but at least try to...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCoping & AdvocacyIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionMindset shiftStigma & Bullying
postr/StutterMar 28, 2025
8 points

Current personal break though

Current personal break though Hi all, Male, 35. I wanted to share some good news—and maybe some hope for others. I have stuttered my whole life. I’ve had great fluency and awful fluency over the year...

Coping & AdvocacyIdentity & DisabilityTherapy & Professional
Mindset shiftAcceptance & PrideTherapy Experiences+1 more
commentr/StutterMar 27, 2025
2 points

I love this! How perception and cognitive reframing can really change results. It’s how we think about things. I find it so remarkable that Winston Churchill stuttered, but at some point he realized t...

Coping & AdvocacyIdentity & DisabilityEmotional Experience
Mindset shiftIdentity & Self-PerceptionHope & Motivation
commentr/StutterMar 26, 2025
1 points

Not cringey at all - just a very apt thought. You're right, of course. If you can't change it, why worry?...

Coping & AdvocacyIdentity & Disability
Mindset shiftAcceptance & Pride
commentr/StutterMar 26, 2025
1 points

I’ve been trying to step out of my comfort zone a lot more since Monday that has helped quite a lot. In my line of work I have a few clients who I’m quite comfortable with and I don’t stutter or have ...

Coping & AdvocacyIdentity & DisabilitySchool & Work
Mindset shiftAuthenticity vs. MaskingEmployment & Career
commentr/StutterMar 26, 2025
1 points

I don't care at all anymore because I know it's harmless and they're just trying to be nice and they don't understand....

Coping & AdvocacyIdentity & Disability
Mindset shiftAcceptance & Pride
commentr/StutterMar 26, 2025
2 points

You can figure it out yourself, leave no stone unturned. Be skeptical of ALL advice, explore everything and use/refine or discard. It took me until mid-40s but I got there....

Community & SupportCoping & Advocacy
Advice RequestsMindset shift
commentr/StutterMar 26, 2025
1 points

If people find fluency enhancing strategies like this successful, by all means! I just think that more often than not, this can mask our true speech patterns and is not sustainable long term. It’s eas...

Identity & DisabilityCoping & AdvocacyEmotional Experience
Authenticity vs. MaskingMindset shiftShame & Embarrassment
commentr/StutterMar 26, 2025
1 points

Some people want to sound more fluent and that’s totally fine. I’m more in the camp of reducing struggle, because sounding like a fluent person isn’t realistic IMO. But, some combo of desensitization ...

Coping & AdvocacyTherapy & Professional
Mindset shiftPositive Therapy Techniques
commentr/StutterMar 26, 2025
1 points

That is true and mostly aligns to my experience except I still want to fix it, i.e. be as fluent as possible. Sometimes it doesn't matter how desensitised and not-tense I am, I need to get words out i...

Coping & AdvocacyCauses & Variability
Mindset shiftSeverity & Fluctuation
postr/StutterMar 25, 2025
20 points

Kinda cringy but I wrote this to myself yesterday and I hope it can help someone out there to not worry so much about their speech because guess what: it doesn't change a goddamn thing.

Kinda cringy but I wrote this to myself yesterday and I hope it can help someone out there to not worry so much about their speech because guess what: it doesn't change a goddamn thing. ...

Identity & DisabilityCoping & Advocacy
Acceptance & PrideMindset shift
commentr/StutterMar 24, 2025
6 points

Stuttering?  Better because with age, I kinda realized.. “No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.” — Alan Watts...

Coping & AdvocacyCauses & Variability
Mindset shiftStress & Fight/Flight
commentr/StutterMar 24, 2025
1 points

Sticks and stones...and then there's guns.  Don't get ahead of yourself.  There is a funny meme where a snake bites a man and rather than focusing on getting rid of the venom they run after the snake ...

Emotional ExperienceCoping & Advocacy
Frustration & AngerMindset shift
commentr/StutterMar 24, 2025
1 points

And yet it could be the truth.  Why do we not stutter severely when alone?  Even hitting a stutter reading out loud alone, how easy is it to get past it?  There is no pressure, what else is there but ...

Causes & VariabilityEmotional ExperienceCoping & Advocacy
Stress & Fight/FlightHelplessness & AgencyMindset shift
commentr/StutterMar 24, 2025
3 points

It's something I could never do again once i started stuttering the next day again.  It was the first time I felt such a placebo effect to that extent.  It was back in high school if I remember correc...

Emotional ExperienceCoping & Advocacy
Hope & MotivationMindset shift
commentr/StutterMar 24, 2025
1 points

Once I got through the situation the most I accepted it was “sometimes my speaking isn’t perfectly smooth” and I tried not to add any feelings or thinking to any non-fluent speaking situation. I remov...

Identity & DisabilityCoping & Advocacy
Acceptance & PrideMindset shift
commentr/StutterMar 24, 2025
3 points

Nah, I was 230 pounds last year and I was miserable. I haven't been made fun of in years, but if anyone gets short with me I don't care anymore. I'm too old to want to fight anyone, I don't care that ...

Emotional ExperienceCoping & Advocacy
Frustration & AngerMindset shift
commentr/StutterMar 24, 2025
1 points

It’s GREAT that you’ve recognized it’s based on anxiety. Took me 24+ years to accept that fact. The moment I did, my fluency took a 180. Like others said, acknowledge it’s just anxiety and not a perso...

Causes & VariabilityEmotional ExperienceCoping & Advocacy
Stress & Fight/FlightAnxiety & Social JudgmentMindset shift
commentr/StutterMar 24, 2025
11 points

You get comfortable with your stutter. Let it all out. Expose yourself to new situations. Learn not to care, learn that it is apart of you and you can’t change it. It’s gonna hurt at first, but it’ll ...

Identity & DisabilityCoping & Advocacy
Acceptance & PrideVoluntary Stuttering & ExposureMindset shift