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Your sense of humor, like your stuttering, are part of you. Keep them both…...

You're making great offers, and doing exactly what caring teachers do, it's so awesome to see. The compassion is important, and so is encouragement. Encouraging him to power through it is great as wel...

Growing up I had a severe stutter and to protect myself, I stayed isolated and communicated through pieces of paper, whispering and pointing. Later in life, I woke up and decided that I wasn't goin...

THIS. Not taking myself too seriously helped my stutter tremendously. This is great news! I've heard of situations where stutterers are about to encounter disfluency, and in their head they say "I'm a...

I felt this way. I even went to an intensive therapy program where I adjusted the way I spoke to try and control my stuttering. It worked at the time but even when it was working, I just didn't feel l...

same, I'd rather be me than a slightly more fluent false version. that being said, my speech in high school was a nightmare. with age confidence and a crap ton of work on acceptance I'm a decent com...

I prefer to stutter openly rather than changing my natural speaking (rate, inflection, etc). Not going to pretend I am something I not....

I can't say I've liked anyone joking about my stutter except me, I tolerate it from friends because I know they mean no harm but Even when it's good spirited it's still making light of a major hurdle ...

A few quick thoughts here. Some people stutter more when they’re most relaxed, as they ‘allow themselves’ to stutter when it matters less. Maybe since you know he stutters and he knows you don’t judge...

Thanks everyone - appreciate your comments. Everyone has their hurdles to overcome in life and the things that make them different so for me the most important thing is for this to not negatively aff...

Hey I’m sorry about your son. I’m a 19 year old that overcame their stutter. I still stutter sometimes obviously but I speak fluently. Feel free to pm anytime!...

Yea I definitely try to accept myself for my speech impediment but yea it’s definitely difficult I try to remind myself everyone has this as well I’m not the only one, and yea this is “who I am” I try...

At the end of the day, I think it boils down to being able to accept and love yourself for who you are. This is not an easy thing to do- it’s honestly really difficult. My honest advice is finding a t...

I never accepted that I will have speech difficulties until the end of my life. Maybe a trained SLP will notice after 10 minutes of conversation that my speech is a bit different from "normal" or a br...

It depends on how PWS expect others to react to their stuttering. For me if you can let me speak my words that I wanna say out I will feel the most respected and grateful....

Please, read the book more carefully, he explains that use crutches *temporarily*, you won't need them until the rest of your life. "Satan stuttering" is an alliteration and is also very on point, whi...

I guessed the book was going to be the one by Lee Lovett. He’s the one that encourages the use of “crutches,right?” I feel using crutches just seems to hide stuttering, thus making it hard to reach ac...

It’s a vicious cycle….

It’s a vicious cycle…. I k stuttering is not a bad thing … there’s a lot of ppl who stutter in the world….there’s ppl who stutter severely and confident as ever…ppl who have a mild stutter and hate it...

Honestly, the truth is that of course, it is a 'bad' or frustrating thing to stutter. But ask yourself this: does it help you to think of it negatively? I don't think so... and it won't change your st...

I've (37F) come to accept it now. I worked as a manager front end gun store, so talking to people all day....I was having a rough day and kept stuttering and was visibly getting frustrated with mysel...