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My best advice is let go of wanting control. Work on being confident in your stutter instead of always working around it. The more i try to work on my stutter with tools ive learned, the more i tend ...

Don’t be so hard on yourself. If you stutter you stutter. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that at all. It sounds like you’re your own biggest critic regarding this. Whatever happens is going to...

It adds character. Just don’t hold back. It’s only a big deal if you make it a big deal. If your coworkers don’t think it bother you then to won’t bother them. Good luck...

They didn't make a mistake hiring you. If they hired you fully knowing, you're clearly perfectly qualified for the role regardless of your speech. Think about how qualified you are for the role vs a...

There truly are people that recover to the point that they don’t have a single block for decades, not avoid words, or even use technique. John Harrison is one....

Thanks for the inspiration! I define fluency as no longer holding back what we think, feel and say. So in other words, fluency as a mindset, not necessarily as physical blocks. But they are often rela...

On my 40th birthday, I named mine "Oscar- the grouch". He would pop up 24/7 with the most hateful, negative and egregious remarks. He controlled my life for 35 years until I gave him a name and the...

Do what makes you happy. I was told growing up that I was worthless and I envisioned a future of isolation and depression. When you are doing a job that you were told you couldn't do and are excell...

Therapy works temporarily for 6 months , stuttering is like a cancer .It comes back vigorously. No treatment whatsoever. You need to relax ,get away from toxic environment, need the constant encourage...

And there's nothing wrong with that! I've learned to accept my stutter. I vibe with it 😌...

Surround yourself with people who accept you regardless of your stutter to help build confidence. I find that it helps to let your listener know so they know you just need alittle bit more time. You...

That's great if it does but that's not really what professional speech therapists would 100% strive for in their clients. They would clarify from the start that these speech techniques may not work bu...

My 2 cents: I've had 20 years of speech therapy and I went from 0% fluency to 80% (through very hard work and practice). What I learned (and this truly changed my life) is that I constantly worrie...

Speech therapists can't cure or fix stuttering, sorry for the disappointment. I was like this too when I first got speech therapy but speech therapists can give you an alternative solution and that's ...

Ask yourself if you would hate or judge other people for what you hate or judge yourself for. If not, then don’t allow yourself to operate from a double standard anymore. Tell your brain as a mantra...

Since this has became a feared word and has a lot of fear connected to the word, learning to lessen the fear is key. A quick tip I can give you is to stutter on purpose when you say that word. Becau...

Hey, it went really well. They were a great interview and while they did occasionally stutter it certainly didn't affect their demeanor or mask their knowledge or etc. We took the general advice and d...

Gotta be less insecure about the speech. Life goes on, laugh at the jokes. Unless they are directed and verbally towards you....

I am a woman who stutters. As others have noted, there’s lots of us, but we’re a minority within a minority. Women who stutter who own it and take up their space are Badass. Here’s a whole treasure t...

If that person is a stutterer then big +1 for posting it on Facebook and taking the reactions like a pro...