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For me if I am speaking while thinking about missed opportunities (experiences, friendships) then I start to stress and then I rather choose for stuttering to alleviate distress to increase the gap re...

Similarly, I started stuttering at the age of 16 due to depression and stress. My mother is alcoholic and since I was little kid I was always stressed and worried if she'll drink today or not. Till th...

how are copy with that? like it's really hard for me. especially when I have even worse than usual days....

I’d encourage you to just go for it because in a presentation no one is going to laugh at you or mock you and if anything they may admire your courage. I have a kinda severe stutter and of course I st...

Should I be seeing a speech therapist or a actual psychologist for my stutter?

Should I be seeing a speech therapist or a actual psychologist for my stutter? I don’t stutter when I’m alone as much but when I speak to people, my stutter is definitely there. I find hard to talk ba...

been feeling really stressed out this year

been feeling really stressed out this year This year will be my final year in college. And it will be the first where I have to make a presentation, for my graduation project. I managed to run away fr...

I stumbled upon your post today. I can totally resonate with you. I'm 28 and have given more 50 interviews till date. I have stuttered to an extent that the interviewers have asked me to type on notep...

Yea, but is the stutter worse because of anxiety? If not, the reason for the increased stutter must be something in the brain or body, but I find that ulikely....

I hear you…such an important observation…the “listener” perceiving the interaction completely wrong with a negative judgement. I guess many of us have endured countless moments like this. An example o...

I worry in particular about being seen as weird, incomprehensible, or awkward. Just intently reading people's face after a prolonged stutter to see their inevitably off-putting reaction....

Half a day of having an internal stutter-dialogue in no way indicates there's a problem and you should seek therapy....

It gave me anxiety and is one of the reasons I stopped working. A nickname helped me a lot, but then gave me the anxiety of "what if they ask what it stands for in full". However, nickname still helps...

This happened to me recently too and it feels horrible. It's seems like vicious loop that I can't break it. Once I noticed that I stammered on my name it started the spiral and kept on going and no...

Yea, great advice. My stomach felt like it was eating itself alive beforehand, but negotiated a good starting salary, which im proud of....

Putting pressure on yourself to talk faster will just make the stuttering worse. Just prep well and do your best and if you fail, go above your teacher to complain. Prove you did your due diligence by...

>I know that preparation does help, but speaking fast in general does increase my stutter. Does anyone have any tips on how to talk quickly without stuttering much? Also, more generally, during a n...

Yea anxiety real bad if I know I have to talk in front of people. I get hot, start sweating, hands start sweating 😓 smh...

Have to speak fast for 10 minutes - any tips?

Have to speak fast for 10 minutes - any tips? I'm a 17 year old who has stuttered since I can remember. I've mastered my stutter to the point where the only indication is occasional disfluency in term...

Yes, it’s normal to only stutter in one language. I’ve seen numerous people on this subreddit that only stutter in one language, but not the other. Personally, I stutter in both the languages I speak,...

That is pretty much the nature of an impactful stutter. "Fight" gives you the feeling to shove the word out - which causes an even worse block. "Flight" causes you to break eye contact - which also ...