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For me I think it started when my dad started to physically abuse me when I was five. For some reason no one believed he abused me, and my mom and sister always took his side, which caused all stress ...

Thanks for your comment. Somehow I tend to feel disappointed that I could feel myself tense up and block up severely again when I need to answer a friendly question. I'm retired now and live on my ow...

I'm reading it, it applies to me. I don't stutter at home when I'm on my own. I stutter even when visiting my family but not while alone. Now I'm in a bad period, about a year. I'm retired. I didn't ...

I'm inclined to think that's in my case it's anxiety and discouraged feeling that I will stutter on the word I want to say. Then it feels like panic so substitute words would not help. When I'm at hom...

Blocks make me judge myself more harshly—repetitions make me judge others more harshly....

i just want to stop stuttering

i just want to stop stuttering everytime i go out or try to talk to someone new i end up stuttering and look like an idiot and i just end up doing everything to avoid talking to people im 16 right now...

That price for some of us is truly priceless. Double edge sword. Not all can show who they are and what they are. Some hide in complete fear due to social restrictions. However the absolute is.... ...

This is accurate. I have mild OCD where once I stutter on something I didn’t before, ill start obsessing with it and then I’ll start doing the compulsion of saying that word out loud (or sometimes in...

Hey man! Def relatable, been having the same frustrations one of these days. I think there is a simple explanation for it tho. A MMA fighter can visualise a fight, they can visualise the person they a...

Try not to feel bad what you did took a lot of courage! I used to be terrified to order especially at sit down restaurants when they would slowly go around the table and I knew with each persons order...

The thing with stuttering is, most of the suffering is imagined in the stutterers mind than world could inflict on you. You remember every little humiliation, mockery, missed opportunities. People mig...

I'm 35 years old (female) and have never had a relationship mostly because of my severe stutter. I was bullied hard because of my stutter and I simply cannot trust people to not laugh at me 🤷‍♀️ I ha...

For simplicity and clarity, I’ll adopt two terms: First of all “normal stuttering”– to refer to the occasional moments that everyone experiences where our planned words don’t or won’t come out at the ...

When I was applying for mitigating circumstances at my university the university officer who was doing my assessment asked 'do you have autism' and I was like 'no I am here for my stammer' He just sai...

**"how to find confidence and push yourself"** You could try this out to gain confidence: * Firstly, before you start speaking, make sure that you set this new mindset:you are not anticipating a stu...

Any good ways to tackle a stammer/stutter on your own without a speech therapist?

Any good ways to tackle a stammer/stutter on your own without a speech therapist? A little context and history to my speech is that I have a pretty mild stammer and word block on certain sounds, it wa...

Pushed myself to order something out of my comfort zone in the drive through and failed miserably

Pushed myself to order something out of my comfort zone in the drive through and failed miserably i had a fine day at work talking to people without a single issue and my mom asked me to go to kfc to ...

Situations where word substitution isn’t possible have always been nightmarish. Seems there’s often a situation in any sort of class / training where the instructor asks people to read text on a proj...

how to find confidence and push yourself

how to find confidence and push yourself Hello all i hope you’re all doing great. I’ve come to a point in my life where i’m sick and tired of holding myself back from doing absolutely everything that...

Everything you describe is very classic stuff for people with impactful dysfluency! My first tip is to let them know you speak with a stutter. Maybe even wear a name badge saying “I stutter”. Make ...