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I’ve stutter my entire life. As a child I was so afraid to speak, folks thought I was a mute. Stuttering always felt like it had a hold on me. One day I decided I won’t let this hold me back in life...

Thank you. I've been on this path for 13 years now. Like any path, it has its ups and downs and a lot of progress is made in baby steps. I have over 2 decades before that of emotional scarring and n...

That's a great attitude to have towards your stutter. Reading about anyone who has overcome stuttering or at least learned how to live with it, your mental choices and how who choose to react to it ar...

A stuttering moment

A stuttering moment For Father's day weekend, I went camping with my family. We were outside and I was starting a fire when the neighbor comes up to me to engage in conversation. After a few exchang...

I’ve made peace with my disorder, and I appreciate the kind words. For me, it’s more of “dang it, why did I linger on that block for so long?” I can be fairly impatient at times, and even though I kn...

That a stutterer isn't nervous or shy, and actually can be very confident, even if he's stuttering....

I've found direct correlation between my speech and the work I put in, too. E.g. if I read aloud a lot, use proactive strategies to avoid struggling with words and use mind training (visualizations, a...

Thanks for your kind words. One positive thing that came from my stutter is that I’m a lot more sympathetic to peoples struggles....

Stephen Covey once said, “The way we see the problem is the problem.” Maybe your stutter isn’t a problem at all. Maybe it has made you who you are for a reason! A stutter produces a great deal of humi...

You can still achieve so much, though. I have a bad stutter, but I make good money writing business and government proposals. Yea, sometimes I stutter badly during meetings, but my co-workers still va...

Personally, I'd choose someone who were able to solve his or her own problem. Like I'd never go to an overweight personal trainer, but of course, different people have different goals regarding stutte...

Sure, but a lot of people posting are young. It takes a process to mature and gain perspective. Like a lot of disabilities or set backs, one of the hardest parts is to avoid becoming a cynic....

This is cliche obviously, but it's only going to get in the way if you let it. Stutterers in all varying degrees have had success in all careers. I personally know people with prominent stutters as...

Thank you this is amazing to hear! I always thought that maybe my stutter would prevent me from becoming a SLP but I guess I was wrong :))))...

Got over my comfort zone and did a podcast with Pedro Pena of ‘My stuttering life’.

Got over my comfort zone and did a podcast with Pedro Pena of ‘My stuttering life’. Hello guys, last month I did my first podcast and without a doubt it was one of the biggest achievement and getting ...

People who stutter make outstanding speech-language pathologists. They get it!...

Any "don't"s for writing a stuttering character ?

Any "don't"s for writing a stuttering character ? Hi, I'm currently working on a character with a stutter, but I'm wondering if there are maybe cliches or misinformation that annoys or offends people...

There’s a lot of us, actually. There’s a whole Facebook group “SLPs who stutter” and many of the leaders in the field research-wise, also are SLPs who stutter....

As someone who just got accepted to medical school this year and will be starting this fall, this gives me so much hope. Thank you so much and congratulations!!! I remember how stressful working throu...

Thank you and that’s great!! I was always worried that I wouldn’t be able to become a speech therapist due to my stutter interfering with it but this gave me hope so thank you...