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I think about it when I am outside. Sometimes I'd love to pitch into a conversation, think about my stutter, go for it and mess up, or i decide to just stay silent because of it...

Thank you for sharing that link! :) The results on the poll are quite varied, different people’s stutter is different. Some may feel social anxiety has a significant effect on their stutter, while som...

You have a stutter then, it is made worse by social anxiety. There are lots of people with social anxiety who don't stutter. Here is something you may find interesting: https://www.reddit.com/r/soci...

You are capable of doing anything you put your mind to and never let your stutter make you think otherwise. do you honestly not enjoy your course or do you think the anxiety is making you dislike it? ...

Sup dude. I’m a year above you. I just experienced the same thing, but kind of flipped. My first year of college was during covid, so all my classes were on zoom and my stutter got worse because I wa...

I'm scared to go back to college

I'm scared to go back to college (18m) I basically flunked my first year of community college bc of anxiety. I wouldn't show up to class bc I was scared of being called on in class , and with that I l...

I feel like for a lot of people who don't stutter, talking about stuff like how you feel, emotions in general or anxiety are hard enough. Now when you combine that with a stutter that indiscriminately...

I actually had to quit my job today because of the anxiety that my stutter caused. Some of my coworkers would mock me and management wouldn’t do anything about it. I would get so anxious and worried w...

I wish that were me. For me, in my early 30s, it’s still an instant moment of sweat, fear, and anxiety when I have to introduce myself. I’ve done it a 1000+ times and it hasn’t gotten better. It’s pro...

Thanks doc. I have been stuttering since age 5. 25 years. The fear of stuttering/anxiety is a symptom of many excruciatingly painful stuttering events. So while I may have social anxiety, it stems fro...

It gets harder

It gets harder I’m a male working as engineer, I have stuttered my whole life. At some point in my life when I lived in the US I came to accept my stuttering and many people were cool, I got to meet p...

If you read aloud for two hours a day without stuttering, you suffer from anxiety in front of people more than stuttering. CBT will knock that out easily....

For me it's basically related to my self confidence. Whenever I get bad grades or fail a paper or i feel bad then my stutter instantly gets worse . So now I tend not to get sad just to stop myself fro...

Severe, sometimes almost to the point of calling it a disability. My stuttering has ruined many things for me. Sure, I have a learning disability, avoidant personality disorder, PTSD and OCD, all of w...

it has gotten severe why!!!

it has gotten severe why!!! We're at a family reunion and Im devastated beyond words rn. i can no longer speak without stuttering. I stutter in every fucking sentence. I became that quiet and very a...

I’m an avid avoider of drive thrus. I haven’t been through one in over 10 years. Fuck that shit! Why put yourself through high stress anxiety, fear, sweat, humiliation, and shame, when you don’t hav...

For me that doesn’t help. I don’t really know when I will stutter or not. My fear of stuttering will just grow. Exposure therapy works best for me. Making phone calls or ask for something in a store, ...

For me, it has helped my stutter by avoiding speaking in high stress environments or times when I know I’ll stutter. When I know I can be fluent, I speak then. I feel like stuttering reinforces stutte...

You don't mind if i ask some questions, the very important thing is not your stuttering by itself, but the way you think about it, for example, tell me, do you think about it often? Do you think about...

I have social anxiety in that it's very hard for me to start (sober) conversations with strangers, but easy once I actually start talking to them I think it's probably related to the fact that I'm tr...