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Yep, Waterloo - I made sure not to be near Ezra this past Sunday, that's for sure. Lol, the impromptu portion was too much for me in the first meeting so clammed up and I didn't participate (and they...

Really? Small world. Haha funny story, that was actually the first club I signed up for while in university. But during the first meeting, they wanted us to go up in front of everyone and tell an im...

Thanks - it will get better for you too. It looks like you're in the KW area also, so what improved things for me may help you too. ToastMasters has some really good (supportive, inclusive) area clu...

It's great that you are striving, but I think what happened here is you reached a bit too far without a solid foundation. Fear of public speaking is already a serious thing on its own,and you add stu...

Something good did come out of it. You hit rock bottom. Now what will you do? My advice, as someone with 10 years stuttering experience, is to join a public speaking club. It gets easier every time yo...

Just do it. I had one back in November and out of the 7 groupmates, only 3 of us spoke. I volunteered to speak because it's these situations that help you to adjust to high pressure situations (if y...

Practice your presentation so that you are comfortable enough with the content so that you can focus on the speech. You sound like your stutter is mild, so you shouldn't have a hard time being confide...

Hi! I'm a 20 yo student who has been stuttering since I was 8 yo. My stutter was terrible through secondary school (High school for any American friends here), but I had a group of friends that liked ...

Hi! I'm a 20 yo student who has been stuttering since I was 8 yo. My stutter was terrible through secondary school (High school for any American friends here), but I had a group of friends that liked ...

Again similar to myself. I can sit there with friends for hours and not say a word but can also be the loudest in the room depending on how I feel and the situation. I find public speaking easy too b...

I’d think so too. Personally I range from being functionally mute to super fluent. Very much depends on my anxiety. Oddly enough I always crush public speaking. ...

It's a proper alternative speech therapy course, with a lot of after support. You learn physical techniques as well as a big focus on psychological and public speaking. It's not a cure, it's probably...

It's holistic. You learn how to physically control your stutter through a natural speaking technique which involves using costal breathing and you learn tools to manage blocks and other disfluency whe...

> Going "out there" and just talking boosts self confidence and helps to deal with the fact that we stutter, ironically reducing the problem the more we are at ease with it. I strongly agree with ...

Good to hear it's working (out) for you (no pun intended ;)). To be serious, it's also something that I \[M36, stuttering since childhood\] realized over the years and what is recognizable in many po...

Any nurses, doctors, pre-health professionals on here that failed their clinical checkouts due to their stuttering?

Any nurses, doctors, pre-health professionals on here that failed their clinical checkouts due to their stuttering? For my health programs lab checkouts, we pick a random faced-down scenario and are a...

How To Help Significant Other who Stutters Before A Public Speaking Event

How To Help Significant Other who Stutters Before A Public Speaking Event Hi everyone! My significant other [29 M] has to read off names for a ceremony tonight for an honors society in front of about ...

I’m in the same boat as you friend! I’m going to be giving a speech in a competition for a full ride to my dream school. If you can nail all other aspects of presentation such as how you dress, eye co...

Good Luck to you. I took public speaking in college last semester and as a stutterer myself it was a pretty nerve racking experience. I actually did very well throughout the whole class though and har...

Biggest interview of my life this weekend

Biggest interview of my life this weekend Hi everyone. I have a really important interview this weekend for a scholarship to my dream school, and my stuttering has been getting me down. I wrote about ...