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Strange Occurrence

Strange Occurrence I wanted to share a strange occurrence that happened with my fluency one afternoon a few months ago. It began when I felt motions in my mouth. The motions felt like a pressure or ...

When I was in community college I had a professor tell me that “ we all stutter it’s not a big deal” and was told that if I don’t do it I’d get a 0 and that time my college didn’t have disability serv...

Does stuttering affect how capable people think you are in a professional/educational setting?

Does stuttering affect how capable people think you are in a professional/educational setting? I feel like it happens to me constantly and I'm so fucking sick of it. I've definitely gotten this impres...

Help me not bomb this

Help me not bomb this Hey friends, I give a speech in from of 400 people next week. I only occasionally stutter, but when I do, I sometimes can't pronounce another word. What would be my best bet, XA...

Stammering tends to manifest in the context of formative years and can colour the narrative of a lifetime. From my own experience this has been a blend of negative critical judgement, perceived or exp...

How should I handle this?

How should I handle this? I'm in med school and at times we're assessed through presentations ...where we have to individually present to the whole class. A month prior to this, I explained to the ...

How do handle a situation like that without showing too much emotion giving them more fuel to pick on you?...

It’s ok to be nervous and anxious happens to me all the time before going into a professional speaking situation I just slow my breathing and tell myself the less I freak out the better I’ll speak and...

Got a job interview today

Got a job interview today I had a job interview in May. I stuttered so much. The night before, I didn’t sleep, I was shivering and deathly anxious. Almost fainted before I went to the interview. The i...

I would say that online dating is the best way for us men who stutter since approaching women directly means almost always a high degree of tension and anxiety which makes (severe) stuttering more lik...

For sure, I'm a bit of a late bloomer but I remember suddenly getting comfortable befriending and speaking with women when I was 17 or so. It seemed like such a huge obstacle before. I try not to let ...

I met my SO on Hinge. We hit it off over text, and when we started making plans to meet, I dropped a “by the way, I have a stutter. Sometimes it’s difficult for me to speak when I’m first getting to k...

This is a tough one. A personal story here...I was married before,ironically to a mild stutterer, so she was understanding of my limitations. But before her and after her have been a bit of a struggle...

I get this, and I try to be, but I feel like I'm too anxious and clumsy to be confident. Whenever I try it backfires. I'm pretty good at being neutral and non-aggressive though, like Switzerland....

Yeah, I'm not shy, and I could be funny and interesting but instead I have a choice of either looking stupid or keeping my mouth closed. Stuttering just sucks....

Thinking about relationships fills me with despair. There's a girl I really like, and she's pretty nice to me, but I just freaking can't speak. Everyone says "find a girl who doesn't care about your s...

Confidence is the number one key into having a happy, healthy relationship. It makes you attractive. :) Even in relationships or not, people often admire my confidence as a stutterer. It's what that...

The way most young men do: they don't Kidding aside, just try talking to any female friends first ig, helps build confidence for when you talk with girls in a romantic setting....

Hahaha thanks, you know, I definitely have met a few women like this, but I always seem to pass up any chance of being happy or in a relationship. I'm not sure why. Maybe I just miss the signs, maybe ...

Hey thank you so much for replying. I don’t know what it is it a stutter ? or is it social anxiety? I talk fluently every other time. It’s only when I am nervous or thinking about it that it happens ...