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I used to be the same way and talking to people online via text made it so much easier for me to talk to people offline via words because now I know how conversation works. I have an amazing boyfriend...

Aha yes you're right! :P From an anxiety viewpoint it makes sense though. People naturally retreat from anxiety. So that's why stutterers shy away from talking. You have to cognitively rationalize it ...

Hi there! In my opinion the best way to start communicating with people (the way you'd like) is just practice. With someone. I tried to find here someone to talk to by phonecalls or using videochats b...

I think the best help, but also the most time consuming and hardest help is to accept it. to accept yourself WITH the stutter. seeing the enemy as a friend. many people have problems with accepting th...

It took me months to practice every single day. I would have friends call me and I would call random people. To get over the fear, I just did it. (This coming from an individual who took 1.5 hours...

Keep trying to search for a new course and method. Never surrender. Use your anger for to do something in this directions. You are not alone in this shit, we are at least the 1% of the population...

Looking at places that don't require customer service (e.g. warehouse, factory etc.) might be good BUT getting somewhere where you do have to talk could help you a lot. When I got my first job at a sm...

Motivation is the key. I think it depends of the phase of your life... I was very angry with my stutter when I did the course. I was 16, in the core of my adolescence and the stutter was a limit in ma...

I feel you. It’s the worst. So so hard to maintain a shred of self worth when these things happen. There’s no real solution is there, just ways around it. It sucks and it’s ok to be angry and frustrat...

Heads up boys. Acknowledge your stutter, don’t confront it. When questioned about it, make it seem irrelevant, just another inconvenience. Sound unimpressed, be the alpha in the room. My severe stutte...

Hey man, i just recently got my first job at a retail food store. I couldn't even tell you how many applications i handed in, maybe over 20, I'm being dead serious. Every time they would call me I cou...

My techniques : eyes and appreciation of words

My techniques : eyes and appreciation of words Hey. I'm 26 and I experience stutter by phase, but it's getting really manageable. To be brief, I wanted to share with you 3 techniques that really help...

You are the best! Keep going like this. And if somedays don't go as planned, try to be positive. Cheers...

I respectfully disagree. We all have our own specific journeys with our stutter. While I support everyone's own personal view in this forum, this is my point of view. After 20 years of speech thera...

If I had a quarter every time that happened to me, I would be Bill Gates. I stopped fighting it and just accepted it. My attitude now is "Who cares? I don't care anymore that I have a stutter." On...

There is still hope

There is still hope I red more topic about the difficulty of find a therapy. I had the luck to find a great course that helps me a lot (thanks to my mum that convince me to go). I think that the stren...

Im here with a different experience with a speech therapist. I started going to the speech therapist at the age of 14 and it was a stressful time of my life. I was preparing for the high school entran...

work somewhere that matters to you, or relates to something you have passion for. That alone can be a huge motivation boost and for me it even helps ease my anxiety and stuttering. For example, I’m a ...

Thank you for sharing, it’s awesome that you are acknowledging and embracing what you have accomplished. Being a stutter is hard, but we can’t let that stop us from achieving our goals. You’re not onl...

You should go for it then, you can do it. It’ll be hard at first, but you’ll grow so much from the experience. It will make you that much stronger and able to handle adversity the next time....