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I pretended my stutter wasn’t bad, so I can be more socially active. In my mind I told myself I don’t stutter....

Yeah I tried that and had a bad experience and since then have always tried to actively hide my stutter, either by not speaking or just using few words. I know that one bad exp shouldn’t dictate how e...

I've always felt this, but I feel like it's generally quite clear to anyone who stutters when it's put on, at least it is for me. I dealt with it a lot as a kid so I have developed stuttering spidey s...

See thing happened to me when I first started public speaking. I thought I was "over it." Really shook my confidence. Later learned it takes one to know one. Ended up meeting the guy a decade later ...

I think many people are closet stutters, like I have spent my life, trying hard to hide it all cost. Very stressful life to say the least....

I can relate, my biggest envy of people in my lifetime has always been how effortless they can talk ....

That’s just because we’re so critical of perfect speech that it’s easy to recognize. I’m sure no one else even caught it....

I stutter at work all the time. Sorry you had that reaction! I always have some go-to jokes I use at work if I'm having a hard day with my stutter. My coworkers have said that my openness to discuss i...

Feeling desperate right now

Feeling desperate right now Hello fellow stutterers, I'm M19 and I'm actually writing this at a moment of desperation right now because my stutter is getting a hold of me again and I just wanted to ge...

I've noticed that the more I try to stop myself from stuttering, the more I end up blocking on almost every word, with a lot of tension in my neck and face. My speech becomes very choppy and strained....

Introducing myself is the hardest thing for me to do. If I know for certain that someone is coming over to introduce themselves, the thing that typically helps me is if I take control of the introduct...

I did a presentation at a conference that I actually thought went pretty well. I walked away thinking that my speaking was pretty smooth. I didn't recall any blocks. An attendee approached me after ...

I've tried the method the mentioned when you forget about your stutter, but I can only forget about for so long before it reappears....

Go to the restaurant and order something I actually WANT, and not something random I am able to say without stuttering...

I often consciously distract myself - or the person I'm talking to - with lots of gestures when speaking, for example. I feel more comfortable talking when I'm moving, like walking, rather than sittin...

I’m sorry you went through this. I stutter. I’ve stuttered my whole life. Like you I didn’t know where it came from. I only realized I stuttered when I was told I stuttered. Then that’s ALL I heard. ...

It is extremely difficult blocking on your own name. It happens to me constantly when I am in a professional setting. I try to divert and buy myself time with BS questions like “Have we ever met befor...

mm nothing i guess haha i live like I dont have a stutter...

I'm new here

I'm new here Hey, first of all, I think it's very nice that there are so many of us, we must never forget that there are so many people who stutter. My school days were a total nightmare for me, I s...

I feel that, I avoid going to restaurants that don't have these self-ordering displays or I persuade my companion to order for me beforehand...