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I wouldn't even say _managing_ is the goal. What's the difference between managing and controlling? Feels like splitting hairs. I'd argue the goal is to have no negative impact from stuttering. To tr...

Agreed. People understand that you have a stutter. Be a good person and your character will speak for itself. Try to speak slowly, and don’t stress it😊...

In my experience, it seems like girls find stuttering kind of cute. It’s something you struggle with, but still managed to come this far. I think you just need to push through and ask her out. Look at...

Great attitude. I try to lead life the same. I honestly don't even think about it except for the occasions where it gets really bad (which is usually due to stress or anxiety.) And it's something that...

After 3 years of therapy I’m getting there too, and that’s the outlook I’m closest too! Good on you my brother....

Having my stutter for 45 years, I learned that vulnerability is my greatest strength. I choose now to educate, disclose and carry my head high in confidence. I survived a suicide attempt and now ...

Having worked in customer service, I think the hardest part was feeling like I was inconveniencing people who had to listen to me stutter. At some point I decided that what I have to say is more impor...

Self therapy for the stutterer helped me so much with confronting my stutter, and not hiding it, or running away from it w word substitutions, deletions, etc., which only work so long, then the substi...

I can relate to you so much. It was a very very long way for me and there were many ups and downs, but now I can accept my stutter (nearly always) without fear and shame. I just want to say this one t...

Or maybe there would come a time where you will speak confidently with a stutter...

Having confidence is key to pushing through the stutter. Teaching kids "techniques" and "tools" to avoid stuttering will only make matters worse because they still will have that lingering fear that t...

Speech therapy never worked for me. What is helping me now is taking deep breaths before speaking, working out, and meditating....

Continually reinforce to your kids that the goal is not fluency, but to stutter easily. To work on owning it, to manipulate ones own stutter to break the grip and ease in and out of the stutter. You t...

I love the analogy. For me it’s not about being unique (i’m obviously that anyway) it’s about embracing the fact that I stutter and that’s okay and not internalising societies view and reaction to my...

Fantastic! Sounds like a great speech therapist. It sounds silly but given a choice I’d rather society become more comfortable with a stutter than eradicate all the stutters. Obviously never gonna hap...

100% fluency is an unattainable goal, because all people have some disfluencies time to time, even non-stutterers. I look at stuttering as I'd look at a pebble in my shoes. It's there, it's not a...

I'm not sure how much i stutter compared to you all. I try to keep orders as simple as possible (like one word). If somehow the person didn't understand. I kind of have a "fuck it" attitude and just s...

I think about #2 all the time - why is fluent speech the ultimate goal? My speech therapists used to tell me that the goal is to have my needs met and that's it. They never made it about being fluent ...

Yea and of course I don't mean to say turning a stutter off is the only way to do it. Perfection or no stuttering is basically unattainable right? Having that as the goal is a bit tough. Now...I hav...

It's rough, I'll say that just as a preamble. It's rough. I feel pretty blessed that if I really focus and stay calm I can almost completely not stutter for a decent period of time, maybe an hour tops...