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I recently graduated in IT Network & Security and seems to have hard time getting a job and I thought it could be because of my stuttering. I try not to let it keep me down from achieving what I ...

Are there other things going on in your life right now? Stress, anxiety, depression? If I am having a difficult time with things, my fluency can reflect that. Just being tired can negatively impact m...

>I stutter more when I think people aren’t listening to me Which just confirms that stuttering is psychological for major part....

Define mental illness... (rhetorical question) This is a slippery slope. IMO, stuttering is not mental illness. But I've observed a lot of mental illness in stutterers. Suicidal thoughts, depressio...

for me stuttering is a symptom of anxiousness, so i guess be confident, find some way of doing that?...

I think it's not a mental illness, but it defintely contributes to having overall anxiety / social anxiety, depression and low (really low) self-steam and overall insecurities...

Stressful scenarios and emotions + heightened anxiety cause a trigger. Stuttering is usually caused by a neurological pathway so your brain is reflecting a "wrong" order to your motor neurones that d...

I actually think that my stuttering come from my ADHD that was lately diagnosed so it has branched up to anxiety which caused my self-esteem dropped heavily....

Pointing out anything stutter related just adds tension and makes it worse. You then over correct and try harder which just causes more stuttering🙃...

For people who are mostly covert stutterers, this is rarely an accurate assessment. Most of what we do is attempts to hide/circumvent the stutter (avoiding a situation/comment, changing your comment,...

Honestly, it's not about how other stutterers accept these statements from their peers. You feel a certain way about this. How you feel about your stutter is specific to you. I think a lot of us ha...

I think it depends on how bad you have it. Mine is pretty severe and I’ve gotten a lot of weird reactions to it. People have treated me like I’m stupid, they have talked to me in a “baby” voice, or ha...

Well in reality yes and no. Here’s the thing, stuttering is a noticeable disease that presents itself socially also it is extremely rare to have (making it less normal per se) so some people will deem...

Hi! Personally when i tell myself “ now try not to stutter” i stutter the most, I had two professors who stuttered and they were one of the cool ones. I m sick of it too, and my stutter got wors...

recently started stuttering (f20)

recently started stuttering (f20) i can’t remember exactly when i started stuttering, but it was definitely within the second half of this year. i keep thinking that i must be doing it for attention o...

Yeah remaining confident is rlly hard! Sometimes but one bad block changes my whole mood. It is only lately i started to say to myself that yes its hard but thats me, i m okay, i m normal. I think u...

Dude me too lmao. Having to make a phone call is legit scary. It’s so weird tbh. Idk why it’s such a big deal in my head....

Wow you sound exactly like me<39 yr old male>,having to make a phone call or talking to ppl puts knots in my tummy,sweats and shallow breathing.I hope it gets better....

I’m the same exact age as you and I totally understand. I’ve made really huge strides from when I was a kid/early twenties, when I could hardly do anything outside of my comfort zone and when I did I ...

Have you considered speech therapy? ​ The key is to learn how to use techniques to help speak smoother while also getting comfortable. Stuttering is not caused by anxiety but anxiety ma...