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Indeed. I have contacts at various places which have a large membership. When I call them, they don't even have to ask my name and instantly know it's me. I am fully open about my stutter and talk li...

Depends on how you deal with your stutter. If you stutter openly and don't let it hold you back, it will make you memorable in a positive way. People will think you're brave and look up to you....

Speech therapy could help. I'm a mild/situational stutterer too. Drinks not a problem for me, but maybe losing some control over your faculties through alcohol could be making your stuttering worse. P...

im currently in 7th grade and it has definetly got me thinking about my future and what im gonna do. luckily there are teachers who know about it and are nice also friends ive had since like 3rd grade...

Yeah, god forbid that you actually take the opportunity to empathize. The last notion is clearly connected to the main point of the article: idea of the everyday life and how we take things for grante...

1. You have/had a girlfriend, that's an achievement in itself 2. Why are you blaming your father? It's not his fault what-so-ever and I'm pretty sure at one point in his life he thought the same abou...

I've already missed out on my youth. I'm 27 and have missed out on most things the typical person would experience. The best thing I have done is to not compare my life with others because that result...

I've been a trumpet player since I was in grade school (im 21 now) and have never felt a stuttering sensation while playing. Music was always an alternative way to share my voice rather than speaking....

You are right, but she just wants him to open up about it which he def should do. And from there it is obviously his choice to do what he want and doesnt want. I would argue that not talking about it ...

The comparison you are making between your "bad social anxiety" and stuttering is incorrect. In many cases, like mine, it's genetic. My father had it, as did other men along his family tree. It ski...

That's like asking someone who has dyslexia to reduce the errors they make when reading and writing... sure it's possible to improve but there's a chance that he'll never be fluent. I'm not sure if y...

To everyone in this sub, The negativity in this sub stems from the young demographic in this sub. I know I'm of the minority being in my thirties and when I first found this sub, I wrote a genuine o...

Yeah exactly! It's really weird. Playing music is a way of expressing yourself and I guess the stutter manifests itself in all ways of expression? I asked my speech therapist about this once and he d...

Does anyone stutter when they do other physical motions? Perhaps it's not that music is like speech, but rather speech is like music. Perhaps stuttering is partially the inability to "hear the note"...

I'm saying nothing about the cause of it. What's more important is resonating to everybody here that adopting this attitude will make things worse for you. ...

Probably stems from the mental health issues we stutters face as a result of our condition....

Aren't you the guy that made a bunch of threads filled with nothing but negativity? I think you're doing all that shit to yourself and you're just looking to blame somebody else. Also if it works fo...

The "cure rejecting/Novelty trick hating" attitude of this subreddit has hurt me alot mentally and it should change.

The "cure rejecting/Novelty trick hating" attitude of this subreddit has hurt me alot mentally and it should change. I was always hopeful of at least knowing I can one day reduce it to a point where i...

No one is born without many flaws. Those who seemingly have less flaws simply have flaws that are less apparent. We're all dealt different hands that balance out. Remember that...

You should definitely read this essay called "Message to a Stutterer" by Joseph Sheehan. It talks about stuttering openly.. which is basically trying to accept yourself as someone who stutters. The mo...