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Hi! I know the struggle, but I have one simple advice to give to you. It is who you are, and if you're on a date with this person while stuttering, it wouldn't matter/bother this person if he/she is h...

That's what a lot of my friends and family tell me. Even strangers after I try to explain that I have a stutter. They usually say, "And? I got what you meant. You're fine.", and almost immediately, I ...

I usually do too, but once I do I always feel like I should have used that opportunity to advertise. Idk it just feels wrong to someone who's working on accepting their stutter more. But if it works f...

Allow me a bit of bluntness: >I looked like a complete idiot. - So? Who cares? I just stuttered my ass off in front of a neighbor, trying to say something simple. So what? The communication ...

I wish I knew more stutterers in real life, just want to be able to give hugs and say I hear you, I understand, you’re accepted just as you are. It’s harder than most people can understand, and the ...

Same boat here. Focus on living and not your stutter. Take it from an old man, (49 yrs old), live your life and if you block, oh well, just breathe and keep moving forward. You are more than your...

Thank you for this post. I'm 49, a little older than the two of you and I appreciate your vulnerability. I experienced everything that you have experienced and I agree with the previous comment th...

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...

Evening stuttering prevention thoughts over tea.

Evening stuttering prevention thoughts over tea. In psychology there is a theory used for people with fear of things such as heights, spiders ect.. I think its called the brute force theory where you ...

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...

People suck. Just be you. My dad always told me “Never apologize to people for your stutter. There’s nothing wrong with you”. It was the best thing he ever told me....

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...

I feel like after a lot of drinks, my fluency may or may not improve any, but I just don’t care as much lol but that’s a very valid point...

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...

There's definitely a lot of things involved in getting to grips with having a stutter. I'm not sure it's feasible to expect a single vocation to sort out all of it. In that sense, we'd be prudent in...

I don't even consider or use the techniques my speech therapist taught me long ago. Yet I've improved a lot, mostly due to my own personal improvement. Not saying therapists are useless... but you're ...

Hey I'm glad you wrote this, I'm a speech pathologist without a stutter and reading your perspective is really helpful for me. I will say in my graduate school experience the importance of stuttering ...

yeah, it’s easier said than done. there isn’t a just a switch where suddenly you don’t care what people think. it’s a gradual thing. best thing is to stick it out through the rough times and know that...

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...

There is a switch towards accepting and commitment therapy in stuttering therapy. It is very similar to not giving an F......