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Stuttering onset in adulthood

Stuttering onset in adulthood I’ve never had a stutter in childhood or adolescence. I’m almost 40 and I’ve started to stutter. I talk fast and I tend to get stuck on words and repeat them over again a...

Blocks are definitely worse. When blocking I’ve had people at best assume I’m just done talking and at worst ask genuinely if I’m having a stroke. I get a lot more weird looks when my face moves and i...

From a reasoning standpoint it makes sense, because 'repeating what you just said' is basically redundant and not necessary, whereas, when you block it's in our compulsive nature to get stuck. Of cour...

I have repetitions more often, and it gets really really annoying, especially when people start accusing you of faking the stutter (true story, my mom.)...

How to stay mindful while speaking?

How to stay mindful while speaking? I've stuttered my whole life and never really thought anything of it. I was very sheltered and it never really made my life difficult, so I never really cared. I'm ...

I guess i don’t feel a need to ever get cured - I just like having very infrequent blocks. And, when I do have them, I feel good knowing how to move through it (make eye contact, look up/across when ...

Saying something and just getting a "Hm?" in return is such pain. I know I mumble a lot; I can't help it, it's almost like the development of my speech was impeaded by something. Tough luck, guess yo...

At times i hate my stutter but at the same time i’m blessed to have people who are patient when it comes to me stuttering; especially at work. Whether that be my coworkers or customer (i work at a pha...

Repeating anything is cancer

Repeating anything is cancer So weird how this crap works man, mild stutter here and I block and certain word and syllables especially saying thank you and saying my name… but the number one trigger f...

Yes! I 22(f) have been with my boyfriend 21 (m) for a year now! (knew him for 3 years prior to dating) In the beginning I didn’t stutter a whole lot however we were long distance in the beginning (sti...

Regarding that 80% rate compared to a different outcome as you get older : I teach young children and know that they all have times when, for all different reasons, they speak w dysfluency. Most do ...

It's the opposite for me. I have a mild speech impediment but coffee and gum help a lot. It might be a physiological thing though IDK...

The interesting thing is that it was only recently that I actually realized that before ninth grade, I didn't stutter at all. It was only after I moved to USA to pursue my masters and I was so nervous...

Depends. What stutter do you have? Repetition? Blockage? I used different methods to get rid of those....

Mostly “wuh” “Kuh” and the word “can” But only if that sound is the first syllable of what I’m saying So I’ve subconsciously started saying “and” before almost everything I say Like “and can I...

My mother tongue is Arabic and I speak English. I stutter in both but it's way worse in English. Like 10× worse....

For me.. more difficult sounds-passage's are from close sounds to open and vice versa. In english there are a lot. English is hard for me with stutter....

Hello , I am new into this group 👋🏻 I am Italian, but now I live in Uk. I can say that.. unfortunately no matter which leanguage speak, I stutter anyway. Actually with english even more. I think i...

I stutter in both my main languages (catalan, spanish) , but not so much in French or English, maybe because I learned them later in life or because I need to speak slowlier and think about my pronoun...

I had repetition stutter since I was in the 2nd grade. I’m over here turning over an engine trying to get an r word out. It was something my parent thought I’d grow out of. (Rightfully so as I underst...