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commentr/StutterJan 8, 2019
3 points

I'm a doctor too! What's your specialty? Good to see another doctor who has a stutter. High five! ✋🏼...

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commentr/StutterJan 8, 2019
2 points

Everyone is different and follows their own path as a PWS. When I turned 40, I made a conscious decision to face my stutter and embrace it. Every challenge, wall or conflict I encountered, I faced ...

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commentr/StutterJan 8, 2019
3 points

First, so sorry for your loss of your friend. As for your mother, it is amazing that you have such a strong role model and she has learned to reign in her stutter. As for you, like me, it took som...

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commentr/StutterJan 8, 2019
2 points

That’s impressive. Good for you. We all can’t let our stutters hold us back. Use the voice you have. Which I know isn’t always easy. ...

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commentr/StutterJan 7, 2019
2 points

I graduated from college doing many early semester intros. ive been there. Introductions will be the worst. I once was in a meeting with the assistant CIO and couldn't get my name out. I took my time ...

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commentr/StutterJan 6, 2019
1 points

I've heard it before. I had immediate mixed emotions about it. Lots of frustration, and a little resentment. There's this oppressive thing that I've dealt with for years like a chain around my...

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commentr/StutterJan 6, 2019
2 points

I am very happy for you, because I know this feeling very well. I am in relationship for 7 years and I can stutter and have as many blocks as I want to the person next to me and he still loves me....

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commentr/StutterJan 6, 2019
4 points

Honestly, almost everyone I’ve dated has told me my stutter was cute, attractive, etc. Remember: your worst enemy is you. Most people don’t care about your stutter, and if they do, then they can go fu...

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commentr/StutterJan 6, 2019
1 points

To be honest it's probably just a cycle of these improved techniques I pick up meaning I stutter slightly less than I thought I would in a presentation / conversation and then confidence goes up which...

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commentr/StutterJan 5, 2019
1 points

I use to use my hands a lot when I talked because for some reason I was able to keep a rhythm and stay fluent. However, a professor of mine who also stutters told me that hand motions is a secondary b...

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commentr/StutterJan 5, 2019
5 points

CONGRATULATIONS 👍🙌🙏 Don't make it a big deal, she will like you for you and that's the truth. I'll be celebrating my 24th Anniversary next month and it's been an amazing journey. ...

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commentr/StutterJan 5, 2019
1 points

i agree that it is a blessing, despite the difficulty. it made me better and it made me honestly assess myself. in terms of finding my voice, it also made me extremely in favour of free speech. when...

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commentr/StutterJan 5, 2019
2 points

Mine was relatively late too, picked up my stammer from when I was 16 which didn't help my French and English GCSEs at all. Developed over AS and A2 when it was at its worst I would say. I found tha...

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commentr/StutterJan 4, 2019
1 points

I feel the same way. I’m no longer super hard on myself for my stutter as I was in school. I’m still on the quieter side but I don’t avoid interaction like I used to. If you don’t mind me asking, ho...

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commentr/StutterJan 4, 2019
2 points

you have a great attitude, i'm slowly getting there, too (31, married for two years, trying for kids in the next year or so). my views on my stutter are changing but it's a slow course for sure...

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commentr/StutterJan 4, 2019
9 points

Having my stutter for 43 years has taught me empathy. I look at the world differently than everyone else and I have to find alternative ways to communicate if I have a block. At 48, I could care les...

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commentr/StutterJan 3, 2019
1 points

Or he doesn’t care about it enough to bring it up, like me, and to ignore it may be the best course idk tho...

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commentr/StutterJan 3, 2019
4 points

We don't typically talk about "cure" when dealing with stuttering. We talk about _managing_. Speech therapy is geared towards this - have you tried that?...

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commentr/StutterJan 2, 2019
1 points

Sounds like you have people in your life that genuinely don't care about your stutter. The only person that cares is you. You are your own enemy. The best thing I've learned in speech therapy is ac...

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commentr/StutterDec 31, 2018
1 points

But stutter _is_ a problem. Lots of things are, to be honest. It's just important that we place the perspective correctly when we call something 'a problem'. And besides, there are those around us wh...

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