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I know how you must feel, but take this from me: I tried many ways to think about stuttering, speaking slowly, checking my breathing, but you know what... Just don't care for it. When you don't think...

Could you try to change the words in front of it to something that comes out smoother? I know on words I'm not great at saying but have to say I can change the words in front (I stutter with saying ju...

Brilliant coping mechanisms you’ve come up with. My first name has a hard T and then my last name starts with an “Eh” sound. So I’m pretty fucked with my name. I will try saying “celiac” in a more sin...

Have you tried singing it? Or saying it in a sing song tone? I stutter hard-core with my own name. I get the repeating letters and the block thing at the beginning of my name. The only thing that h...

I see, the only advice I can give in that case is to try talk more. Even read out loud to yourself for 20 minutes a day, or try get into more speaking situations. Definitely try your hardest to not be...

Trust me I know how he feels. I'm not so bad with mine, but my worst is when I was a cashier. I found that I get hit hard when I had to say the total and a number that is 50-59 is in the total. Those ...

That's so true. I used to hate when teachers told me to read in classes because i just couldn't, would stutter like crazy. The strange thing is that they didn't see me as a stutter guy because i usu...

I can't even imagine about reading something in public and i don't stutter much normally, but speaking/reading in public and over the phone are my nemesis. One of the most embarassing times of my life...

I know that we all have different extremes in terms of how big or small our stutters are. The one thing I started to realize when I got older about my stutter, is to find out what words, or start of t...

Thank you for your response. Using synonyms is a great idea. That's why I'm reaching out directly to those who have lived or work with this condition directly. He has a speech therapist but as you men...

As a lifelong stutterer myself I don’t have the answers but I can tell you I got almost nothing from the 4 speech therapists I had throughout my public school experience. All they ever told me was to ...

I know how difficult it is to be in that position. I've been evading things all my life and I can't and don't want to do it anymore. It's ruined my life so bad that I've missed out on so many opportun...

God i suffer from exacly the same thing as you. Sometimes, i don't know why, i can't spell my first name so i use my second, but almost no one knows me for my second so it's really enbarrasing. Other ...

Hey mate. I identify myself with exacly the same problem. I can speak for 30 minutes without sutteting once sometimes, and others i can't even say my name on the phone. I try to block some words which...

My stammer has improved a lot over the years, I still have some bad days and it still takes up a lot of my mind, but it doesn't bother me as much anymore, when it happens now I just get a block. I liv...

Thanks for taking the time to respond to my post. I really appreciate it. I too have faced similar situations in which I've used my middle name because I just can't utter my first name but the proble...

I definitely noticed that I stutter more in a foreign language regardless of fluency. For example I grew up speaking 2 languages at home (English and my ancestral language) and I constantly find mysel...

If you're nervous, talk right to your best friend. If you're really nervous about your speech, opening with a joke about it usually helps, "..of course out of all of Dave's friends he asks the one wit...

As someone who stutters, you need an iron resolution. It's the only way to survive. It's important to not let the stutter win by changing what you want to say. I imagine that you love your friend and ...

Yeah, I guess. Sometimes it's hard to say simple things like "hello" or "Thank you." So, people think I am hesitant or don't wanna say anything. It's hard to express...