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Zoom #2

Zoom #2 Hi everyone. Thanks so much to all who joined the last meeting. The next meeting will be hosted on Sunday May 17th, at 3:00 PM est standard US time. There will be a time limit sadly for this m...

Man I completely feel you. It makes total sense why you stuttered severely though. How much value you give their judgements of you, determine how much you will stutter. I've had it too. Met up with ...

I totally agree with this last point. When I stammer I’m always thinking about what other people are thinking, e.g. “What if they think I don’t know what I’m talking about?”, and these thoughts clutte...

I have no hope and feel like crying.

I have no hope and feel like crying. I was playing basketball today and my old classmate from high school showed up randomly. We started talking. And I could barely tell him what college I graduated f...

My story and asking for advice and tips please

My story and asking for advice and tips please Im 16, male, and for as long as i can remember i have been stuttering. In elementary school i would go go a speech therapist but then they said im fine a...

Should I Apply To Be A NYS COVID-19 Contact Tracer?

Should I Apply To Be A NYS COVID-19 Contact Tracer? I’m 24M I live on Long Island and have an opportunity to apply to be a COVID-19 contact tracer. The job is essentially making phone calls all day to...

Yea man same,it happens to me everytime im put into a new environment. But then after getting used to the environment my stutter goes down by like 80% and i suddenly start overthinking abt how ppl wil...

Stutterer.

Stutterer. Ever since I was little, I stutter. It bothers me so much. I often avoid calls, which makes me feel even worse because I know the non-confrontational behaviour won’t help in the long run, I...

Thanks for sharing what you're going through. I've the opposite problem. Before the lockdown, I was used to being around lot of people in the office, and making small conversation (in break room, or j...

Thanks for the update. I'm big coffee lover, but I'm thinking about stopping drinking coffee completely. I've mild/moderate stutter that gets worse as the number of audience increases. I've always ...

Is it possible a car accident could make my stutter worse?

Is it possible a car accident could make my stutter worse? Feel like I'm going crazy my stutter has slowly been getting worse and worse ever since my car accident in September 2019. A week after the a...

Hy, I also sttuter when I am under stress. When I am relaxed, I talk ok, but when I have to talk in front of people, I freeze out. I just hate it. I want to be relaxed like all the time, because I thi...

Feeling stuck

Feeling stuck Quarantine got me a lot of time to think and I realized **I am feeling stuck**. I am in mid 20s and I dont have a job, a place to live on my own, also my dreams are very far (from my poi...

Is my stammer psychosomatic?

Is my stammer psychosomatic? To be honest I think it is. It really only happens when I get nervous, frustrated or excited. I could be talking normally for hours and then as soon as my heart rate bumps...

Friendly reminder that allowing yourself to not get attached to an emotion is as important as allowing yourself to feel through it.

Friendly reminder that allowing yourself to not get attached to an emotion is as important as allowing yourself to feel through it. I just had an encounter with the new neighbor that moved in on the f...

Zoom class, I did it!

Zoom class, I did it! My stuttering has always stopped me from giving opinions or even asking questions in class since I was in school, and now, virtual classes increased my anxiety. I truly thought I...

Hi everyone. So tomorrow I’m hosting a zoom meeting...

Hi everyone. So tomorrow I’m hosting a zoom meeting... Hi everyone tomorrow I’m hosting a zoom meeting (TJ Traver is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Stuttering community zoom meeting...

I called my mom and my grandma today!

I called my mom and my grandma today! It was especially hard to bring myself to call my grandma since she only speaks English and it's not my native language (making me block more), but I still did it...

I experience something like this too! So when I‘m with people I just met, I tend to stutter less. When with my parents it‘s like a return to the old habits and stutter a lot. My therapist said it ha...

Does anyone have any experience with anti-anxiety medication?

Does anyone have any experience with anti-anxiety medication? I am wondering whether I should go see a doctor to help treat my social anxiety which most of us have as a byproduct of our stutter. I've...