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I'm a SpeechEasy provider and stuttering specialist SLP. In my not-so-humble opinion, SE can be a great device for a limited number of people. There are a number of factors that contribute to long-te...

The only place I have had succes is friends from friends, the setting makes me more relaxed I think. Met my current gf at a friends party. She doesnt mind my stutter at all. She also didnt know untill...

It's very clear, darkizzle. You are a doctor. You will continue to be a doctor. There is shift you have not yet made about being a stutterer. A good speech language pathologist, *one who specializ...

I'm a fourth year in med school and also a stutterer so I can relate to everything you wrote. I also did not realize just how challenging a career in medicine would be for someone with a stutter. Duri...

You can accept what you have just now and know your situation is temporary (always growing and improving). But...acceptance from a perspective of having it stay the same forever (doing nothing about i...

Either scenario applied, depending on the girl. Sometimes I pursued them, sometimes they were interested in me first. I've not had loads of girlfriends, but a decent amount before I got married. My wi...

> I realized that most people don't really care all that much. I think? You're absolutely right. For fluent people who've never struggled with this, when they encounter you, they don't give your s...

There will be plenty of other opportunities. It helped me to change my perceptions of interviews. Previously I viewed them as a nerve wrecking, scary situation where I was convinced I would stutter ...

What you have to realize is that many stutterers haven't let stuttering ruin their lives and are successful at their passions. You mention that you struggle socially, which is common among stutterers ...

All people who stutter experience a roller coaster of good periods of speech and bad periods of speech. For some, these periods last months or years, for me they last days or weeks. In any case, the b...

I'm not sure I should give you advice as I'm in a pretty bad place myself. However, try looking up speeches from people who stutter. You might find this uncomfortable as hearing people stutter often ...

In didn't go on SSI but I signed up with the disability office in college. Biggest mistake of my life. I signed up with it so I wouldn't have to give presentations in front of an entire class of peopl...

>That's the thing I want to happen is that talking about it doesn't feel taboo to me or others. Yes, exactly! This WILL happen. I can tell. :) I see all things. Really, though, it's what you...

I really hope it does, thank you for your encouraging words. That's the thing I want to happen is that talking about it doesn't feel taboo to me or others....

That's how you do it. I recently got my first job (I was on SSI for my stuttering for 4 years and then they decided to scrap it and take me off.) in retail. I work at Walmart which has a "10 foot": ru...

I've almost eliminated it out of my life by not giving a fuck about what other people think about me.

I've almost eliminated it out of my life by not giving a fuck about what other people think about me. A lot of what this sub preaches is to stop caring what other people think about you, learning to a...

Striving to be fluent is fine, but in order to change first you must accept. Acceptance is where change begins. However, one should not just accept and do nothing about it, always try to learn new thi...

I'm a 30 year old severe stutterer, and over the past 5 years I've realized that people don't care nearly as much as I used to think. I grew up being paranoid and embarrassed that people would see me ...

One method that has helped me

One method that has helped me I have suffered from a severe stutter since i could talk, and through time my stutter haa gotten better currently i'm 20yo male and my stutter is probably considered mild...

you are trying everything to NOT stutter and that creates a lot of tension. try to stutter on purpose a few times (yes, thats not a joke) and you will see that through acceptance the tension lessens a...