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How do people usually react to your stutter?

How do people usually react to your stutter? For me people don't really say anything about my stutter. It seems like people will look in my eyes more intently or nod along more than with other people...

Like I said, I just stopped caring all together, whenever I want to talk or say a word that I feel I'll stutter on, I say it anyway but syllable by syllable, the perfect example is on the phone, I say...

I can relate w/ you. My name starts with a vowel and I usually struggle with vowels (the air doesn't come out sometimes). Like another person here commented, a workaround I found was appending my firs...

Dude i can relate so much. I stutter horribly on my name, and avoid any scenario where I would have to say my name. My names Roman and I stutter so badly on the R part. it's so annoying...

I feel this so bad. The main thing I stutter on is my name and it is such a defeating feeling having someone say “you forgot your name?” 🙄🙄🙄🙄 Spare me! One thing that helps me is visualizing my ...

Is your stutter hereditary?

Is your stutter hereditary? I have a moderate stutter (block, repetition, elongation) and have had it since I was about 4 years old. My mother also has a stutter (blocks, elongation) so I assume I “go...

Have any of you guys experienced this?

Have any of you guys experienced this? Do any of you guys wonder if a woman/man says she's in a relationship because she's turned off by your stutter? Today I (18M) was out running at the beach when...

This happens a lot when I'm reading out loud. If it's with a friend, I sort of say "wow okay my brain won't let me say this right now" and sort of 'bounce around' the sentence before eventually being ...

I personally don't stutter when reading text. Maybe it's the same for you? And if you know you struggle on some words/sounds. For example i struggle with vowel sounds mainly A, then you can edit your...

I'm having a mental breakdown.

I'm having a mental breakdown. I'm a recovering drug addict (9 months clean from opioids), I have a social anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety disorder,ocd, depression and probably ADHD. I'm on so ...

Are you a serious stutterer? Like on every word. Or is it specific words? For me it's mainly words starting from K,C...

I’ve known multiple SLP’s who had no idea my hard silent blocks and awkward word avoidances were because I’m a covert stutterer. We cannot expect strangers on the street to know. But there absolu...

This. I feel the exact same. Phone calls with customer services or my best friend, it doesn’t matter. I be blocking and there happens 5-10 silence. My bff knows it but a stranger? They think I hung up...

With SSRI's (like Pexoxetine) you need to take them permanently, but you may not like the side effects or you may be allergic to them and may need to stop. With Xanax, it's just taken before the stres...

Try medications. They make stuttering go away. Peroxetine, Xanax, etc....

Try medications. Peroxetine, Xanax, ... all make stuttering go away....

in a very similar situation to you. Focus on the underlying anxiety, not the speech itself is my biggest piece of advice. As far as medication, propanolol helps for situations in which you may have to...

Trust me bud it's not the end of the world. I remember my first phone interview where I stuttered a little but I still got the phone I just blamed it on bad reception. The 2nd interview of my life was...

Do you tell the interviewer ahead of time that you have disfluency? Stuttering is a disability. In my opinion you absolutely should let them know. Do you stutter less when you read? If so... RE phon...

Never going to get a job

Never going to get a job I can't do this anymore. I just bombed another phone interview. I graduated two years ago, and I'm still jobless. I can't seem to get past the initial phone screening interv...