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I totally understand how you feel. I've dealt with a stutter my entire life, and I too thought that I couldn't make jokes, make witty comments, etc with a stutter. Later I found out that is really all...

I mean I went to speech therapy for a bunch of years but mindset plays a big part of being comfortable too....

Rowan Atkinson stuttered very severely at the start of his career during Mr Bean, look where he is now. He showed that he could act very very well without saying anything but 'Bean'. So you're complet...

You can stutter without struggle. That is a possible thing. It takes a lot of work to get to that point, but that's the journey I'm on and it's working. ...

when i was younger it did bother me to speak to another stutterer. its probably because we are so used to other people being fluent and we being the source disfluency that we cringe. i remember in a...

I hate to say this, but I feel the reason for this is because we're so frustrated about our own stutter, as I've come to accept mine more, I've become more comfortable with other stutterers too. It's...

I saw a person who beat it completely. Can I do it too?

I saw a person who beat it completely. Can I do it too? I saw this fitness channel of an ex stutterer on youtube. Tadhg reynolds. He basically made a video on how he used to have a stutter but he did ...

Teach him to own his stutter, accept it and acknowledge it while denying any ill effects. When a stutterer can do that, anyone who belittles them lose all their power. A simply reply of acknowledgem...

Some of the greatest men and women before us dealt with this and did just fine. My advice DON'T over focus! Their is no illness here! Don't water the weeds, and cut the flowers. Cut the weeds, and ...

Sadly for us stutterers, the only solution to that is to get used to it and not let it bother him. Luckily though, people his age have a great chance of growing out of it! Also, you might not be able...

Thank you!! We try not to focus on it, apart from when we are going through the exercises his speech therapist has given us and of course we have explained that it is nothing for him to be ashamed of....

Yea I lived through this. My advice is don't feed it. The more you shine a spotlight in it the more it grows. Talk to him low key in a safe environment, non-threating. What he needs to know is great...

40-something here. Just a couple of tips: Try to 'stammer forward' - don't repeat sounds, and always be trying to move on to the next sound whenever possible. Maintain eye contact (not in an 'establ...

Lack of detail.. Yes it was. .this topic is exhausting to me, and hard to talk about even now at 42. It hurt me. However, I got over it. Verbally not mentally. My advice is so simplistic, but it is ...

For most people, they need to learn to live with stuttering like other people with disabilities. Accept stuttering as a part of you, then learn to cope with it through speech therapy or other coping m...

Hi, Ftus. Sorry to hear about your troubles. I know the feelings all too well. When I was your age, I had very similar thoughts of "when will this just go away?". I waited, waited and waited, and ...

I love making connections and, like you mentioned, listening to their stories. It's also a really nice feeling when someone trusts you with a close secret, or considers you a part of their inner circl...

I was as a child but then changed in puberty, when I got very self-conscious about my stutter. In certain venues, I'm much more outspoken than normal. At work, I'm vocal and want to be the one leading...

If it wasn't for the Internet I never would have met my wife. It's a really good ice breaker for me. That way you sort of know someone before you actually meet. It takes some of the pressure off. I ...

I'm a natural extrovert (I have an introverted side too of course). I don't think it developed any particular way other than it being part of my personality. I've always been a talker and really enjoy...