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commentr/StutterFeb 5, 2025
1 points

I’m not a recent immigrant but I stutter and am a college counselor. I talk to folks all day, sometimes I stutter, sometimes I don’t. I’m self conscious about it but I power through it. When I start...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilitySchool & Work
Hiding & ConcealmentSeverity & FluctuationEmployment & Career
commentr/StutterFeb 5, 2025
1 points

Not smarter. Possibly more experienced. I was a never-a-fluent-sentence stutterer. Eyes-shut, run-out-of-breath blocks. Wasn't until my mid-to-late 20's that I got fluent. That was a lifetime ago. ...

Causes & VariabilityCoping & AdvocacyEmotional Experience
Severity & FluctuationMindset shiftHope & Motivation
commentr/StutterFeb 5, 2025
1 points

No. Yoy don’t know better. Stop acting smarter, I stutter even when talking with the most comfortable people. It is in fact a disability. Most stutterers stutter every time, regardless of situation/st...

Causes & VariabilityIdentity & Disability
Severity & FluctuationMedicalization / Neurodiversity
commentr/StutterFeb 5, 2025
2 points

As you well know by now there is a no definitive solution to “dealing” with a stutter and there likely never will be but this shouldn’t discourage you. There also isn’t a definitive solution to color...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityIdentity & Disability
Hiding & ConcealmentSeverity & FluctuationAcceptance & Pride
commentr/StutterFeb 5, 2025
4 points

20M. real world experience and working jobs is something that has helped me make tremendous strides in my fluency in recent years, so much to the point where i am able to have near-seamless full conve...

Causes & VariabilityEmotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Severity & FluctuationHope & MotivationIdentity & Self-Perception+1 more
commentr/StutterFeb 4, 2025
1 points

Many people, but most with an ACTUAL stutter cannot be fixed. Yes anxiety makes it worse but not much worse. I stutter just as bad when talking alone and majority of people do too, this is a small per...

Causes & Variability
Neurological & BrainSeverity & Fluctuation
commentr/StutterFeb 2, 2025
1 points

As many have said before, stuttering is a neurological thing. I always hated it when people made any assumption of what it was… anything from the aforementioned useless advice to the suggestion of a w...

Causes & VariabilityTherapy & ProfessionalAnticipation & Avoidance
Neurological & BrainSeeking TherapySeverity & Fluctuation+1 more
commentr/StutterFeb 2, 2025
1 points

19f here, been stuttering since i started talking, its actually been getting a little worse the last year or so...

Causes & Variability
Severity & Fluctuation
commentr/StutterFeb 2, 2025
1 points

30 year old female who stutters! I'm also a speech therapist. Yes, much more common in males....

Causes & Variability
Severity & FluctuationNeurological & Brain
commentr/StutterFeb 2, 2025
1 points

Hello! 32F here I've stuttered basically my whole life. I have not "overcome" it but I manage it to the point where it doesn't control my life anymore....

Causes & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Severity & FluctuationHope & Motivation
commentr/StutterFeb 2, 2025
1 points

I’m female! Been stuttering since the 1980s. I’ve been to many speech therapy support groups where I was the only female. There aren’t as many of us....

Causes & VariabilityCommunity & Support
Severity & FluctuationValidation & Empathy
commentr/StutterFeb 2, 2025
3 points

I'm a stuttering lady at 23!! I've stuttered my whole life!...

Causes & Variability
Severity & Fluctuation
commentr/StutterFeb 2, 2025
1 points

26yo woman too, been stuttering since I could talk and there’s no signs of me “growing out of it” at this age lol...

Causes & Variability
Severity & Fluctuation
commentr/StutterFeb 2, 2025
0 points

I had always wondered about male vs female re: stuttering. Just looked into it: AI Overview According to most research, the male to female ratio for stuttering is significantly higher, with estimat...

Causes & Variability
Genetic & Family FactorsSeverity & Fluctuation
commentr/StutterFeb 2, 2025
18 points

Around 1 out of 5 people who stutter are female. It is definitely more male than female but that's still 20%!...

Causes & Variability
Genetic & Family FactorsSeverity & Fluctuation
commentr/StutterFeb 2, 2025
4 points

I am afraid you are very unlucky. Around 1% of people stammer, but three out of four stammerers are male! The good news is that you are at the perfect age to reach out for help, old enough to have the...

Causes & VariabilityParent & Caregiver
Genetic & Family FactorsSeverity & FluctuationEarly Concern & Onset
commentr/StutterJan 31, 2025
1 points

I’m 18 and seem to have exactly what you have. You cannot control your stutter in the fact you can choose different words or how to phrase it, but you cannot bypass it always especially it you stutter...

Causes & VariabilityAnticipation & AvoidanceIdentity & Disability
Severity & FluctuationAvoidance & SubstitutionIdentity & Self-Perception+1 more
commentr/StutterJan 30, 2025
2 points

it varies from person to person. I learned a few techniques and became more confident in my stutter. but my neurological disorder isn't that common ( i stutter and clutter) so i got frustrated that I ...

Identity & DisabilityTherapy & ProfessionalCauses & Variability
Identity & Self-PerceptionTherapy ExperiencesSeverity & Fluctuation
commentr/StutterJan 30, 2025
6 points

Give it a try. Some stutterers like me have been doing it for majority of their life and didn’t really see much improvement. But some people who never done it before saw change that positively impacte...

Therapy & ProfessionalCauses & Variability
Therapy ExperiencesSeverity & Fluctuation
commentr/StutterJan 29, 2025
2 points

I started speech therapy at age 5 and have gone my whole life. I have given it my all to get as fluent as I am now. Disfluency has different levels and causes and some people will never be able to tra...

Therapy & ProfessionalCoping & AdvocacyCauses & Variability
Therapy ExperiencesFluency TechniquesSeverity & Fluctuation