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I hate this advice so, so much and it is wrong. Let the crutch be destroyed (which it won’t for a while), then find another one....

The best trick is to be who you are and don't try to fake it. What are you doing is destructive and it will eventually backfire. It's a crutch made of sand that will be destroyed. Just struggle throug...

I am M23 and my stutter is relatively hard, in my opinion... In most situations I am not able to say what's on my mind, but when I am with my family or friends, it is sometimes totally alright, somet...

Thank you so much! My summary: * 0:30: In certain situations, we can say anything * 1:00 Why do we depend on other people to say anything? (like picking up the phone, we get scared and block) Ask yo...

I don't mean this to sound as harsh as it does, but you're making it harder than it needs to be, or you could make it easier by not trying to hide your stutter all the time. Of course the path and wor...

I think you misspoke. Your mask came off today and imo, you should be relieved. Everyone has bad days and I think you are being hard on yourself. Tomorrow will be a better day but avoidant behavior ca...

Yea I do. I have other disorders, ADHD and NVLD which I've been diagnosed for. If I have just had stuttering, I would still say I have a disability since mine can get severe, especially at a new job...

Congrats on getting a job. Nice one, interviews in particular are often difficult to navigate for us. Negative feedback loops are terrible. You speak a customer, it goes poorly, your manager is unsup...

I wonder if our love for singing is an escape from our normal stuttering speech, since we have perfect control of our speech patterns...

I don't agree. Representation can be a good thing, even if it's not authentic (actors act - it's what they do). It won't be watertight but that's the same for all performance. Best thing is to do the...

You need to flesh out your idea here. What depth would be added by disability? How would it add to the anti-war message in the monologue? Are you a professional actor or a drama student? The subject ...

I might have spoken wrong. No one speaks completely fluently. However, we seek to speak without having a handicap or an impediment. I have reached that....

I was coming in here to strongly disagree with the title but if you change "stuttering" to "avoidance" I think you have a pretty good post (minus the breathing stuff).  You are correct, if you chang...

Nope, I find it makes it worse for me actually. Tried that before a job interview and I could barely talk....

Maybe you can make a poll instead. I'm interested in everyone's answer also. For me, telling people that I stutter, leads to stuttering more because then I start identifying myself as a person who stu...

I think it probably would. I hate acknowledging my stutter so I could never do it...

Interesting! I'm sure there are outliers to what I described, and we're always learning more about stuttering as time progresses so I don't claim to have the final word on things. I do think that how ...

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I just had a great day Last week my boss told me that I had to do a presentation on the work I've been doing last year. The goal was to share the results I had encountered with colleagues from other d...

Happened to me today at school. Had a friend who knows I have a speech impediment but for some reason I don’t really stutter around him. But today I did have a bad stutter while talking to him, we jus...

My summary of this **great** video: * use positive affirmations: "**I'm already fluent**" (to deal with the high expectations/anxiety/pressure of stuttering) (to feel like we can say anything) * be a...