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It's almost the first thing I do, and I always make a joke about it. It clears the path for anything, from periods of absolute fluency to 100% blocks. I used to abhor the phone, video calls, etc, bu...

Depends on how bad of a day it is for me. Often if I'm having a bad or mediocre day with it I'll say something like "I have a stuttering issue by the way so if you ever have an issue understanding som...

Being upfront about my stutter in interviews?

Being upfront about my stutter in interviews? Hey everyone, First-time poster here and would love to get everyone's opinions about a topic. I have/had a stutter since elementary school and tried eve...

I have never bothered to fix this problem, because I thought this is just temporary.. I was not able to accept myself that I'm a stutterer. Maybe now it's time to rethink I guess.. I guess there are m...

I’m terrible with advice let me just get that disclaimer out of the way and I am merely speaking from experience. I’ve been a stutterer since birth and something that I have learned in my experience ...

You literally took the words right out of my mouth. We're in exactly the same boat. I enjoy talking and meeting new people. I like to say I'm a pretty outgoing person when I **can** be. Sometimes I ju...

Hi. I just wanted to say you're not alone! :) I've literally avoided relationships my entire life because I was scared that I was going to stutter. I would like to find a new job, but I refuse to look...

At some point, we have to buckle down and take control of fear......

At some point, we have to buckle down and take control of fear...... I was always the guy picked as a partner for school presentations. I mean could you blame them? I always tried to shift all the ta...

That actually makes sense as a theory. My mom got me in to see a speech therapist pretty early, but then my dad put a stop to it later, and I did a lot of my improvement on my own after that, so it ma...

Well I began to sutter when I was around 7-8 years old. I was fortunate enough to have parents who didn't "fuck around" and sent me directly to specialists and such. By the age of 13-14 I had most of...

Interesting. I actually only stutter in my native language (French) . (Nowadays my stuttering only appears during stressful moments after many years of hard work) I never stuttered in English or Sp...

Dude this one time I went to McDonald’s and I could only say that I wanted a burger. Girl was confused and asked me..... “....what.....kind...... of burger?” I literally sank in my drivers seat and dr...

I stutter more in non native languages too. I think that’s because my vocabulary in those languages is not broad enough to substitute words easily...

Focus more on your strong areas be so strong in that area that no one can beat you We stutter only 1% rest is just our thoughts and worries about how someone feel about. Stuttering is your nature a...

I’m 25, I work in finance here in the UK and since the lockdown my stuttering has suffered massively. This is primarily because we have so many virtual conferences and calls (and this is my weakness...

My 2 cents: (1) Same thing happened to me. I bought a used telephone off of Ebay and just began practicing picking it up and answering it (this may sound weird to some people but my background is ...

Let's talk about speech specialists and how to choose one

Let's talk about speech specialists and how to choose one Hello everyone from Belarus! I sure almost no one knows what kind of country Im talking about, but let me know if you're from that 'land') I ...

Cornered at work

Cornered at work I’ve been working as a bank teller for a little over 6 months now. As with most stutters being on a phone causes a lot of anxiety and when anxiety hits I freeze up and can’t get words...

Stutter in foreign languages?

Stutter in foreign languages? I speak two languages besides English, and despite knowing one of them since early childhood and learning it not far behind my English, it seems like my stutter is much w...

Sometimes my stutter is just lol

Sometimes my stutter is just lol I struggle when saying my last name. It is a curse that I wish on nobody as it is very common to have to verify your last name in a public setting, with a stranger or ...