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A good approach is to have a meeting with: your parents, your teachers & the speech therapist so that everyone knows what is going on. Make a plan and stick to it. Most importantly, focus on ...

My biggest enemy was a phone, when I need to call somethere I make excuses, I give phone to friends family members, but once I says it's enough, and I starting calling by my self. 3 times I call and w...

Extroverted introvert who stutters

Extroverted introvert who stutters Hello. I was little when it started, as i remember i saw a bad dream or something and i just started stuttering. Then around at the age of 8 even though i stuttere...

I wish powering through worked for me, since it's nice to not care sometimes. Unfortunately, I just end up making car sounds until I run out of breath, the few times I've tried....

I've lost hope for a cure. Now I just break through the blocks with blunt force every time they pop up. No more avoidance tactics, no word substitution, no staying silent, no avoiding eye contact or v...

1st sound/syllable is most common. It is also portrayed the most in acting. However, people may stretch sounds, break voice mid-word, totally block (tight larynx and no sound), and the somewhat rare...

Previous stutterer replaced it with poor speech habits

Previous stutterer replaced it with poor speech habits I'm needing help here. As I child I had a horrible stutter, my brain was working much faster than I was able to speak. I never went to speech the...

The ones that work for me are putting on your ‘phone voice’ and slowing down how fast you go through a sentence! One that works for me is changing my accent to something different but I don’t think t...

There's one time where the teacher asked a question I knew the answer to, but knowing that I stutter, I didn't raise my hand. It benefits me because the answer I had was wrong in the first place. Oth...

I cannot believe grown ass adults are still mocking stutterers. This used to happen when I was in elementary school, are you telling me it still happens in adulthood? My advice is, just ignore them? ...

One time a couple of months ago when I was in school, I walked into class and I spoke to my friend and my stutter broke through and I heard someone laugh. I turn around to see the typical sports kid w...

My name stops me from dating

My name stops me from dating Hi all, I’m mainly here to vent about how little I date just because I’m worried about saying my name. This doesn’t affect my work life... I talk all day and have to ...

It has affected my dating life in a way that I was scared to talk to girls because of fear of being judged but I've learned to take control I make it no secret that I stutter when I talk to girls I ev...

Just realized I still stutter! It has returned..

Just realized I still stutter! It has returned.. So I have been stuttering all my life but it has gradually been less as I have gotten older and more consciously aware. I can’t remember the last time ...

I feel you dude. Not sure how old you are, but I'm 29 and whilst my stutter isn't terrible, when I hit a block on something like my surname or a food order it's painful. But then a few years ago I pos...

What i always do when i meet someone i am interested in, i tell them i stutter and what it is. And also that they should keep eye contact and wait when i am stuttering. All my friends barely notice it...

Honesty haven't mentioned to people as much as I should.. I've hated it for so long that in my head it's this big ugly thing that I'd rather not bring up I even get anxious just thinking about telling...

I’m almost 30, and I’ve accepted my stutter (though it’s not like I had a choice). I have a particularly severe stutter that’s impossible to hide (takes me like a minute to say 2-4 words) and speech t...

I know how you feel, but how often have you just admitted to others that you have a stutter when you're speaking ad get stuck on a word? In my experience people find the honestly endearing more than ...

I had to stop trying to mask it. The techniques I was using sounded worse than the stutter. I'm almost 40 and have been stuttering my whole life. I have a family with kids. My daughters have slight sp...