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This is good. Likely everyone already knows. Nobody gives a shit but you, OP. If it helps, apologize in advance and own it. Having cues to improvise from is helpful so you can adapt as you go. Don't s...

Here's what I did. Senior year finally came I couldn't hold off on taking business communications any longer(class full of speeches and crap). First day of class during introductions I told everyone t...

I just can't seem to be ok with stuttering. There are a few moments when I am ok with stuttering in a moment and I can calm down and just stutter easily but most of the time im uncontrollably trying s...

Hi spuddingdrunk, I must have missed this comment. I'm really sorry about that. Regarding what to look for when you're 50, 60 and 70 and stuttering. I think that may be a valid concern, but why not ...

I think a key principle is *don't make it into a disability when it doesn't have to be*, and from what I see, you've been doing a pretty good job in that area. When you're not sure what the accepted b...

Well... Then fuck 'em. If they get impatient over your stuttering, you know what kind of people they are and that you don't have to give them a shred of your concern or thought. Just keep trying to ge...

Just plow through it head on. I'm exactly where you are. Maybe we're suckers for punishment, but I too have purposely found jobs where communication is important. I used to work as a journalist; imag...

Just let them wait! Even if you have terrible blocks, so what? You're won't piss them off by stuttering. In fact, if you just keep going they most likely won't even care. Don't try to think of other...

Does your manager(s) know about your stutter? I mean it sucks, but some tasks just aren't suited for stutterers, like answering phones or speaking over a microphone. Blocks can be very transient. What...

Thanks for both of your comments. I guess acceptance has to happen on several levels; let's say, we can accept that there is little we can do but embrace ourselves with our broken speech, and thus n...

I know exactly what you mean. It kind of is a defeatist attitude in the sense that you still have a stutter. I have not given up on my stutter, I've tried thinking about it in a different way which ...

I can claim to regularly accept my stutter. Also interesting note on age. I went to a NSA conference a few years back and every old person I spoke with had the mildest stutter. They all had the sa...

Figure out what your anxious about and flip it. This isn't the first time you presented, so everyone probably knows you have a stutter. You have nothing to hid. Know that everyone is anxious about p...

Personally I have never had someone not want to be my friend because I stuttered. I've never had a girl reject me because I stuttered. Kids can be cruel, but adults are different. Of course you will h...

Great article, great writing. I'm pretty torn about stuttering. On the one hand I can rationally see the value of acceptance. Of not ploughing so much energy into something that many believe has a ne...

Look man, you are an awesome human being! Don't let a stutter get to you. You're capable of anything you set your mind to. I don't really stutter, but it does happen to everyone. You can either get ou...

This was a good read. I'm almost 32 and I still stutter, sometimes pretty badly. I've 'accepted it' as far as I know it's a part of me that won't ever go away. But I don't think I'm quite as far al...

I totally agree. I was talking to a friend of mine who was diagnosed with PTSD when I realized that. He said he may have been diagnosed, but he hated it as a label because it put him down. He said h...

>The one thing I refuse to identify myself as is someone who stutters. Not because stuttering is bad, but because it’s just a character trait, much like a big nose or my basketball-sized noggin. I...

>I don't think I can pray it away. of course you can't (and i'm sorry for being all nonreligious in your face, but one of the things that saddens me the most in this world is the thought of people...