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Worst Speech rehearsal.

Worst Speech rehearsal. Last year I accepted an opportunity to give a speech. I was so excited. I was riding a wave of spontaneous fluency that I thought would last forever. I wrote my speech and have...

Booking a trip

Booking a trip Soo recently me and my friend booked a trip to Europe for a month, and the booking process was absolutely hell for me. My friend soo carelessly gave them all his information without any...

Luckily, I’ve never had to talk when crossing the boarder. But when I was coming home from visiting Portugal, the Canadian boarder person kept asking me questions like “did I bring alcohol back,” “did...

I used to live 30 minutes from the Canadian border but have never gone into Canada or back by myself because I’ve always had this fear. That said, these other commenters are probably right that it’s p...

The flight or fight response is a learned reaction to how someone feels about their stutter. And this varies from person to person. You can’t just generalize stuttering as us being scared to talk, bec...

It’s not that we are scared of talking. I mean some are because the anxieties and how people react to stuttering can be taunting. But stuttering is a neurological disorder or in genetics from your fam...

If I could be ready for all situations in which the adrenaline rush covers me (“hit or run” reaction), then I could not stutter and more soberly assess situations and people, because at rest I do not ...

Afraidness.. Yeah. I totally agree with you. When I listen to my reaction to other people, it is kind of awkward. It doesn’t go with the flow of talking. I think that’s Because my afraidness makes wh...

I know what is it. Even a few. I'm afraid to make a mistake. I am afraid to be criticized by relatives or other people....

Border guards speak with people every day and as some people find this intimidating, they tend to stutter. Border guards also interact with people who don't speak English or French at all, so verbal ...

Thank you for the response! I really appreciate it. We've been dating for 5 months and he doesn't usually stutter so much around me any more :O He's been insanely stressed recently though, which has...

That's a good idea, I'll test it out and see.. I know what exposure therapy is I know I need to introduce myself more often to feel comfortable with it but it just leaves me feeling weird everytime.. ...

I'm a female stutterer. In my life, I've met two male stutterers and two female stutterers, but I know statistics-wise, a disproportionate number of stutterers are male. Regarding your quest...

That we are nervous! This one annoys me soo much. people tell me "take a deep breath and dont be so nervous". IF ONLY it was that easy ...

Stuttering female here! I haven\`t met any other female who stutters. I know 4 males who stutter, but haven\` met a single female who stutters. And my friends who tell me about other people they kno...

Omg I do that too! Sometimes I’ll just have to blurt something out and didn’t mean to be so loud. Especially over the phone. But hmm, I’ll have to try that out. I’m 23 and in the past couple years I u...

Just realized this happens to me too. It's one of the worst!I don't know about you, but I've found it helps to pre-emptively tell people I'm going to be talking to a lot that I stutter and explain to ...

So how did it go?? Phone interviews scare me and have actually kept me from applying to certain jobs. Learning to be more fearless on the telephone. ...

I know what word I will stutter on and that’s what will cause me to stutter. People always tell me to “just calm down” or ask me why I’m afraid to speak and it’s infuriating. They just don’t know thou...

This! People always tell me to “calm down” because they think I’m afraid to say something when in reality I just stutter....