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I feel blessed that after a lifetime of stuttering I don’t stutter anymore. It was definitely helpful that I am a speech pathologist. I understood the dynamics of speech and the reason for my stutter....

I appreciate that experience of stuttering and how we live with it is subjective. But I object and completely disagree with calling it a “disability”. It’s only a disability if you allow it to be. I...

I always looked at it the other way around. My stutter is a blessing because I can right away see who are the people worth my time and who aren’t. Those that don’t have patience to listen to me, or ...

Stuttering does not make me feel weak. I have achieved a lot, because I don't let stuttering hold me back....

I stutter and I'm extremely social. If I stutter when I talk to someone, I either get through it or just let it happen, sometimes people are weird and sometimes they aren't and my life isn't any diffe...

Noo, I'm a student. And yes, he gave presentations and stuttered a lot, he had good and bad days like all stutterers. Also when the teacher asked something he was the first to answer, the truth was ad...

I know for some people here this might be an unpopular comment; but I joined the McGuire Programme two years ago and it helped me tremendously, as it did many many other people who I meet in the progr...

I understand, i gave up and accepted it the wrong way. needless to say things only got worse and turned into complete isolation, thats just how it ends. so please i tell u from bottom of my heart to g...

It’s interesting that you added that you were african american at the end there. I’m 30yo, Honduran-American (100% Honduran blood but basically whitewashed), gay, and I have adhd + depression diagnosi...

I feel you on this I've hung up on people plenty of times and of course I felt bad about it but I realize I have free will and it doesn't matter...

Well I don’t actively desire fluency. But sometimes, stuttering still is really hard in the moment that it’s happening. But you just realize that even if something is hard, acceptance is the best opti...

Yes. Sort of. So now its like it doesn’t matter at all whether you stutter or not. You don’t desire fluency , yet you see yourself getting fluent. This is an interesting way to get rid of this, once a...

By accepting, that I cannot change my stutter and that i am stuck with it for the rest of my life. So might as well make the best of it...

I certainly know how you feel. I am a lifelong stutterer as well as a speech pathologist. Communication is everything in my field. I was able to get through the days one day at a time. I always felt a...

learning the hard way

learning the hard way so my stuttering is hereditary and I’ve been dealing with it since I was born. It really developed and got pretty bad at age 6, whereas I literally had to stop everything and foc...

I learned to "stutter with confidence". I don't let it get me down or let it throw away whatever I was going to say. I actually quite like giving presentation and talking for hours on end. It just tak...

Thanks for asking!!! It definitely wasn’t easy to achieve, although looking back it seems so easy and simple…. Basically I thought about it for a really long time, meditated, journaled, just became o...

I guess i dont really think about much when I stutter with people I’m close to. They know I stutter and accept it so I don’t really care when talking to them. When it’s with people I’ve never spoken t...

This made me smile! I’ve had this same after the fact realization and yes it’s monumental! High five. Keep living and talking - and take time every so often to reflect and congratulate yourself on ev...

I am not trying to sell anything. This information I am sharing helped me to become fluent. You need to believe what you want to believe. Whether you choose to learn to become fluent is up to you. The...