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Whenever I get stopped at road blocks for drunk drivers I always lead with telling them that I have a stutter and that's why my speech is messed up, not because I'm just black out drunk. I've made a c...

I don’t think this counts, but I go by a nickname that I have been called since childhood. I hate saying my legal name but I’m getting better at it. Somehow however I do sometimes stutter my nickname ...

I thought about this a long time ago! I stutter on a few specific letters (mainly L which is what my name starts with) and people ask me all the time if I forgot my name. I know it can be frustrating,...

You can do it. Do not give up hope.

You can do it. Do not give up hope. Extremely long time lurker. First time poster. I just wanted to share that I’ve been a stutterer since I was a child (M 28). I started my IT career about 5 years ag...

I stutter on my name too, always have to preface it with "My name is..." to get it out....

Same, still, to this day. Am nearly completely fluent but for that... It's the one consistent sticking point for me too, for nearly 40 years. And it comes at the start of interactions so there really ...

I’m pretty fluent at this point in my life, but just the other day I woke up in a panic when I realized I was going to a meeting where I would have to introduce myself to a group of people. I usually ...

Nah it happens like every voice chat I’m in and sometimes IRL and I don’t really know how to communicate without stuttering a bunch...

I have an awful memory too. I feel like people view me as really "slow" in general when talking, as alot of times it looks like I zone out of conversations or forget what I'm about to say but it's a...

I used to use a few tricks like saying ‘my-name-is’ before my name to get into the flow of talking before then saying my name. I’m in few situations now where I have to give my name but when I do it’...

I only have online friends as I don’t have any IRL ones. We voice chat a lot and usually I have a bunch of jokes and stuff to talk about and I could talk perfectly with absolutely 0 issues. But then o...

Same here, mine definitely is a result of social anxiety though. I have a near to perfect home life as such, and have lots of great friends at school so it's weird I have the social anxiety to begin w...

I had this problem before and I use different intros to try and help. For example: Hi, my name is.... or I’m called.... you could try and find an Intro that helps...

I guess so. It’s just so frustrating. Because I’m not a socially awkward or anxious person. In fact when I’m with a group of people I know I’m talking all night and quite often find myself centre of a...

This is exactly how I feel most of the time. Them: “Hi my name is such and such” Me: “Hi...” Then I feel like an idiot and all day everyday for days if not weeks and I go over and over it every s...

It's something that crossed my mind. But ultimately I couldn't think of any name that was both noticably easier to say, and still felt like me. In my job introducing yourself to new people is very ...

Voice to text and speaking to a GPS are also hard. Maybe one day programmers can build in an editing feature to "problem solve" words that are not produced typically....

Hey so this I figured out is part of the problem, other people don't generally "pre-load" sentences, and instead decode their idea back into words, phrase by phrase thinking along the way if this make...

the company i work for put emphasis this past year on "diversity and inclusion" and they asked if anyone in the dept wanted to give a ted talk on the subject, so i took the bait with another colleague...

Hi. 22F here and I have felt what you felt before and have had my stutter for as long as I can remember, but it does get better. After graduating college, I was terrified about not being able to find ...