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Listen...I really understand there are times when I can’t text...and I do not text during those times. I’m talking about something specific here. I was looking for a place to vent...not argue with som...

I completely understand where you are coming from, but there are times where you can't just text: phonecalls from doctors, scheduling appointments, phone interviews, work calls, etc. There's so many b...

With respect...no. I have had this response before...and...no. I will not face a fear that I have had since I have had a working memory. I am well beyond young adulthood, and I have faced this fear th...

Thank you a lot for your response. Thinking about it now, I believe that it could be a result of all the changing in my life and bureaucracy I have been doing without my parents. I‘ll definetely take ...

Refusal To Text

Refusal To Text People who are in my life know that I struggle with the phone, but some of them still almost refuse to text me, knowing that I struggle, and still call me primarily...and then wonder w...

To answer everyone, No i am not in school. I flunked my first semester in all 4 classes with grades ranging from 11-34 . Ive been kicked out of the school and denied fafsa for the next year. The scho...

For me, bad blocks were a symtom of avoidance behaviors that I had to correct. The longer I would run from situations, the worse my speech would become. For example, for the longest time I would avoid...

SLP here who has studied stuttering - the reason why this works is because your brain is focusing on the novelty of the accent, which lessens the frequency of stuttering in that instance. Many childre...

I block and stutter in English(first language) since I was 6 but I don't in my 2nd language. A lot of it I believe has to do with the translation parts of the brain interacting also with the normal sp...

Sorry also to add to that I was quite a bad stammerer and i just fell into driving and found that i could get on by hardly speaking to anyone But on the flip side is that since I've had thera...

I'm 14 years old and can relate to this alot. I've had no previous issues with talking, but suddenly I've started stumbling little and often with my words when recalling something or talking to my fri...

Stereotype: stutter is something that can be overcome if you work hard, take some meds, sing, breathe, etc; and if you still stutter in adulthood that means you’re lazy. A lot of times strangers start...

I tend to find that if I’m having sex it goes away completely. Possibly because I’m not really thinking about what I’m saying as much. However, I think it’s more likely to be because I feel no pressur...

I see in many ways how this is true and I agree, it's just natural instinct to choose whether on not you're engaged in a Conversation, and stuttering only makes it around 10x harder to keep someone en...

To be honest it helped me control it more. I stopped thinking about it so much and just started to say fuck it. I feel like it can cure me, I think our stutter is associated with our ego and if u can ...

I feel like that's how some people develop a stutter. I feel like I created it when I was little for attention or something and now it's an actual problem I have....

i avoid arguing all together. Nothing like tryna be blunt or convincing and stutter.

i avoid arguing all together. Nothing like tryna be blunt or convincing and stutter. anyone else avoid disagreements? just letting it roll off your shoulder.....

Post Fluency - How not to be an outsider?

Post Fluency - How not to be an outsider? Am new to this subreddit but like everyone here it's a subject that's close to my heart. I'm 37 and have always had a stutter. There is no living memory befo...

I feel like my stutter can be completely cured.

I feel like my stutter can be completely cured. I have had a stutter off and on my whole life with the cause being my social anxiety and depression. If I'm feeling bummed or lonely or super bored I ha...

I got downvoted to hell last time I mentioned this. But I have a real I'd say medium level stutter. Some days I'm fairly fluent others I can't get a word out. But when I was in high school everyone ba...