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commentr/StutterJan 17, 2024
1 points

This is a journey unique to each person…There is no silver bullet fix that will work for everyone. I am 45 years old and have always stuttered. The best thing I did was to legitimately stop caring wha...

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commentr/StutterJan 17, 2024
7 points

The vast majority of these programmes produce limited results and most people who take these programmes go back to stuttering again. You already speak perfectly OK. The only problem with stuttering i...

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commentr/StutterJan 17, 2024
3 points

I felt like you when I was in college. I got tired of being scared to speak. After my first year I needed a job during the summer so I decided to bartend. I thought that would be a good job to have to...

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commentr/StutterJan 17, 2024
6 points

I get it OP, it’s frustrating. My heart goes out to you. I’m a few years older than you and out of college now. I still often wonder why most people get to speak with little to no difficulties and eff...

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commentr/StutterJan 17, 2024
2 points

1. Keep the self-awareness experiments going. There’s a way through. At some point all this wondering will click and lead you onward in your stuttering journey. 2. I used to obsess as to sometimes I’...

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commentr/StutterJan 16, 2024
6 points

It's because of you. I've noticed when I talk alone without thinking about my stutter I never stutter. Never. But the second I'm thinking about it or recording my voice I stutter. We stutter because o...

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commentr/StutterJan 16, 2024
7 points

Stuttering is usually circumstantial. There are times you likely have good speech. I believe stuttering was in my mind. It wasn’t easy to beat my stutter. But it’s possible. And possible for y...

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commentr/StutterJan 15, 2024
12 points

My stutter would have come to an instant halt the moment I saw him get upset. Not sure why but I do not stutter at all when I get mad. And I mean not even in the slightest. He would have had a problem...

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commentr/StutterJan 14, 2024
2 points

Theres a saying that goes "being young is caring what everything thinks about you and trying to act like you don't, and being old is not caring what anything thinks about you but trying to act like yo...

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commentr/StutterJan 14, 2024
3 points

Year_24 gives good advice. Pretending you don’t stutter is one way of doing it, but he’s spot on when saying your attitude in stuttering changes. That’s what helped tremendously with my stutter. I, ...

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commentr/StutterJan 14, 2024
6 points

Good on you! I am in the same mindset with mine and it’s so refreshing to see someone who has also essentially conquered this mountain of a challenge. Cheers mate...

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postr/StutterJan 14, 2024
35 points

Stuttering - it’s okay

Stuttering - it’s okay I’m starting to realise it’s okay that I have a stutter. And that I can just stutter and move on with my sentence. It’s annoying yes. It gets in the way yes. But, it’s okay. It’...

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commentr/StutterJan 14, 2024
10 points

> **How are you able to have a normal life?** Easily. Pretend your stuttering doesn't exist. You're ready to argue, to which I'll reply that by constantly being in situations that are stressful for ...

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commentr/StutterJan 14, 2024
3 points

This is the way! We have to stop our stuttering from defining us as humans. Just embrace it and roll on...

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postr/StutterJan 14, 2024
15 points

Stammering - what I believe it is.

Stammering - what I believe it is. Ok, I’m someone who stammered for 28-30 years and I experienced everything people on here experienced. Now it doesn’t show up in my life too much at all. I am much...

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postr/StutterJan 13, 2024
10 points

How to make people more at ease around you despite the stutter👇

How to make people more at ease around you despite the stutter👇 Most new people we meet have never met anyone with a stutter before so you cant blame them for how they act. They're not assholes (well...

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commentr/StutterJan 12, 2024
3 points

Probably early 20s, but that's about when I became 100% self sufficient with a decent paying job and stuff like that as well. I probably just got alot more confident about life then...

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commentr/StutterJan 12, 2024
1 points

It’s situationally where your stutter gets worse. Was my story too, till I found a weird way to start beating my stutter. It takes time, and a radical mindset shift to do what others say is impossibl...

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commentr/StutterJan 12, 2024
1 points

Congratulations on your progress! I'd still argue that you started performing those actions because you decided to face your fears (instead of running away from it). THAT is the mindset shift I was ...

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commentr/StutterJan 12, 2024
2 points

Proud of you! This is the best way to be and I hope a lot of people of this sub see your post and try think the same way. It’s a shame the interviewer was basing everything around your stutter but as ...

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