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Yea dude it sucks cuz very few people understand us. Many of the hardships we go through most people will not experience to the degree that we have. People are attracted to positivity and repulsed my ...
Just keep telling yourself that people's thoughts and opinions aren't worth shit. Their thoughts are no more valuable than that of an ant....
Today was a bad day...
Today was a bad day... It was pretty bad today for me. Nothing out of the ordinary schedule, had quite a few points to make in class (in grad school atm) and stuttered through the lot of it. Repeated ...
Try going on job interviews for jobs you have absolutely no interest in accepting, for two reasons. First of all, you'll get practice in speaking in that type of environment which can help if you go ...
I texted someone about my social anxiety from stuttering and how people who just stop talking to me makes me feel shitty, but the person took it the wrong way, so not alot of people don't get it or a...
mine is hit or miss. Granted more miss that hit. But there are interviews(both in person and phone) where I am just in a flow "zone". Every word is fluent. Confidence is soaring. Then there are others...
Job applications and Interviews
Job applications and Interviews Anyone else experience anxiety about applying for jobs and the whole interview process? I'm bad at answering the phone, get nerves talking to new people and that's grea...
Does anybody use a DAF device and have success with it?
Does anybody use a DAF device and have success with it? Before I get started here, let me just say that I'm new to this subreddit and BOY am I glad I discovered it! I don't have any family, friends or...
Same thing with me bro. Maybe it's pure anxiety or pure mechanical failure or a mixture of both (most likely)....
http://www.theravive.com/therapedia/Childhood--Onset-Fluency-Disorder-(Stuttering)-DSM--5-315.35-(F80.81) And I mean the psychological things that stuttering causes like anxiety, shame, depression, b...
How old are you? My experience is that the young crowd just wants to have fun and party and not deal wih heavy stuff like this....
Do you think people understand the "iceberg" of stuttering?
Do you think people understand the "iceberg" of stuttering? I just texted someone from a group of people I thought were my friends, but stopped talking to me this year. I told the person how I felt a...
Answering the phone
Answering the phone I never had any difficulty answering the phone up until a year ago. I now find it incredibly hard to say "hello" so whenever my phone rings I get terrible anxiety. The only way I ...
I DEEPLY fear situations where i need to meet new people because of this. Whenever a receptionist asks me my name i always simply spell it out instead of saying it. My name also begins with an 'A' and...
No, I don't think so. However; let's be real here. You might be teased, and ignorant people might think that you're unintelligent; you have to show them otherwise....
Yeah when I was 14. They got me to play with lego... fucking ridiculous. I stopped and last year decided to try psychotherapy which was amazing. I learnt a lot about the mind but it was costing me £7...
Need to vent, it's so frustrating when people don't understand.
Need to vent, it's so frustrating when people don't understand. My stuttering isn't that bad the past couple months because of speech therapy, but it still fucking sucks. Social anxiety and tension f...
Had a job interview 3 weeks ago. The job was my dream job, so i was very nervous and it was just my 2nd interview in my hole life. So not very experienced in this situation. I am german and it was a ...
Hey! Native English speaker here. When I started learning German I became aware that I didn't stutter, or if anything it was a lot, LOT less. I think this boiled down to the fact that my mind wasn't ...
That happens to me too. I think practice and getting more used to these kinds of situations can really help. That can mean going on for interviews (even for jobs you aren't super interested in), or if...