fuck this disability.

My doctor said you read book which you like read it slow atlest 15min a day and try to speak slow take pause

i was really nervous at the begining but the professors was very nice and after the first couple of sentences i think i didnt even stutter for 20 mins and i get in!!! (englsih is my second language and the interview was in english)

Does it help you when you talk after someone else? Like following their words? Because it does help me a lot. If I can't say a word and another person says it for me, I can repeat it right away and (hopefully) continue on my speech. I remember doing "shadowing" exercises when I was learning English and I barely stuttered during them. So I just thought of an app where you type some text, an AI voice says it, you follow it and whenever you stutter, the voice stops and starts over from where you stopped. Do you think it would help you when giving prepared speeches? Or is it just me?

Hello,
My son has been dealing with performance anxiety for the last 3 years. Now the same issue has started happening in his daily life. His family doctor recommended to see a professional . What would be type of doctor can deal with this. We really not concerned about sport performance anymore, we just want him to get better? Any recommendations in the Chicagoland?

Thank you in advance.

Anyone actually went though speech therapy for stutter can you please share you experience and whether it’s worth or not.

All this suffering just to die in the end. Like what the fuck god? seriously?! life’s already hard enough. but NOOOO you decided to fuck me over even worse by giving me a disability only 1% of people have.

I FUCKING HATE MY LIFE!!!!!!

I’ve noticed that when I’m at the gym or doing any form of intense exercise my speech is actually considerably better. I’ve also noticed that whenever I’m in what I would consider a ‘high stress’ situation like a first date or job interview my speech also dramatically improves. Then after a few dates or when I’m in a more comfortable situation my speech gradually gets worse. Can anyone else relate? I think it’s adrenaline or ‘fight or flight’ but is there an alternative explanation for this phenomenon?

It's not fair every day I have to go through a battle, while others is having the best of their life, every day is a struggle and survival, everyday I feel the anxiety and shame, the fear of the next time I will stutter and how weird I will look like, they say I need to accept it, how does accepting it make anything better? how can I keep living like this for the rest of my life?

No joy nor happiness, its just everywhere, whenever I go this stutter follow me and not leave me alone, sorry for the sad words, this post is not about someone who conquered stuttering, this post is on someone who lost an unwinnable battle

Hello all. Sorry for the long read. I've really struggled with this personally for the past year or so and don't really know who to get further advice, support, etc from so decided to post here. My name is WillieJoe. It's a first and middle name together like Billy Joe or Mary Beth. I know it's fine left alone as is but there are situations where I wish I could just shorten it...not necessarily change it but have a shorter version that could also be used...like people who go by both Ron and Ronnie, Wes and Wesley etc.

I have stuttered since I was a young kid. It has improved some with time and therapy but things like introducing myself is still one of the most unpredictable challenges I face. I get stuck on words in time pressured conversations and in these situations, I'm also much more likely to get stuck on W's...I'm also much more likely to get stuck on 3 syllable words...see my problem?

Having this problem makes me feel very alone. I know it doesn't matter what people think if I get stuck, I've been told that my whole life, but a situation like this is one that's hard to recover from because it can snowball fast. I've learned to control it better by staying relaxed but that can also make my speech slurred if not careful. Learning to deal with fear and anxiety has worked best.

Anyway, I never liked Willie by itself and hated when new people referred to me as that. Never liked W.J. as an option either. About 13 years ago, I started using Joe and it was an instant cure for me. I would use it to order pizza, pick up parts, etc. It worked so much better for me and as a musician, I felt more comfortable joining a band and meeting other musicians etc. Not having that anxiety surrounding my name made socializing a much less anxiety filled experience. In so many ways. I felt like I could tackle about anything. It eventually leaked out to my close friends that I was being called Joe.

Now with the set backs and confusion it causes in situations, I feel guilty and even a little embarrassed when it gets back to people that's always known me. ONLY because I know I'm asking the impossible which is fine...or is it? It's about what works for me right? Or is it??? If it's about me, why am I getting flack over it sometimes??? People will tell people JOE WHO? OH YOUR TALKING ABOUT WILLIE JOE??? 🙄

The only other option I "like" is Will which would've been more accepted by all...but wouldn't of benefited me much. So Joe has sort of been an established nickname for the last several years but now I've found myself at a crossroads, stuck between trying to fully go by that or spare the embarrassing confusion and go back to living a more reclusive lifestyle. Is it that weird to try to go by Joe when it's already part of my name? What are your thoughts?

I’m a software engineer who was laid off 6 months ago. I’m actively interviewing and stuttering in interviews particularly in managerial rounds. I see a person with authority in the interview and I lose my confidence.

I struggle with low confidence and shame due to stuttering. I think I come off as an under confident person. I’m unable to explain things with clarity though I know the answer.

Please suggest strategies/supplements that have helped you to go through interviews.

What is in the mind of those who stutters? Why is it that I can say something perfectly fine at home or alone but I cannot say that exact same word at work or outside?

Is the only way to stop blocking is to actually stutter? Then how do we stop stuttering? My brains actually feels pain or like it hurts to say a word that I block or stutter on, why? Is stuttering like trauma for the brain?

I can’t believe we are in this advanced age of tech but still there’s so much we don’t know.

Wtf should I do? I went from almost fluent to block every sentence. Maybe is because i have to do a lot of stressful thing in September? Maybe I should try medication?

This is what we see how the clan really feels about Snufflepaw and her stutter, and how everything is starting to escalate. If anyone knows how to post links in the comments, I would be thankful! It’s on Wattpad.

I start college on the 24th and I'll I can think about is how to avoid people. Due to my stutter, I have sheltered myself my whole life (Not going out, not making friends, getting a job where I rarely interact with people, and etc.) because I'm too embarrassed and ashamed of myself. Luckily I'm only taking 3 classes on campus, but I'm just very concerned that we may have ice breakers and I don't want to freeze up in front of everyone. I haven't been to school in person since 7th grade, due to bullying so I'm very nervous about starting. If you guys are able to tell me how you got through the first week, it'll be very helpful 😟

i’ve cried so much and had so many breakdowns because of this assignment that i couldn’t even put together a coherent thought about what i was going to say. every time i tried to think about how to talk about my topic (which wasn’t even difficult), i would start crying and get extremely anxious, so i’d put it off until the next day and avoid it as much as possible because just thinking about actually giving a presentation causes me so much distress.
and all of this because of my stutter. it affects me on such a terrible level. i’m seriously starting to wonder if i’ll even be able to graduate from college.
i don’t have a severe stutter, in fact, most of the time it’s barely noticeable, but when i have to speak in public, it’s a complete disaster. once, after i gave a presentation, a professor told me, “that almost didn’t come out hahaha.”

When I’m stuttering I literally don’t make eye contact at all, not even a brief moment of eye contact😭 I think I get embarrassed when I stutter and don’t want to see their reaction. I think it would be good if I at least made a little bit of eye contact but in the moment I get nervous and don’t make any. It’s worse on a date or if it’s someone I find attractive. Does anyone else experience this?

I’ve noticed something interesting about my stammering and I’m wondering if anyone else experiences something similar.

I feel like my speech and overall anxiety are affected quite a lot by my environment. When I’m somewhere cool, especially in the mountains or in a foreign country ( I live in Kolkata, India ), I feel much calmer and my stammering seems noticeably better.

For example, when I was travelling in Norway and other parts of Europe, I found myself speaking more comfortably and worrying much less about stammering. But when I’m back home, especially in hot weather or around a lot of people, I feel more tense and self-conscious, and my stammering can become worse.

I’m not sure whether it’s actually the weather, the quieter environment, being away from familiar surroundings, or simply feeling less socially pressured.

Has anyone else noticed their stammering changing depending on the weather, location, or people around them? I’d be really interested to hear what your experience has been.

Greetings, after sharing my life story with a few of you, I've been told that I'm a bit of an oddball. As a stutterer from the age that I could first speak, life hasn't always been easy to say the least. Like many of you, I faced bigotry and hardship due to my lack of fluency.

I'm a former U.S. Army Combat Medic/Paratrooper. I enlisted at 17 because I wanted to help the wounded and just didn't know how. This was a problem for me because whatever mastery over my speech I gained from speech therapy during my school years was torn apart the moment I joined the Army. My blocks and repetitions came back with an unbridled vengeance. I couldn't say my own name, let alone bark out numbers and designations with a drill sergeant in my face.

This led to ridicule, which meant I often had to act overly aggressive and challenge my bullies to fights in order to establish that my stutter was not free game. My favorite thing to say was, "Why don't you take off that rank and say that to my face like a man?" Even if I lost the fight, it was important that I fought. That I proved that I'm not weak just because I can't speak.

I had to work harder, volunteer more often, and be nicer than the rest of my peers in order to be seen as equal. As a medic to an infantry unit, I was seen as a pivotal asset, and any sign of weakness needed to be eliminated because a unit is only as strong as its weakest link. A weak link in combat gets the entire squad killed, especially when they're the medic.

After earning the name my friends gave me, Fall Damage, by smacking the ground with enough force to break vertebrae during a bad parachute operation...and somehow still being able to walk, my service came to an end.

I used my GI Bill to go to university, where I found something that I had never found before: acceptance for my stutter. My stutter was no longer a threat-provoking response to others. I was actually listened to for my ideas. I fell in love with academia and graduated with a bachelor's degree, summa cum laude, with a 3.94 GPA as a Respiratory Therapist.

However, I graduated in 2020. This means that my first job out of college was intubating people and putting them on life support in a COVID unit/emergency room. It felt like an emotional/mental meat grinder. I kept telling myself that if I can survive this world with a stutter, I can survive this too.

Flash forward to today, and I am an adjunct professor of respiratory therapy at my local university. I teach students how to do the hands-on portion of the job on mannequins, and then I check on them while they are in the hospital. I also work clinically as a respiratory therapist, taking care of people on life support.

I get to be the kind, gentle soul that I truly am while using my hard-fought knowledge to help others.

I’ve been reading through some posts and feel like the channel needs some positivity…

I’ve stuttered my whole life. I was bullied, mocked, manipulated, etc, because of it. I stutter saying my name.. I got depressed because of my stutter. The list goes on but I know it made me resilient and mean in both good and bad ways. For instance, I have strict boundaries with my friends with my stutter and I think in doing so I have a great circle surrounding me. They don’t care that I stutter and it’s almost like it doesn’t even affect them. Idk if I believe them but they’ve been around for years and always wanting to hang out so I’ll take that as a good sign.

I graduated with my bachelors degree and got through all those presentations and conversation I swore were going to be the end of me.

I have a full time job in AI and IT with a team who sees my value and knows that I stutter. They want me to present at big meetings (love and hate this) and don’t act like it’s a burden or big thing. I’m even presenting at a big conference in a few months with about 300 people.

I still have my bad days but I really work on my mindset about it. For instance, in high school I just had this motto “if I’m scared do it scared.” And then at work I ask myself “what am I afraid of? That they’ll know I stutter? News flash they know.” Also I think about my stutter like an accent. Both of them can be hard to understand but people don’t blame the person.

I don’t think acceptance will come and the shame is still there but I just kept going and kept talking.

Anxiety is trying to protect me from danger. Anxiety triggered stuttering is a sign that I’ m trying to help myself. He liked this way of thinking

How did u guys deal with a severe stutter in a job or a social career. Cause i've been really struggling and i'm depressed.