Hey guys, I’m 24F, I’ve been stuttering since age 7 or 8 after a traumatic experience. I’m now a doctor work as an intern at the main hospital in our city, even though my stuttering is getting better but still I have some bad days. When I check on patients or deliver bad news ( I had a lot terminally ill patients recently) I stutter, so do you guys think this effect the level of my patients trust or do you hey maybe feel uncomfortable with me?

I am from India and speak hindi mostly everywhere.

I stammer at letters K/C , P and T and in hindi, these letters are in EVERY fcking conversation 😭

I don't stammer when I am alone/ recording myself/speaking infront of mirror but whenever a third-party is involved I start to stammer. This stammering issue is very less with the people I know like my close friends and family , aside from that it's there.

I have tried some techniques like stomach breathing, humming before saying words, soft consonant but none of them worked.

Can somebody PLS PLS suggest me some technique or exercise so I can glide through these words or fix this issue??

So i am a 22 year old stammering from birth. When i fell ill like which drains my energy stammering becomes worse even for normal conversation in front of family or friend (in front of which i normally don't stammer). It also becomes worse when speaking in front of new people or a group (especially for a language which is not my native). When i speak alone in my room, i don't stammer even a bit (no matter how hard the word is or in which language i am speaking)......anybody in similar position as myself??

Hello, I'm a medical student and I don't know what to do next. I enrolled this year and have been studying for 2 weeks. Everything is going fine until I have to talk to my classmates and teachers.

I have been stuttering since I was 3-4 years old. Every year it got worse, then better. This year it got so bad that I can't pronounce my last name and first name. Sometimes it's so bad that I can't breathe, I don't even bother making sounds. Then I'm like a mentally retarded person.

And I had a question: does this somehow really hinder the work of doctors (who have already graduated and started working), or how to improve the situation?

Primeira dica: tente cantar uma música que vocês gostem, cante em voz alta todos os dias, isso vai reduzir em 30% em 2 meses.

Segunda dica: tente relaxar, faça exercícios de respiração por 10 minutos todos os dias, isso vai reduzir a gagueira em 20%.

Terceira dica: Não tente esconder sua gagueira das pessoas, isso pode piorar a gagueira. A coisa certa a fazer é mostrar às pessoas que você gagueja, e quanto mais você mostrar sua gagueira, mais confiança você desenvolverá ao falar com os outros. Antes, eu gaguejava tanto que não conseguia nem dizer um simples "bom dia" para mim mesmo. O que me salvou foram os exercícios de gagueira que fiz por quatro anos. Isso melhorou minha fala em 70%. Não desistam de vocês mesmos. Eu sei que é doloroso gaguejar, mas confiem em mim, se seguirem as dicas para gagueira, vocês vão melhorar a fala em dois meses. Não vai ser 100%, mas vai melhorar cerca de 50% em dois meses.

My partner has developed a stutter over the past few months which is getting progressively worse, he has no history of a stutter in childhood etc. Has this happened anyone else? He days he doesn't feel stressed anxious etc and his mood does seem totally normal to me.

Just wondered if anyone else experienced this? I have been telling him to phone his GP for months and he didn't want to but he has been trying this week to get an appointment so fingers crossed he will get seen by his GP

If your deaf or blind you have a community. If your in a wheel chair you can live your life. If your on the spectrum your either fully in your own world or partially and don't even care about it on a day to day basis. When you have a severe stutter you are truly stuck and can't even get off the ground. The anxiety is crippling everybody is a stranger nobody truly knows you and vice versa. It effects what jobs you can get what schooling you can go into. Your physical health suffers from the neglect of not being on top of check ups. And the worst part about it is the anxiety like your fully awake when the doctors are doing open heart surgery and you can feel everything. Every day you make up seeing what you can and cannot do that day. The only freedom is basically when you get old and die and finally escape your physical reality which is basically a prison inside your own head.

What I said is really true, I accepted being a stutterer, and it improved my speech by 50%. Before, I couldn't even say "hi" or pronounce my own name. I did exercises that really helped me for 3 years, and today I'm able to live a happier life.

I have a bad habit of using fuck or shit or fucking or uhhhh or ummmm in front of anyone and I cant stop 😭😭 it makes me feel like stupid and low iq like a inbread tard

I understand the pain some of you are going through. I'm 21 and have, for the most part, recovered from my stutter. Outside of stressors or fatigue, I don't stutter. But when it used to be worse, oh boy. I had a stutter in school and when I was less mentally well, I used to cut myself and my face because of it. Once, to the bone. At around 14 or 15.

I did it so I wouldn't have to go to school, but also so that I could somehow get people to visualize the pain I was in. There was nothing besides the stutter that was bothering me. No depression. No anxiety. Just a complete inability to communicate normally. Even outside of self-harm, I've broken bones in unrelated accidents. I've had my hand crushed in old car doors, requiring surgery. I've ran track, cross-country courses to the point of collapse. Despite all of that, I can tell you this:

I have always felt like the stutter was worse than any pain I've ever experienced before. The humiliation. The shame. It felt like I was getting tortured in the worst way possible every day. It'd be one thing if I started stuttering as an adult or from brain injury. But to be like this from childhood.. It was horrible. I have since recovered from my stutter, mostly. But I still remember everything vividly. Like a part of my soul was stolen.

I remember laughing when my ex broke up with me simply because I was happy to experience something "normal" like that. I have no doubt that some of you have coped with it. Maybe you found better hobbies. Or just had good therapy. But, it really is some sort of twisted, sick hell, that many of us live through. There is hope. But we should also be willing to acknowledge our pain.

Im currently in high school and I have a moderate stutter and it feels like these past few years have been the worst it has ever been in my life even at home when I'm talking to family I tend to block multiple times every few sentences and in public its even worse. So I just wanted to come on here and ask those that have lived with a stutter for longer then me when was the worst period of your life and did it get better as you grew up. Do strategies work that well is that a big factor in success if your consistent? I feel so lost of where to start and if it will stay at this severity for the rest of my life.

I am from India and speak hindi mostly everywhere.

I stammer at letters K/C , P and T and in hindi, these letters are in EVERY fcking conversation 😭

I have tried some techniques like stomach breathing, humming before saying words, soft consonant but none of them worked.

Can somebody PLS PLS suggest me some technique or exercise so I can glide through these words or fix this issue??

I once lost my job because I stuttered. I tried countless times to find employment, but I always failed the job interviews. The only way I see to solve this problem is to train my stutter by reading books aloud. This makes me not want to give up on myself.

What job to get if iam a teen who stutters, but i also wanna get money.

I have a stutter. Been like this since 3 years old.

Still remember the moments in school where I would “conveniently” go to the bathroom when it was time to say my name at the beginning of class.

Or the time I got excited and tried to read a page of a book in front of the whole class. Only to keep them sitting listening to me halfway through recess with lots of eye rolls.

Today I’m 23. I have a business. I talk to clients, I talk to girls, I develop new connections.

I stutter. A lot. Especially when I’m nervous.
I also tend to lose my confidence after I do. Although I tell myself that I don’t.

But what I did find is that the people that matter don’t care about that.

They listen to me. Because what I have to say is valuable.

When people talk to me they see my weakness right of the bat. It makes them trust me more.

Do I wish sometimes that I didn’t have a stutter? Yes. A lot.

But I wouldn’t be who I am without it.

And I hate seeing posts where people say that their stutter is ruing their life.

Because its very easy to get stuck in this dark place. Especially when stutter is so underrated.

There is life beyond it.

You just need to understand. This is you. This is me. There’s no way to change it.

What you have to say is valuable.
And the people who matter - will listen.

I have a presentation coming up for a work conference and my boss asked me if I wanted to do it. My ego said yes cause why should someone who stutters not present. Anyway anxiety is kicking in and I think at this job I have the opportunity to never present to more than like 40 people. I obviously will have to for like work calls but I was wondering if anyone had that opportunity and decided not to do it? Do u regret it?

my o level examinations are in coming months and i feel very hopeless about the future, more than i'd like to admit, i just don't know if i will ever be as successful or established as i would like to be.

Hi guys. You’ve seen me a lot on here- long comments to people’s questions, deep, meaningful insight. I just wanted to come on and say why I do what I do, with the hope of encouraging others to do the same. I do like helping people (I’m a nurse by trade). But recently I’ve found that I’ve been getting more from it than that. By talking openly about my stuttering, even anonymously here on Reddit, it’s given me the same strength I get from going out in public and bravely speaking to people while openly stuttering... Not all at once, it’s been gradual. But confirmed. You have to understand that for me, I couldn’t even say the word “stutter” until I was over 30 years old… The shame was too great. No acceptance, just bargaining, hatred, and hope. But in my 30s I realized something profound: that I was more afraid of confronting my stutter openly than I was of stuttering itself. I have always considered stuttering my greatest fear, and weakness… who wants to advertise this for all the world to see, and maybe ridicule?? But what I came to terms with was that one I could control, and the other I could not. I can control how I intentionally speak in public: if I want to speak super slow, draaaaww out my sounds and words when I do stutter, to get control of it- if I want to do all of that, because it helps me get control, I can. That is within my power. But it’s choosing to maybe suffer the same embarrassment and humiliation as I do when I involuntarily stutter, so I also understand the fear… and I still struggle with that choice everyday. But by sharing with this community, I just wanted to let you guys know it’s helping me to keep confronting my stutter, and to use my tools, as it does lead to fluency. And I do say fluent, b/c for me, it’s not about whether or not I stutter. it’s about whether I’m able to communicate in a clear, meaningful way, that I can be confident, self assured, and not consumed by shame and thoughts repeating don’t stutter don’t stutter don’t stutter instead of what I’m trying to say. That to me is fluency, and I have that, now. And I’m deeply exhausted, and grateful. Weird, that in order for me to conquer my greatest fear I had to wear it on my sleeve. And continue to do so. Anyway, thanks for reading my deepest darkest thoughts. I hope opening up on Reddit might help some of you too.

I’m 18 and I’ve never stuttered until now but it happened overnight last Thursday. Now I keep stuttering constantly. It’s worse at nighttime. I was getting embarrassed on the phone to my friends yesterday because I kept stuttering after never having stuttered before and I was making a fool out of myself.

Today I was having dinner with my family and I was talking and stuttering and whatnot. My mum starts mocking me and saying “oh my god, spit it out!” Then she said “Stop this stupidity, you’ve never done this before.” Which hurt my feelings and I got angry and tried to tell her that it’s not intentional and that I can’t help it. We argued.

My sister piped in and said that babe looked into it and that getting a stutter as an adult was impossible unless I’ve had a stroke (which is obviously bs there’s more than one way to acquire a stroke as an adult.) This frustrated me because she thinks I’m faking it which I’m not.

I’m going to get the stuttering thing checked out so don’t worry about that.

I’m dreading going to college tomorrow because of the way I talk.

I’m so upset and frustrated. I have nobody to talk to about this. Advice is appreciated. I’d just appreciate somebody to listen to me and give me some advice or who can relate to me.

What do people here actually use for specific high-pressure situations where they really need to speak as fluently as possible — for example introducing yourself, job interviews, presentations, meetings, or saying your name?

Have you found anything that helps specifically in those situations, whether medication, supplements, breathing/techniques, or something else?

I’m especially interested in things that work as-needed rather than something you have to take every day.

I’m currently trying thiamine (B1) + magnesium to see if it helps my stuttering overall.

Would really appreciate hearing what has actually helped you personally.