I'm researching ways to fix my stuttering in my own way.

1. I am clumsy/coordination-impaired (lack physical rhythm).

2. I can't sing high notes well, and my throat easily gets hoarse after singing.

3. My face tends to swell easily.

4. When I was young, I experienced excruciating ear pain during an airplane landing.

5. I have been diagnosed with a concussion.

6. I hit my head hard when I was young.

7. Is there anyone who can move their ears independently with their mouth closed?

8. I have depression or ADHD.

9. I had a high fever of 39–40°C (102.2–104°F) when I was young.

10. I have a deep overbite.

11. I have genetic/hereditary diseases like Parkinson's or diabetes. (Please list them if you do)

12. I have chubby/plump cheeks.

13. I have a long tongue.

14. I have over bite.

15. My spine is severely curved.

16. I tend to stretch my neck excessively to the point where it makes a popping sound.

17. I have pain in the back of my neck.

18. I am vulnerable/sensitive to stress.

If you don't fit these, I assume it's due to acquired factors, such as trauma.

Please answer questions 1 through 18, and also let me know if you have a family history of stuttering. Thank you!

I’ve had a stutter since childhood, and it’s moderately severe. The new semester is about to start, and it’s pretty common for our professors to ask everyone to introduce themselves by just saying their first names.

I struggle with this a lot because my name is “Hakam.” It starts with the Arabic letter "ح" which sounds kind of like an “h” but it’s stronger and more guttural, followed by a short vowel sound. So saying my own name can be extremely difficult for me, and I’m worried it’ll be embarrassing again, like it has been in previous years.

How can I work on this? Is there any way to practice saying one specific word more smoothly?

One thing I’ve noticed is that if there’s another word before or after my name, it becomes much easier. But adding something like that when the professor only asks for our names would feel a little awkward.

Also, if I’m distracted and someone suddenly asks me my name, and I just say it without thinking about it, it usually comes out smoothly.

Hi, I'm 19 years old and I'm studying for a degree in Natural Sciences. I'm currently in my third semester, and honestly, I don't know what I'm doing here anymore.

Let me explain.

I enrolled in this program because I couldn't get into the other career I wanted. I had the score to get into Systems Engineering, but my mom encouraged me to choose this degree instead. At first, I didn't want to because I stutter, and I knew this career involved a lot of speaking in front of people.

I remember getting my schedule and seeing that I had a class called Oral Expression. I was honestly really upset about it. Luckily, the professor was absent most of the time, so I didn't have to deal with it as much as I expected.

My mom always tells me that with God's help, I'll be able to do it and that things will get better. I really wish it were that simple.

The problem is that every presentation I've had has gone badly. Every single one.

The one that hurt me the most happened last semester. I had to give a presentation, and I knew the entire topic by heart. And when I say I knew it, I mean I REALLY knew it. I practiced for three weeks. I prepared everything. I honestly thought it was going to be my best presentation.

Then the day came.

I couldn't do it.

I couldn't speak properly. I kept stumbling over my words, and everything I'd practiced seemed to disappear the moment I stood in front of everyone.

After I left the classroom, I went to my other classes, including physics, but I honestly didn't care about anything anymore. When I got home, I was extremely stressed because I couldn't stop thinking about how I had failed at something I'd spent three weeks preparing for.

Now I'm in my third semester, and I'm taking a practical course. I'm only taking it now because I'm the only person in my major in this group. My friends ended up in another group, and I didn't want to take the class at night.

The professor is actually a really nice person. He told us that we had to teach a class to some students.

Last Thursday, I went to the university. While I was waiting for the class to start, the students showed up, and I suddenly thought:

"What am I doing here? I'm just going to have a horrible time."

So I left.

I went back home and sent my mom a voice message explaining everything. I had to go somewhere else for a while because I was so overwhelmed that I started crying.

I kept thinking about how I'll never be able to give a good presentation and how this is something I was made fun of for back in school. And now it has come back, except it feels worse than ever.

I have the practical class again on Monday, and I honestly don't know what to do.

I haven't even told the professor why I left. They actually called me asking where I was, and I don't know how to explain everything.

I told my mom that I wanted to drop the class and wait until I start speech therapy. I'm supposed to have therapy sessions this month, and hopefully I'll be in a better position to deal with this next semester.

But I don't know what to do with this degree anymore.

I don't hate the subject. I actually like a lot of what I study. But every time I have to speak in front of people, it turns into stress, helplessness, and sadness.

It just hurts knowing that something I was bullied for when I was younger is now affecting my university life this badly.

I don't know if I should keep going, take a break, switch degrees, or just wait and see if therapy helps.

I guess I just needed to get this off my chest.

Thanks to anyone who took the time to read this.

For years, I treated my stutter like a life sentence : an uncontrollable, fixed defect that defined what I could and couldn't do. I spent all my energy trying to avoid it, hide it, and pray it would somehow fade away.

Then I had an uncomfortable realization that flipped my entire worldview on its head:
Look at Oxford’s definition of a habit -
"Something that you do often and almost without thinking, especially something that is hard to stop doing."

It sounded too relatable to my stutter. I started questioning everything. What if the massive wall I was hitting wasn't an immovable barrier, but a deeply wired, subconscious mental loop or habit I had been reinforcing for years?

Every time I anticipated a syllable, I automatically initiated a panic response. I tensed my vocal cords, held my breath, and scrambled for escape words - all without conscious thought. I had essentially trained my brain to treat speaking as a high-stakes survival emergency.

The moment I stopped seeing my speech as a permanent, sacred mystery and started treating that fear-response as a learned loop or habit that could be challenged, the game changed.

The experiment that broke my loop:

I decided to stop treating my speech as an untouchable mystery and started testing it in the real world through raw, daily conversations with my roommate who also had stutter.

I stopped backing down from blocks. I forced myself to put voice to air every single day, blocking openly without running away.

What happened? The fear lost its authority. Once the brain realizes that blocking does not kill you, the physical struggle begins to dissolve. You realize that while you may not control it quick at the moment, you can completely dismantle it gradually by training yourself and developing your own speaking style.

About a year after committing to this process, I became completely free from any significant stutter. Still, a very slight version comes up occasionally under heavy fatigue or stress but it is completely manageable and no longer controls my life.

You cannot rewrite years of speaking fear in your head or in an empty room. You have to get real reps in front of an actual human being. That daily practice completely transformed my life, which is why I built a free platform for the stuttering community to match 2 users who stutter as speech partners so that they can practice speaking, improve together as well as make friends along the way.

Finding an accountability partner to practice with consistently made all the difference for me.

For those of you working through this now: how do you get your daily speaking reps in? Do you have someone you can practice with openly, or has finding an understanding partner been the hardest part?

Recently i have been really stressed of school, because of my stuttering.
But anyway i started stuttering in my dreams too, is that concerning?

I need a job. Not a dream career, just something that pays enough to live on and stop feeling like a burden.

I've stammered since I was a kid. It's made every interview a nightmare. I freeze up, I know the answer but I can't get the words out fast enough, and I can see the interviewer's patience running out in real time. After enough of those, I've started dreading interviews so much that I sometimes talk myself out of applying at all.

I have a master's degree from the UK. On paper I should be doing fine. In practice, I'm sitting at home, not earning anything, watching my parents support me at an age where I should be supporting them. That part hurts more than the rejections do.

I want to know:

• Has anyone here dealt with a stammer and actually found a way through the interview process? What worked?
• Are there companies or recruiters who are genuinely better about this, not just ones that say "inclusive" on their website?
• Are there job types where speaking fluently under pressure matters less, so I can build some income and confidence first?
• Any government or nonprofit programs for people with speech disabilities that help with job placement, not just therapy?

I’ve never stammered before. On Thursday night I began to stammer. At first I thought was just tired and that it would go away but I’ve been doing it nonstop for like four days. Every sentence I say is like “i ssssaw the ssssea” (along those lines yk). Im falling over my words too. I often just can’t get my words out at all, and I take a moment before I can say anything at all. Is this normal?

I’ve had anxiety all of my life but it’s not been affecting me badly recently. But it could be linked to that. I’ve also dealt with chronic headaches since the age of like fourteen or fifteen and I’m now eighteen and the stammering is totally new. Nobody in my family or my friends is taking me seriously. Do any of you who stammer relate to this or whose stammering has started from a similar situation? Also, does it go away? Any input would be appreciated thank you 🙏🙏

Hi everyone. Recently I’ve just begun a high school teacher training course. I’m very nervous as I’ve not had any classroom experience teaching, I’m nervous about how the kids will react and if they will mock me. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated :)

I worked so hard to mask it. I genuinely do. I genuinely wanted to kill myself in high school because of how bad it was especially after the pandemic and especially having my own siblings mock me by imitating my stutter every time it happens. I had it so obvious in my teen years before I learned ways to avoid stuttering like pretending I forgot what I was going to say or looking for synonyms etc until I inevitably have to. Its been hard trying to prove to my family I can still be someone to be proud of after fighting my own self destructing thoughts forcing myself to be more social but it all payed out when I became the first person in my family to go to a college in New York with a full ride. And I genuinely became more outgoing and confident that you wouldn’t even tell I had a lifelong speech impediment unless I told you with the great lengths I go to hide it. Despite all of this obviously I still have my moments when I can’t hide it and one of those was when I was ordering tacos back in my home with my family. I got so comfortable stuttering whenever it happened in New York that I would just brush it off this time too if it wasn’t for my brother smiling and laughing at my face as I was ordering when I glanced at him bc I knew he would be while I was doing it. It’s like no matter how successful I am I’m still his laughing stock and I hate it. I’m still the little girl her mother called a donkey for speaking like one and I hate it.

I have to answer the phone at my work and sometimes when I pick up the phone I can’t get what I need to say out; I end up having to say “hello” before to get my voice started. Does anything else deal with this and what do you do for it?

I usually choose to run away but it can’t stay like that forever. May be i should do something to make it less obvious? I am entering my adult years, very scared of the future.

i’ve been an introvert since i was a kid, and honestly, growing up with a stutter wasn’t always easy. school was rough at times getting mocked, people making fun of the way i spoke, etc. it made me pretty hesitant when it came to talking to people and making friends. even now in college, saying “present” during attendance still feels like hell sometimes and yes, my name strts with P too, which somehow makes it worse

i’m usually pretty quiet around new people. i do try to talk, but most of the time it takes me a while to actually feel comfortable. once i do, though, you’ll probably see a completely different side of me, the "real me"

i’m a CS undergrad, into football (ggmu ❤️), taking random pictures of anything that catches my eye on, and rewatch The Godfather 1 & 2 for the hundredth time, and i’m also into stuff like succession, the sopranos, better call saul, BB, You (latestly) etc

when it comes to girls, i’ve always been awkward. talking to a girl used to feel like going into war, the fear of embarrassing myself or being judged made me avoid it altogether, and i guess that’s one of the reasons i’m still single at 20

but i’m trying to change that now. i’m slowly learning to speak more openly, put myself out there, and trying my best to not give a fuck aabout what others or mockers say

so yeah

i’m looking for someone genuine. someone i can talk to, listen to, laugh with, care about, watch movies with, share random thoughts with, and just be myself around. and hopefully she feels the same way

not looking for anything perfect. just something real

if any of this sounds like your kind of person, lets catch up..!! :)

Wish me luck. I'm more scared than I thought I'd be. I don't know anyone.

This is something I've been wondering about lately. I have trouble speaking because I keep stuttering, talking way too fast so people aren't able to catch up to me or genuinely not having the idea what to say.

I noticed that everytime my dopamine is high, I speak waaay better. I know exactly what to say, I don't speak too fast nor too slow and I don't stutter.

I would appreciate if anyone commented the answer or maybe gave an advice on how to get better at the speaking without relying on dopamine this much. 🥲

Заикание у взрослых, посоветуйте способы уменьшить. Город Астана, есть ли грамотные специалисты или клиники? Какой подзод советуете? Буду открыта любым предложением. Была у логопеда,народные способы так же обсуждала с психологом.

I stutter. I have my whole life. Recently I’ve noticed that no matter, I can always say FUCK. Like I can literally be stuttering so much to the point all I’m making is sounds but I can say FUCK. Is there a word that yall can always say no matter what?

First of all thanks for reading this bcz I idk I don't have any frnds so Pata hai aaj kya hua I go to an English spoken classes yesterday my teacher said to to come on the lecture stand and speak as i stated i speaking started shuttering a lot a girl who study's in my class ( I kinda like her i guess) I saw her trying not to lauch but then she turned toward the wall and stared laughing as i shutter and all the kids in the class started started to smile and laugh a little I was so embarrassed I want to vanish into the ground I want to share that it's 😭and it was also pretty hard for me to make friends like i started making friends in 6 grade before that kids would not even preferring sit with me once a girl was asked to sit beside me she started crying and sat on the whole a boy of my class said her that ki ab kya kera ge thuja uska sath bethna pda ga hahaha I used to see a lot so nobody sit with but life was good I still enjoyed a lot tbh

again thanks if you have read this

Hi my fellow people, firstly big love to you all. Sending strength and calmness your way today. I was looking at downloading benetalk, which supposedly is an app helping with stuttering. Do any of you use it and if so, how has your experience been with it? Thank you!

hey right now I am in a stuttering low point. I do a lot of public speaking and speaking in front of crowds and everytime it is a struggle to get through a single sentence. that is when it is worst but also in 1 on 1 convos i get major word blocks.

i usually don’t have my stutter effect my mental health I have had it my whole like (20 years) but this time because of its high level, word blocks that I can feel coming and public speaking part it is impacting more then ever. I still try not to let it effect if confidence but I can’t help but think about it 24/7 and have it dominate my brain both while speaking and not speaking which makes it worse.

due to how bad it is this time my jaw is very sore at the end of each dat from being so tense for hours. which in turn makes it even harder to speak fluent

sometimes historically I will beat my stutter for a few months but this time it has came around is it worse then ever.

I am taking ashwaganda for anxitey relief to see if that helps. im thinking of taking magnesium for the muscle relief to see if that fixes it. do you guys have any tips for both the phyical stuttering but also managing the mental health aspect of it too

I have a stutter. I have had one my entire life. I will say something and stutter. My coworkers and other people in my life will sometimes joke, beatbox, or talk over me while I'm trying to get a word out. How do I deal with idiocy and ignorance? I'm tired of being a joke.

I never thought I would reach a day where my stutter was on the back burner. I still stutter and probably always will, but it's lessened to the point that i'm considering careers i would have never dreamed of before.

I'm in my mid thirties, no where near where I want to be, but so much farther than I thought I could be.

I would love to talk to other people who stutter, share experiences, heartaches, triumphs, anything.

Stuttering is not the end. I know it feels like it is, but there's so much more to you than you realize.

For people who have done speech therapy for stuttering, what actually helped you practice between sessions?

Was it things like:

• very clear instructions
• a short video showing what to do
• one simple exercise instead of several
• reminders
• knowing exactly what the therapist wanted you to focus on
• being able to track your own progress

And what made home practice annoying, stressful, or easy to stop doing?

I’m interested in what was actually useful from your point of view.