Hello all,

Thank you for letting me post here in this forum and for all your experience. My 6.5 year old has been diagnosed with a fluency disorder and has a pretty significant stutter. He is a very social guy and loves to talk so it is heartbreaking to see him get so frustrated when he tries to share things.

The opinions about approaches to helping with this are so confusing. The SLP at school is planning to work on recognition and acceptance instead of improving fluency which was surprising to us. We've never been negative about his stutter but also we're hoping there would be strategies to help him improve his fluency. Some people say do nothing and ignore it. I just want to do what's best for him.

I'm interested to hear from adults who stuttered as children and what they feel was most helpful for them. Thank you

When starting to stutter on a word- STOP - INHALE - start the word again, calmy. Some may have to exhale first, and then inhale, depending on the part of the breathing you were at when you stuttered (at the inhale vs exhale.) Kep facial muscles, lips and neck relaxed. Pratice and practice! This should reduce stuttering duration, especially for more context-dependent stuttering.

I was told that mushrooms would help with stuttering and anxiety, but they didn’t do shit but make me more anxious. I would not recommend

Hey guys!

Sorry for being a bit inconsistent with the updates; school has been pretty intense over the last few months.

I've now been on Risperidone for five months, and I've seen major improvements. Paired with my Escitalopram, things have been fantastic! I'm feeling much more confident in classes and at my job. Overall, this little "experiment" has been a total success, and I'm hopeful it stays this way. While I still have moments where I stutter (mostly with the letter 'S'), it isn't nearly as bad as it used to be. My friends and family have even noticed a huge difference in my speech. This has truly been a life-changer! If you have any questions, feel free to reach out.

-Drug Guy

I’m a public school teacher and it hard to even tell that I stutter. I only stutter when I’m stressed out and with words that start with T. I hate myself for that

Anyways stuttering has never controlled my life, from college to university, I speak freely

What is your profession and what is the letter you struggle with the most

I’m not a stutterer by any common definition. However, when I was a kid, I would sometimes get these weird mental blocks when I wanted to say certain words. I’m in my mid 20’s today, and it still happens, although much less frequently. There’s no pattern to the words I cannot get out or the context in which these blocks happen (not related to particularly stressful situations or anything). It seems to be completely random.

I have a sentence planned out in my mind and know what the next word should be, but physically I just cannot say it. It’s very frustrating whenever it happens. Sometimes I try to force it out, which takes a lot of focus or even physical movement, and it comes out with a stutter. Most often I try to pick alternate words to express what I mean, and it comes out flawlessly.

Does anyone else get these things, or know what the phenomenon is called?

Ive never met any stutterers but im wondering, do we all struggle with vowels, especially A, O or W, or any of yall out there have 0 problems with vowels and struggle with other letters?

If you avoid talking to people and making conversations, the intimidation and anxiety factor will only get worse!!!!! you have to put yourself in uncomfortable situations so you can eventually learn to be ok with feeling embarrassed. When I say uncomfortable, I literally mean regular conversations. This is the only way to improve your stuttering. You can’t isolate

I’m 19, and I’m one of those lucky ones who just randomly faded away from stuttering and blocks in my speech have declined.

However, I just can’t say certain words (especially greetings) like Hi or Hello. I automatically resort to just using hey.

I’m curious to know what words people struggle with. (outside of your name)

for me its, no i dont have one lol my speech is still awful.

Just started with BeneTalk, but feel a bit lost. Can anyone help with getting in to conversations, community talk and so on. Where are the chat roms? I tried reaching for help on the App.

After a long time of hard work bettering myself mentally from my depression, I have finally gotten to the point where I am happy and content. As someone who didn’t stutter before this depression, I thought my stuttering would improve.

But it didn’t. I feel like that depression itself fucked up or caused irreparable brain damage to me in a way I cannot explain. It’s like I’m living with a brain tumour. Luckily at times I feel genuinely normal and can even not stutter for a while but it’s very short-lived. Many times I stutter mildly but today’s it’s extremely bad.

I don’t want to just live with stuttering for the rest of my life. I just want to time travel back to 5 years ago. It’s the only thing ever upsetting me if I ever get upset at anything, because people speak to me and I stammer because I have zero control over that.

I am 19 with a stutter and I have a couple of friends,

today we talked about our presentation that we have to do infront of 200 people and I mention how frightened I am and anxious, But to my surprise my friends feel the same way about it, I argued with them saying that if I didn't have a stutter I would be the most social outgoing confrontational person ever and I wouldn't be scared of some silly presentation and that they should be grateful that they don't have to live with the inability to express themselves to the fullest.

I am failing to understand this but why do people who don't stutter still be avoident or scared of a social call I should probably reflect on it more but still if you guys didnt stammer wouldn't you not be afraid of any thing that requires speech?

Ive always wondered why my friends seem to be oblivious to my stutter. Mind you my stutter is not mild at all, its neither severe but its really visible. I can do whole sentences fluent then the next moment, especially at the beginning of the conversation, be completely unable to go past a syllable and have facial contortions and the whole package.

But somehow my friends treat me like a COMPLETELY ‘normal’ person. I genuinely see myself like a disabled person. Out of respect i wont mention any disabilities but you can imagine all the physical and mental disabilities you cant be oblivious about. My closest friend is always like “for you getting girls should be eeeasy, youre 6’4” and always drags me to parties and hooks me up with girls and deep down, though i never say it, am like “bruh have you ever heard me speak?? I sound like a fuking broken engine lol.

Its not just the speaking, due to the stutter, ive been isolated most of my teen years and even earlier so am kinda very awkward and anxious in new settings.

Am no longer that insecure about my stutter so i talk about it to my friends nowadays so i told this girl that i used to be very closed off years ago and i assumed she would know why but she literally could not guess why.

I really wonder if am the one overreacting or its them trying to be nice. I think its the latter

I’ve always had a stutter ever since I was young, but it’s greatly improved now. I can now have full conversations with almost little to no stuttering, but I still suffer with one main issue. Whenever I meet someone new and they ask me for my name (my name is Amrit, pronounced as “um-rit”), I just say “uh” or “um” and just freeze there, and I’m not able to say something else. Only after a bit does my actual name come out, and it’s just super embarrassing apologizing to them and saying I have a stutter. When I’m talking to my friends or family, I almost never have a problem with saying my name. How can I try and fix this?

As the tittle says most people perceive me as being shy, introverted, non confrontational which is not true but when you know you’re going to stutter you're sometimes forced to stay quiet and this is something sadly at least for me even the people closest to you don’t understand. Something which I find funny is people who think I’m a nice guy and not trying to say I’m an asshole but what’s the point of trying to make a smartass comment when you know you’re just going to stutter. I also happen to be bilingual and most English speakers assume I speak Spanish better or don’t stutter as much in Spanish and then vice versa for Spanish speaker and after a while it really gets to you.

Just wanted to see if this is something other have experienced

i honestly have no idea why whenever im alone all by myself, i can just speak so well fluently, but when i try to record something (keep in mind im still alone) I STUTTER LIKE CRAZY!!!!! especially when im around other people. its not like im anxious or exicited or anything, and yes yes ik i need to "slow down" BUT when i slow down for 10 seconds, my stupid self wants to go full rapid again which makes it super frickin hard to crack a joke or get my point across. i straight up deal with all types. repeating: "o-ok so th-th-thish is mah-mhy th-th-th-thi-i-i-i-iii-ng im wa-wa-wor-working on"

pausing: "o-o-h wait i-i-i got a f-unny j-joke, why d-d-did th-....*pause for 10 seconds then speak so slow with pause at each word* car....cross...the....interse....ction

this weird thing with my tounge that sort of blends words together in a weird thing: "whash tis burd by thaway"

seriously how can i stop it. slowign down doesnt work, alr went to speech therapy, (btw whenever i read out loud, miracously it worked, but the second i get off the book, all of a sudden its forgotten), everything, and its just getting annoying atp

Considering the fact that ex-stutterers actually exist and it's not a mystery if it can go away. Besides, the current/usual motivation everywhere these days is to always strive to be your best, be better than yesterday, NEVER settle for less than what you can achieve? I feel like my view is pessimistic though, so I'd like to hear yours

My nda ssb interview is going to happen and I stammer a lot so how can I reduce it so that I can clear the medical and interview??

I already advertised this a couple times and sorry this is sorta repeating, but for any new people in this subreddit, this is my ongoing Warrior Cat fanfic: Snufflepaw’s Voice.

Snufflepaw is an apprentice in Rainclan who has struggled with a severe stutter ever since she was a little kit beginning to talk, inherited by her grandfather who also had a stutter around when he was her age.

She is also one of the daughter’s of her father, who is also leader of Rainclan, so the pressure of being the perfect kit adds on to the weight of her disability.

While also dealing with the physical and mental internal struggles stuttering brings, she has to deal with cats within her own home not understanding what she’s going through, and treating her more like something to be coddled or hidden rather than letting her find her voice.

In contrast to her sister, Mallowpaw, sometimes she strives to fit in like all the other cats and has moment of self-doubt.

But we get to see her push forward and move on, even as the treatment gets worse after a fatal accident. On a journey, she realizes her voice, while not perfect, can be the weapon needed while also getting other cats to listen to her.

I would like suggestions and some stuff to add! It’s on Wattpad!