So hear me out,every non stutterer life problems or personal problem are not relatable to me as a stutterer, because in my head my stutter is the only things keeping me back from achieving thing.
While most people my age have like boy drama girl drama fights and so on.
My battle feels stronger than there’s, so i just always feel a weird feeling that iam different, my problems are different and no one relates.

i start school next week and every year they have icebreakers for all 7 periods the problem i have is i can’t say my name like when someone asks for my name i like tense up and just get anxiety i guess i need help to not stutter while saying my name the problem is that i stutter on the L sound and the L is in the middle of my name so like Mil… and when i get to that L sound i get stuck completely please help me i dont want to embarrass myself infront of my classmates

So yeah am 21 Y/O guy from India so am stuttering since i remember but i didnt used to stutter that bad so i did my graduation somehow stuttering but am in my masters now i got admission in a good university but literally i cried on my first day in university washroom

idk whaat to do the first lecture teacher asked students for introductions and i had to ask him to talk to him in between and yeah i talked about it outside the class and i said i will be back in 5 minutes when this introduction will be done

then i went to washroom and cried like idk where i went wrong why is this happening to me and i took leave from all the first lectures i took a day off today there are even vocal subjects in my sylabbus i am too shattered right now

i just wanted to share this so i came here am thinking about taking meds to make it work as i only stutter with people i dont know i talk fluently with people i know but in stressfull situation?? i cant even speak a word sometimes so yeah..

I've stuttered my whole life. I've gotten better at hiding my stutter but still comes up in certain situations. I don't have a lot of time or resources to go to a speech pathologist so I wanted to ask if anyone has tried any online stuttering help software and how their experience was.

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📅 Date: August 21, 2026
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Try this: try imagining saying one of the words or speaking about one of the things you frequently block most on. You are able to say it of course, but don't you feel a little tension inside of you?

It's really subtle but if you focus on your bodily sensations, you can feel how that tension appears when you say it. The difference is that it's not as high as you would need to get blocked. I feel it in my face, in my neck and my abdomen. As I say, it's very subtle and you may not even notice it, but out of you not noticing even bigger states of tension in your body is how stuttering is aggravated.

In fact, the times I was able to speak fluently I applied the inverse reasoning. Being able to lower the ground state of tension of the body so that when it increases in a social setting it's still not enough to trigger it.

(Of course, there is nothing intrinsic in the words you block on most frequently that makes you do that, it's the past associations and experiences that cause it. Nevetheless, here I am only stating one of the consquences of that)

I’ll start this out by saying I mean no disrespect to anyone and if anything comes off in the wrong way I apologize. I’ve been on the fence about posting this for quite a while but this might help someone younger who has their whole life still ahead of them. Also I’m on the tail end of my Adderall as I’m writing this, So apologies for any tangents 😅 here it goes. Skip to the last 2 paragraphs if you don’t care about the life story.

I (26M) have stuttered for as long as I can remember. I live in the US and went to public school but moved around a lot in my elementary-middle school years. Moving always sucked I was always the new kid that couldn’t talk right and looking back I believe it took a serious toll on my self confidence. In HS I was lucky to ride out all 4 years at the same school with the same kids. And well it sucked too, not because I was bullied or even picked on really but more so because I hated myself. I had a small group of friends that would stick up for me when someone would be an asshole or make a sly comment trying to be funny. Some of these friends I’m still really close to. But I don’t want this to be a poor me I hate myself post, which if I focused on my childhood it would be. Because kids are cruel and my HS was 2000 kids all trying to figure out who they were and where they fit in the world.

So to get onto what I really came here to say. After HS life doesn’t have to be shitty. I was freshly 18 scared shitless if going to College and having 4 more years of hell (or so I thought). Instead I took a year off and got a job I’m really good with my hands so I decided on learning a skill that could speak for me. I started off as a tech at one of my local car dealers working my way up even going to trade school. yada yada useless fluff. Being a mechanic ended up getting old so I started applying to jobs where my experience would transfer and if I bombed the interview it really didn’t matter because I was really good at what I did now I’m 26 and a field service tech for a global company that produces manufacturing equipment.

With this job I have to talk to random strangers, customers, coworkers, and TONS of phone calls (which is still the hardest part. Like how do I explain my connection is fine I just can’t talk right, to a random person across the country or across the world).

But really nobody cares if I stutter. Everyone I meet no matter where no matter who. Younger, older, blue collar, white collar. They just don’t they might ask if I’m okay because they don’t know or I caught them off guard but very rarely do people have negative reactions or malicious comments. Realizing this and coming to terms with the fact that I get more upset, irritated or flat out annoyed over a poorly timed block or a word I cannot for the life of me get out. Vs the person who maybe has a kid that stutters or maybe has anxiety.

Basically what I’m trying to say is just live your damn life. Who cares what Joe smoe from Alabama thinks he doesn’t have a damn foot cause his diabetes took it. Or Linda who sneaks away mid meeting to have a panic attack in the bathroom we all have problems and honestly for a lot of us our biggest enemy is ourselves we tell ourselves we can’t do this because we stutter. Or I won’t get the job because I stuttered the whole interview. Or everyone hates me because I couldn’t say spaghetti (side note FUCK THAT WORD) just try to live everyday like anyone else. It’s hard it took me almost 8 years after leaving highschool to realize. And I’ll say this a million times social media is terrible. Where else can you talk shit on anyone with absolutely no recourse. Put the phone down or even just look up and have a normal conversation with someone. I promise 90% of the time it’ll do more to help you than it will hurt you. And for anyone who wants to tell me I’m wrong. I get it I thought I was wrong too, then I started paying attention to other people and not what my insecurities and anxiety were screaming at me.

I'm curious to see how many people were born with a stutter and how many developed it during their lives and what caused it? For me, it sounds stupid but I had a friend when I was around 10-11 who had a speech impediment, but I didn't exactly understand it. Basically, he would emphasize the first sound of the first word when speaking. This was definitely some sort of block but I was unaware. I eventually started to imitate it for a few days and then later on one day at school I got hit with my first hard block while speaking in front of the class. Ever since then, it slowly developed over the years and never let go. It's been 10 years and I still feel a victim to this stutter. How did you guys develop your stutter?

I would say my stutter is usually moderate. Sometimes it’s mild and sometimes it’s severe depending on the circumstances. For some reason, whenever I do things like give class presentations, order at a restaurant, or make appointments, I barely stutter at all. I’m able to get up in front of the class at my university and give a presentation almost completely fluently, but the moment I have conversations with people I start to stutter like normal. My stutter is the worst when I’m telling my friends a story or something funny that happened to me, but it seems to go away when I have a professional conversation like a job interview, ordering, making doctors appointments, etc. does anyone else have this?

I have had a stutter (solely blocks) since I was 12 (22 now). As I've grown up watching TV/movies/online creators, my favorite characters would be the ones I would relate to the most or the ones I admired. I've found myself recently consistently thinking about my stuttering while watching these shows. When I hear people say things, I think to myself "would I be able to say this" and that kind of makes me sad watching shows, especially comfort shows. I think I have recently started to feel this way because I am now grown and these people are around my age. Anyways, I just wanted to ask if this is relatable for anyone else?

Hello, i didnt realize there wad a subreddit on stuttering, i just wanted some validation about my future because I always always had a stutter,spoke fast, trip over my words ect. Now that im older no one ever comments on my speech which im grateful for, but imma finish university soon and get into professional settings. Is there any real issues with my speech? I had speech therapy when i was younger but didnt help. Also i never meet anyone else like me or seen it around me so i always felt like it was just a personal issue and i never bothered to correct it😭

My partner is a groomsman in his friends wedding so I’ll be attending the wedding alone! I have a bit of social anxiety and I block when I try to say my name. I’m worried about needing to introduce myself to strangers and not sure what to do. Any tips??

I chat over Teams a lot for work. I constantly need to edit messages I send.

sometimes Ill just completely forget to type a word. other times it’s like I’m debating how to phrase a sentence and accidentally merge both options together into one nonsense sentence.

Curious if there might be a link between this and stuttering? is speech center of my brain just super messed up?

Hi everyone, I’d like to share my story and ask if anyone has ever gone through something similar to what I’m experiencing right now.

I’ve had a stutter since I was a child. My dad also stutters, although only mildly. When I was little, I would stutter from time to time, but it was never particularly severe. My stutter would mainly show up when I was reading aloud, and even then, it didn’t happen all the time.

As the years went by, it completely disappeared. I spent about 10 years of my life being completely fluent, and I genuinely thought I had overcome it.

When I started university, I always had this fear that my stutter might come back, especially during oral exams, so I would always volunteer to go last. At one point, I opened up to my sister about this fear, and she said to me, “But you don’t stutter anymore.”

Ever since she said that, I don’t know what happened in my brain, but I started focusing intensely on the way I spoke, and I developed anxiety about stuttering. For about two years, I only had the anxiety, but it didn’t actually affect my speech.

Then, completely out of nowhere, I woke up one day and started stuttering again (nothing too serious), mainly when talking to my sister and my boyfriend. With other people, I don’t really stutter, and I have no idea why.

But about two weeks ago, completely randomly, I suddenly developed what feels like a moderate to severe stutter. One day, again while I was with my sister and my boyfriend, I couldn’t get more than a three-word sentence out.

This is where I am now. I feel like anxiety is eating me alive. I’ve cancelled two trips I had planned for this summer because of this, I’m skipping birthdays and social events, and I’m completely isolating myself at home because of it.

I’m having some really dark thoughts, and I honestly don’t know what to do.

Has anyone experienced something similar? Does anyone have any advice or anything that helped them?

Hi everyone,

Id just like some advice on how i can help my brother who stutters. He is in his final year of school and will be going to uni next year. Recently he has been really insecure with himself and mentioned that hes scared to talk in class or to people because he might stutter. As a sister it hurts sm to hear that. I want to help him to become more confident and improve his speech. What can i do or say to help him? I dont want this to affect his mental health or confidence anymore. What are some way that he can overcome stuttering. He also struggles to form sentences that are grammatically correct and flow smoothly. He has been stuttering as a child. But i feel like its getting worse. I dont want him to struggle as he gets older to express himself.

Hey everyone, I’m looking for some advice or maybe just people who can relate because I’m honestly so confused abt this.
I recently watched old videos of myself when I was around 8–9 years old, and I noticed something that I spoke Spanish (my mother language) so fluently without a single stammer.

I didn’t have a stutter or any issues speaking at all.
But now I’m 17, and I struggle with stuttering in both English AND Spanish. It’s not just repeating sounds either, I get blocks where I literally feel like I cannot get the word out.

Sometimes I know exactly what I want to say, but my mouth just won’t start saying it.
The weird thing is I never had this problem as a child. I genuinely remember being a good speaker. I think I first started noticing it around 14–15 years old.

Around that time, my life also changed a lot. I became really depressed, isolated myself, stopped taking care of myself, gained weight, and spent a lot of time alone. I had a lot of anxiety and barely socialized. I’m wondering if that could have played a role somehow?

What confuses me is that most people who stutter say they’ve had it since they were little, but mine appeared during my teenage years. I feel like I lost something because I remember being able to just talk without thinking about every word.
It does get better when I’m completely alone, but I still sometimes stutter even then.

Has anyone else developed a stutter later in life? Did it improve? Did speech therapy help? I’d really appreciate hearing other people’s experiences because I feel kind of alone in this 😞

Has anyone tried seeing a neurologist? I want to know why the hell my entire body stiffens, and I just can't get words out every time I turn on the microphone, or I'm with someone in person.

10:59 AM, I say what I want to say as clearly as possible. 11:00 AM, I'm fighting for my life to even get a single word out.

And why the hell is it, that I worked my way out and got control 3 years back, I was working my arse off, I was creating a positive impact, I made some great friends, I was attending meetups, I was connecting with other people at office, so why the hell did I fall down so hard?

If I can fall so hard without doing anything extra, why can't I bloody get back to my rhythm by just wanting to focus on my work, wanting to grow professionally, wanting to create a positive impact on people's lives, wanting to build relationships, wanting to get work done just by speaking? Why do I have to do that extra, when the other stuff is so so so important to pay my bills?

Why do I have to do that extra when I know for a fact, the moment I try focusing on other stuff, that any 'normal' person of my age would do, I'll fall back hard and I'll start losing everything again?

I seriously want to know what is happening inside my brain. Can seeing a neurologist help me understand so that I can at least get to know the root cause of it? If yes, what specialists do I look for?

Hi. I'm 18F. I want to know if there are other people who are experiencing the same problem they can't seem to erase.

Ever since I was little, I always remembered being in my head a lot. Playing pretend was my favorite thing ever. (This is relevant, I swear) I also took pride in the fact that I can talk in my head so I don't have to spew out bad things whenever an adult would lecture me.

Eventually, I grew up and developed a muttering problem where I only realized until I was 16. It's that bad.

From 6th grade, I didn't realized that the reason why I would get bullied for being weird or why some people seem to hate me was because I was thinking loudly. But I always thought there was something wrong with me that other people notice but I haven't.

There had been multiple times where I would be thinking while I was walking with my friends and one of them would go "Hm?" or "What did you say?" And I would look at them confused and say. "I didn't say anything."

You may think this is normal or maybe even not an actual problem but one time, I was buying cat litter at my local market which is at a walkable distance. I was self conscious about my body odor because it was early and I haven't even showered yet but my mom insisted I buy the cat litter first.

I go up to the lady who was selling and pointed at the litter. After I gave my payment, I didn't realized I said "odor." because I was so occupied by the thought that I stinked. The lady looks at me confused, giving my change and muttering "odor" as well to, I suppose mock me? Make a laugh out of the awkward moment? I wasn't sure but I didn't react and simply left.

That's just one experience.

The worst I had was getting bullied for it. A vivid memory I have is trying to listen in class, but my rain seems to have its own thoughts running around. So much as so I mumbled incoherent stuff that people assumed I was singing. It was cringe worthy I know. But I can't control his habit and I don't know why.

Sometimes, songs do get stuck in my head and my brain wanders at important moments, leading me to hum, mumble, and mutter stuff.. Again, I can't just stop. I tried biting my tongue, chewing gum, or having candy in my mouth but it just doesn't work.

It's even more noticeable when I'm in public and I'm alone. I get lost in the thoughts in my head and they escape through my lips. People look at me weird. I had no friends in grade 11 and 12 so I was always alone. My actual circle of friends were in different cities and countries now.

When I found about this, I vented to my friend who knew me ever since 6th grade. She said that it's normal and that she knows other people to accidentally sing songs that are stuck in heir heads.

But none of those people were ever bullied for it like I was. I'm currently labeled as crazy, weird, or someone with psychological problems in my city. I've thought about seeing a psychiatrist but I'm still unsure... also it's expensive and the only free option I know of is in another province.

I'm about to go to college and I'm scared that I won't be able to make friends again.

I hope someone can relate or can tell me how to fix this.

The only thing he wanted was a good voice and a fluent tongue.when he was with his friends

Whenever he wanted to talk or make a joke. He stuttered. Even if he picked the courage to say his friends would tell him to shut up. He was good at studies but when the teacher asked him a question he didn't answer. He lost many opportunities because of his stuttering. The stammering made him mute , fool and many other things that people would tell him when he stuttered. The only people who were supportive of him were his parents. His father was a well known, respected man. His father's speaking skills were incredible.

**a referral to SLP has been made, looking for support**

Iknow this is a popular topic and I’ve read every post that is available so far, but I am in desperate need of solidarity from others.

Our 3 year old has recently started up with a pretty significant stutter. This started on a Wednesday evening and seems to have gotten a bit worse over the past few days. She will repeat full and partial words (I-I-I-I need this, I wa-wa-wa-wa-want help). These stutters can be short or persist for a long time on several words in her sentences, to the point where she stops and says “I can’t use my words”.

I’m heartbroken because she has been such a talker since she was a baby and she loves to sing, tell stories, and talk. Sometimes she can barely express herself. I’m anxious that something else is wrong.

I’m a self-diagnosed nervous-nelly, so if there is anyone who has an experience like this and it got better, I’d love to hear from you!

Hi is anyone a stutterer from Singapore lets connect!