r/Stutter

So I recently gave an exam for radio broadcasting and somehow got selected. Then I passed the voice audition too. I’ve been doing training for the last 3 days, and now they want me to go live on air.

The problem is… I already have a speech block/stutter and a lot of anxiety while speaking, especially when saying my own name. Sometimes my mind freezes on certain words and the more I try to force them out, the worse it gets.

What confuses me is that they still selected me. During practice and training I can speak decently, introduce songs, read scripts, and communicate normally. But when I think about going LIVE, I start panicking about getting stuck on words on air.

I keep thinking: “What if I freeze?” “What if listeners notice?” “What if I embarrass myself live?”

Has anyone here worked in radio, public speaking, podcasting, or live media while dealing with stuttering or anxiety?

How did you handle the pressure of speaking live for the first time?

I really don’t want fear to make me quit something I genuinely worked hard for.

I’m 15, and I’ve been stuttering since I was around 8 to 10 years old. I fucking hate my life. Every day, I try to speak normally, but the words just don’t come out of my mouth. It’s not even just stuttering, I speak extremely fast, and people make fun of me all the time and compare me to online streamers who talk fast.

I have no idea if it’s fixable. Honestly, I’ve already given up. I went to speech therapy for 2 to 3 years when I was 9 to 12, and it honestly got even worse. I don’t know what to do with my life. My parents tell me I don’t try hard enough and that I just need to speak slowly. I wish it were that easy, but they just don’t understand.

I only have one good friend, who I’ve known since 1st grade. I can’t really make new friends because I also have very bad social anxiety. As soon as someone makes fun of the way I speak, I can never really talk to them again because the anxiety becomes overwhelming.

This is a fucking nightmare. I wouldn’t even wish this upon my biggest enemy. I hope that one day it will go away, but I genuinely have lost hope.

21M In college middle of class sir ask my name...keep silent no voice is coming out in front of entire class even after numerous attempts i couldn't and the worst part is my friend said that you can't even tell your name... Why God send me with this speech disorder

Forgive me for my english coz my primarily language is hindi

Any suggestion I know it is incurable but iam fucking tired of all these

I’m wondering if anyone knows a psychologist who stutters. Do you think it might get in the way of their work, and would you be put off seeing a psychologist like that? I stutter a bit myself and I’m studying psychology, which is why this thought occurred to me

I had a normal , social life till 9 years old.

After that my father passed away , developed CPTSD got fat which led me to isolating in my home playing video games mostly.

At school I was severely bullied , especially when I would go infront of the class and present but had insane blockages.

This made me hate school as everyone including the teacher did not understand what was happening.

In high school I started looking better , had the attention from a lot of women but I rejected all of them because of the stutter.

Im severely anxious and refuse to talk to people , I have become very angry and impulsive , I did have a friend group from age 13-17 but did everyone pretty much went abroad.

Now at university is hell , my stutter has since become much worse and I cant even say my name , my legs start shaking , I start hearing static in my ear , arm falls of the desk.

What sucks the most is that I saw my entire childhood and teenagehood go by being traumatized and scared to talk to people.

Now I have no one to go out with or even really talk to , bought all the exams at university because I cant be bothered doing that shit.

I was always lonely during school trips and would look at others joke , smile , and feel good.

I want a chance at a normal life , it is impossible accepting myself and seeing the trauma get worse and worse everyday.

A lot of people still think stuttering is something that suddenly appears because of trauma or anxiety, but research actually suggests that stuttering is neurological and often present from birth. Genetics also seem to play a huge role in it.

What can happen though is that a certain stressful or emotional situation triggers it or makes it much more noticeable for the first time. So the situation itself usually isn’t the root cause — it just brings out something that was already there beneath the surface.

Fluidez dependiente del estado en la tartamudez y posible hipótesis de reentrenamiento basada en la neuroplasticidad

He notado que mi tartamudez depende mucho del estado.

En ciertas condiciones, mi fluidez mejora drásticamente (desaparición casi completa de la tartamudez), especialmente con:

alcohol + cafeína

estados de alta excitación / hipomaníacos

medicamentos estimulantes (p. ej., metilfenidato)

En esos estados:

el habla se vuelve mucho más automática

la anticipación de los bloqueos se reduce significativamente

la automonitorización del habla disminuye mucho

iniciar el habla resulta mucho más fácil

la fluidez social general mejora drásticamente

Fuera de estos estados, mi tartamudez reaparece. Hipótesis personal (no es consejo médico): neuroplasticidad y aprendizaje conductual

Mi idea es que estos “estados de alta fluidez” podrían funcionar como momentos en los que el sistema del habla está menos inhibido y es más automático. Desde una perspectiva de neuroplasticidad, estos momentos podrían permitir: Mayor repetición de patrones de habla fluida sin evitación Reducción del condicionamiento del miedo relacionado con bloqueos anticipados Reentrenamiento de los circuitos de iniciación del habla con menor automonitoreo Consolidación de experiencias de habla exitosas en contextos sociales reales Posible reconsolidación de patrones de habla menos ansiosos/menos sobrecontrolados Enfoque propuesto (idea experimental personal): Consideré un enfoque cíclico estructurado: 7 días de alta exposición social con benzodoazepinicos+ estimulantes (efecto similar al alcohol ) Seguidos de 10 días de descanso Durante los 7 días de actividad Fase:

Maximizar la interacción social y la expresión verbal

Entrar deliberadamente en situaciones que normalmente evitaría debido a la tartamudez

Hablar sin evitar bloqueos ni sustituir palabras

Utilizar periodos de mayor fluidez para entrenar respuestas de habla más automáticas en tiempo real

La idea central es que la exposición intensiva durante estados transitorios de alta fluidez podría mejorar el aprendizaje dependiente de la experiencia y, potencialmente, promover un cambio de comportamiento a largo plazo mediante mecanismos de neuroplasticidad.

Specs: 4080S, 32GB DDR5, 6000MT/S, 4TB Crucial P3 Plus.

It has low fps and stutters a lot in-game with AI, even in freeroam. Also running Vulkan since it runs better. Drivers are up to date.

I came across a video on YouTube called strangers on stuttering 2 and one thing a stranger said that really hit a chord with me is that no really cares about your stuttering since they only think about themselves and only worry about their problems. Thats so so true. I think we stutterers just put so much pressure on ourselves and think what people might think when we start to stutter. Like that person in the video said, who cares, move on. most humans as you get older tend to be nicer and they just want to give you grace. It's ok. I thought I should share after watching that video.

I'll go first, YES. I certainly did. For example when I'm in a sticky situation and I want to come up with a quick lie, I take advantage of my stutter to quickly think of a lie while I was trying to pronounce the damn words.

To start off, I am still very confused with my stutter. It most consists of blocks and ssssss. It is probably genetic as my brother has a mild stutter and my cousin does too, but they are both less than me.

My family is extremely social because they own businesses. I want to in the future to contirbute to it but god damn is it gonn abe hard if i cannot even speak a full sentance. With mom, close friend, and siblings i barely ever stutter. Even to service workers i dont often. Whenever im in the workplace or with a group of freinds or cousins every sentance i form has to have some kind of block. I am not nervous is the problem, im not sure why im doing it.

I have went to speech therapy, took a public speaking course, i try to get out of my comfort zone but a lot of things do not seem to work. I really want to have a succesful future of my own but im not sure how i can get there if i cant form sentances with people as its very social.

I always assumed my stutter would go away on its own when I grew up, but here we are and I still struggle ordering my food. The older I get the more I realize how debilitating my stutter is. I think it unfortunately taught me that there’s something inherently wrong with me and that I’ll never receive the respect I give other people. I also feel that my stutter has stolen my personality. I’m naturally curious about other people and want to engage in conversations but I avoid doing so to protect myself from judgement. Lately my stutter has been significantly worse since I just moved and am looking for new jobs. I felt like I had somewhat of a handle on it but now it’s rogue and I have no control. My dad was just telling me I need to figure out a way to deal with it and he mentioned that it’s difficult for interviewers to handle it and that really bothered me and I felt it was insensitive but in a way he’s right and I just feel so defeated. I’m sure many of you relate and I truly hope stuttering becomes better understood in my lifetime.

Estoy obesionado en mejorar mí tartamudez y para ello haré todo lo que tenga al alcance para que así sea, reducción del stress, reducción laboral, terapia con psicofármacos, terapia psicológica, terapia fonoaudiólogica, quizás terapia de exposición. Volver al gimnasio. Tratar de socializar más etc. Hay enfermedades mucho peores de las que estoy agradecido no tener.

I graduated high school today. I had a good time and all, but my family forced me to go to dinner after. I didn’t want to go because I’m scared of ordering my own food. And yes, I am 18 years old and yes I am embarrassed of myself for this. I mean I can’t even order at a fucking restaurant wtf. I’m so fucked. How am I ever supposed to get a girl friend??

When me and my family sat down the waitress came and asked us if we were celebrating anything. My mom says “his graduation” and pointed at me. The waitress then asks me “what school do you go to?” The moment she asked I knew I was fucked. I couldn’t even get a breath out and I looked to my mom for her to answer for me and she just didn’t. There was no way I was gonna get the name of my school out, so I just gave up and put my head down. It was wayyyyy more embarrassing than it sounds.

What makes this all much worse than it sounds is that I never stutter in front of my family. Maybe once every 6 months, and it’s NEVER this bad. This time was fucking humiliating. It ruined my whole day and I sat there the rest of the dinner staring at whatever the fuck was around while I reconsidered my entire life.

I just can’t imagine living my life with this for much longer. If I can’t even order food at a restaurant how will I be able to work a job? How will I be able to find a wife? How will I be able to be happy?

I just don’t get it… I’m a good person. I try my best everyday to be a good dude, but I get nothing but bad in my life while people so much worse than me get to live their best lives. Somebody tell me how that’s fair please?? I’m usually a religious guy, but it’s getting harder and harder not to curse God these days because of what he continues to put me through.

So at 22M I’m still in college and recently I’ve been trying to look for jobs that I can have a good benefits and advance and or work in a field that I would really like to work in.

I would really like to work in sports and specifically soccer or basketball, also there are some really good office jobs that I would be very happy with if I got. I’ll admit my stutter is way better than it was even when I was a senior in high school and I’m just not really sure what to do.

My stutter style is like when you start stuttering at the start of your sentence, but you can get the rest after you get the first word. It’s annoying, but it’s definitely not the worst that I’ve seen and to be honest. I’m just not really sure how I should go about this because I know many office jobs or professional jobs outside of retail/restaurant want you to have a good communication.

I have had a stutter all my life, but it had mostly stabilized in adult life. However. i realize that who I am talking to and the context has a huge impact.

For example, when I talk to my young daughter, I never stutter. But when I talk to my mother, it can get as bad as when I was a teen, most people are somewhere in between. Also when I am in a car. It's automatically worst. I also tried speech therapy, but it was always essentially non-existent with the therapist, so it was hard to work on.

Do you guys have a similar experience where the person you are talking to impacts your stutter a lot?

I'm stuttering so much, since 4 years and I really don't know why. It's getting worse, I cant go anywhere, cant order anything, cant talk to a random stranger, cant catch a taxi or smthg, cant order the food. I mean I'm stuttering last year I went to a class and being there for like 2 years, I used to stutter alot, even while pronouncing numbers. And ive noticed that im stuttering in those word which mostly starts from B, R, P, N, M. IDK what is wrong with me. I just want to come out of it....I'm really getting depressed and even so embarrassed to go outside or somewhere by my own.

Can yall suggest me? Something that can reduce my stutter. I really need help I'm going to start my new academic year and i really want to get rid off my stutter as I'm going to meet new people and I've to travel too... I'm jst so embarrassed..

Please help me i mean suggest me thst I can control it in 1 month somehow.