Anybody here have/had a stuttering problem?

Ive suffered with a stutter and stammer for as long as I can remember. How servere it is varies allot. It's allot worse when I'm cold or stressed. Ive tried speech theropy and didn't really help, but that was years ago. I am thinking about going back due to my new job does requires a certain amount of communication. I find it's allot better face to face, on the phone i'm just awfull.

I've only had a few people take the **** out of me for it. I find it fustrates me allot more then it does with other people. My one pet hate though is when people just nod and smile, makes me few like why bother to try to talk with some one in the first place. Saying the sencetence under you breath first a few times helps sometimes. Havn't thought about the rearranging the sentence, will have to give that a go.
 
My youngest son has speech problems. when he was younger he had glue ear. Now he is 14 he still suffers to this day. I and other members of the family struggle to understand him sometimes.

He rushes his words out and his sentences aswell. I ask him to speak slower and he does and it sounds good.

We have never had a stutter in the family, so its new to us all. although I wouldnt change him for the world.
 
One of my friends has a slight stutter. He's normally fine around people he knows and only hangs on the odd letter very briefly. He's a bit worse around groups / new people.
 
Tummy said:
One of my friends has a slight stutter. He's normally fine around people he knows and only hangs on the odd letter very briefly. He's a bit worse around groups / new people.
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yeah, I think out of their comfort zone, it often gets worse. It must be a nerve thing, my son is a lot worse when he gets nervous or you ask him to repeat what he has just said....
 
I used to have a terrible stutter, like the op it was like something stopping the word coming out, not the type of stutter that makes you go t t t t t t ect. very embarrassing at times :mad: I think it was a self confidence issue because it would mainly happen when I had to speak to someone I didnt know like asking for something at a shop or a drink in a pub and so on. worst of all It would always happen when someone asked me my name :mad:

What I would have to do if I got a word 'stuck' is do something like clear my throat and/or say some thing else unrelated and look like a weirdo trying to say what I wanted. some times that didnt work and I had some horrible experiences which made the whole thing worse because I was stressed out.

I havnt really suffered much with it for the last 10 years (i am 36 now) but every now and then it can strike at the most unexpected moments, especially when I am tired or stressed out but I cope with it much better now and dont get too embarrased.

I worked with someone at one point who had a horrific stutter, but it never stopped him doing anything and he always had a positive attitude. One day I went with him to buy some tickets for a gig and he stood there for ages trying to say ticket, lol t t t t t t t t t t breath t t t t t t t t breath t t t t t t t.......:D and theres me who couldnt say anything looking like a right goon :D
 
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bodybag said:
My youngest son has speech problems. when he was younger he had glue ear. Now he is 14 he still suffers to this day. I and other members of the family struggle to understand him sometimes.

He rushes his words out and his sentences aswell. I ask him to speak slower and he does and it sounds good.

We have never had a stutter in the family, so its new to us all. although I wouldnt change him for the world.
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Get him all the help he can now. You may be able to fix it before it becomes more permanent. Stuttering is very much also a phycological problem later in life which could be avoided or reduced.
 
hmmm my brother in law will start a sentence pause half way through and if u watch him u can see his mouth trying to say the word and eventually gets it out. Its not really annoying for me coz he generally gets the word out about 3-5 seconds later. Just a noticible pause.
 
Currently work with a guy who's in his late 50's who has a bit of a stutter although it seems to come and go a bit and really haven't noticed much over this last few years. Used to be hilarious though as quite often when he came to a word he couldn't get out he'd say "actually" and this almost drew more attention to his speech problem than his actual speech problem as he used to throw "actually into a sentence, even into the middle of words.

I moved to a place called Newtownabbey and one day he asked me how I was liking it up in Newtownactuallyabbey. As much as we wouldn't make fun of someones speech problem we could do nothing but laugh when he came out with things like that. Seemed to have been a bad habit he'd got into although I haven't noticed it for quite some time as it seems to have improved considerably.

Think it may have been generally worse if he was in situation he was unfamiliar with or maybe a bit of pressure on him or something.
 
Try this:

Plan what you're going to say before you need to. In the example of buying a drink at the bar, you're going to be saying something simple like "pint of lager, please."

Mentally add to the sentence. Say "(Good evening barman. I would like a) pint of lager, please." The trick is that the part in brackets you "say" in your head. You only actually speak the "pint of lager, please" part.

Worth a shot, eh?
 
Don't seem as common as they used to be any more. One guy at work has one, can get annoying at times when he's having a rough day, but you get used to it I guess. I'd hate to have one myself though.
 
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