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Had a birthday party for my youngest and had absolutely everything planned out. Half hour before leaving my lad went into a meltdown which made me late so off my schedule then little one dropped full jug of milk on the floor so Im consciously trying to avoid going into a meltdown myself and the more stuff went off course the worse I stuttered.
I did go along with the changes to my plans for the day and stayed calm but the stuttering got really bad!

I only seem to get one when Im stressed or on the fone! You all like that too?

Hmm... I don't stutter exactly, but my speech will go all disjointed with loads of pauses in between my words.

I don't like talking because I'd start to stutter.

I stutter when I'm uncomfortable/nervous. Normally when asking a shop assistant, for something.

Fortunately I dont' suffer from stuttering. But when I'm upset (whether it be frustration, stress, meltdown or even low blood sugar) basically I'm agitated, I slow down and punct.u.ate ever.y word. in.a sentence. Like. This.

Frustration in particular, I don't know how it does it, but my brain becomes unable to pull words together efficiently. Like a giant neuron traffic jam that just goes no where fast. Which only further frustrates me on top of already existing frustration.

I tend to misgrammerify my sentences, and then go back and rephrase them if they sounded too odd or didn't make sense. This can sometimes comes out as a stutter, especially if I do it mid sentence and it makes me repeat a word.

Misgrammerify needs to be made a word. Now. It's so fun to say!

I started stuttering in my teens as my vocabulary got large enough that people started to accuse me of being 'uppity' or trying to impress them with 'big words.' I stutter when I have to stop in the middle of a sentence and pick a whole series of words to convey the meaning that my brain knows it can do in just one. If I consciously allow myself to say what I'm thinking, I stutter less - but the consequence is in some social disapproval.

ordinarily i'm hyperfluid and my therapists say my vocabulary is the most extensive they've ever seen (i was told to stop using such large words, which depressed me because words are a special interest of mine). in any event, i tend to stutter when i'm sleep deprived or extremely anxious. i go from professorial monologues laden with obscure, polysyllabic words to awkward, erratic bumbles.

it's frustrating because i already look very young, small and frail; a stilted ineloquence just adds to the impression that i'm incompetent, daft or intellectually weak. which is a problem, given i'm a minority pursing a career dominated by people who may already be inclined to presume those things, if they're easily persuaded by stereotypical thought (and I've met some who are). i haven't found anyway around it but to target the things that cause or exacerbate the stuttering to begin with. i try to be well-rested ahead of time, if i know i'm going somewhere where i'll have to say more than a few perfunctory utterances about things unrelated to special interests. and i work very, very hard to treat my anxiety prophylactically, doing things to calm myself if i'm going to be in situations that are likely to provoke it.

^agree on the sleep.

I stuttered a bit as a kid. It got better, but I still stutter horribly under certain circumstances.

Same here. I don't actually stutter, but speaking feels very uncomfortable and unnatural a lot of the time, especially in front of teachers or peers. I lose my train of thought at the drop of a hat, so I have to stop and try to go back to what I was saying.