You shouldn't feel sorry for herz that's what makes them even more sad that they're going through things like these, instead. You could encourage her to continue pushing and overcome this obstacle in her life.
As a stutterer I can tell you It is definitely a handicap. Growing up kids can and will be cruel. Depression is always an issue. It's hard for non stutterers to understand what it's like. Just imagine having one of those electric dog collars around your neck but no one else can see it. Whenever you try to make certain sounds you receive a shock that prevents you no matter how hard you try. After a while you dread having to make those sounds. Now, a job interview is stressful enough but for a stutterer it's crippling. Depending on the severity, your career choices are somewhat limited.
I cannot believe that there are actually people thumbing this video down and posting nasty comments laughing at the girls trying their hardest to speak. I've stuttered for my whole life and it is people like that I have absolutely no respect for. They have no right to laugh and make fun of us because they do not and cannot understand the troubles that we face every single day of our lives. Aside from the morons who find it amusing, These girls rock! I really want to go to one of these whenever I have the chance. I only know one other person that stutters and I feel like this is an amazing opportunity!
I have a severe stutter and when people say, “Take a deep breath” it annoys me so much. I went to speech therapy throughout my childhood, and breathing in would literally never work. It irritates me so much
Same here, I have a severe stutter too (like even worse than the 3rd girl), and speech therapy has never worked for me. I’m 29 years old. Stuttering for us is largely neurobiological in origin, which is likely why speech therapy techniques don’t work. I’m hoping one day there will be a drug that can cure us.
Dnt worry every thing will be fine....first of all be confident on yourself...and try to speak...slowly...with ur own pace..and try to speak those words which u r confident on it...or replace the word ....i hope u get tz...by the way i m also a stammerer bt..i m improvng tz ..with tz technng hope u cn also☺️
My name is Leslie perez and I have a mild stutter. I feel like us people who stutter live a tougher struggle than those who don't because we know what we want to say but can't say it. I'm a person who LOVES to talk a lot and at school I try to keep quiet only because I'm scared of a strong stuttering. Growing up as a girl who stutters wasn't easy, I was alway bullied. But I am now a LVN in training and I try everyday to not let it get in the way of my goals. It's extremely hard but I know that Stuttering doesn't define me
Being afraid it's the first step to stutter more and more. I kinda had this problem when I was like 10 or 12. But u just have to not think about it, and it will disappear but it was very humiliating for me in that times. It's easy to get rid of this, just be confident and don't think about it. I was very shy to talk to girls and sometimes even to guys like my own friends. Today I talk to everyone and I recognize myself as a very very confident person. Stuttering makes u become weird and feel weird and gives a lot of cringy vibes. I. Hope u get rid of that.
To all you stutterers out there. You'd be surprised how many people you are helping by allowing other people to observe your confidence. I don't stutter but I have my own issues. We all do. The fact that you guys are comfortable and outgoing despite your challenges is something I find deeply encouraging. If you can accept you, I can accept me!
I have had 3 or 4 strokes an the last 1 i had left me with a server stutter. I get so upset because I know what i want to say. I get a few words out then bam. Stutter begins. 10 mins to get 1 sentence out. Driving me crazy not speaking splain English
God bless that third girl. Her eye contact was great. Her confidence shone. You go girl. Having said that I really should get to a conference. Stuttered all ny life. Keep running into people in the field pushing fluency. I've stuttered openly and freely the last 30 odd years.
@@mrpaimon756 She hasn’t overcome stuttering. It’s always there. Maybe not as bad, but mine just flared up months ago when I was almost speaking perfectly. It’s so discouraging. This girl is beautiful and so strong. I love her already!
@@loveshell6945 I would like to be a robot cause human body is so painful I can handle my pain but others pain.... it's hurts more, robots don't have a feelings they are ready for die without pain😭
The thing that gets me mad is, people think stutterers are dumb because they stutter. Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton all stuttered and they were geniuses. It's actually proven that the average stutterer is smarter than the average non-stutterer.
geerenmo I know. People talk loud and slow to me, assuming I have trouble understanding or hearing just because I have problems speaking. They have no idea how fluent my THOUGHTS are, it's just communicating them.
It's amazing the deep things they say, especially the last woman. Living with such a condition may even make what you say more valuable because you know you can't go on and on about petty stuff like many people who can speak with ease; who may sometimes "abuse" that ability by using it in all the wrong ways; whining, backbiting, making fun of others etc. A bunch of brave women here! Big love!
That girl with the heavy stutter was inspiring! I had a particularly bad stutter yesterday evening (second languages were involved) which was upsetting. My brain kept freezing up too :/
Man sending tons of love to anyone who has dealt with stuttering or just not being able to speak how you want to. I dealt with stuttering for the first 23 years of my life and I FINALLY overcame it. I use to have to use synonyms for words I couldn't say lol. I had all the tricks in the book man. I would hate going to dinner with my family because I would get anxious as the waitress approached me so I would have to order something off the menu that was easier to say other than what I actually wanted. The main reason I started my social media was to speak to people and put myself outta my comfort zone. It's all in your mind. You must recondition your subconscious mind and take control of your life. Now I speak for a living! I created a program to help any and everyone who struggles with stuttering like I did. I won't lie and say it'll be easy. but it definitely will be worth having control over your life!
I have a (relatively mild) stutter, too! I meet up with lots of people who stutter once a year, and it's so empowering to talk to people with stutters ranging from very mild to very thick. Having people to relate to is such a great feeling.
This made me smile because I completely understand what these lovely ladies are going though. I have dyslexia and a stutter so you can imagain how fun reading a speech is XD
I've stuttered all my life, I've even dated a female that stuttered also. been to speech therapy all my years of school, didnt help. just have to accept who you are, then others will accept you also
I've lived with a stutter for over 30 years, and oddly enough i've never met any women who also stutter, even at speech therapy it was all men which is kind of odd. I developed my stutter when i was 10 caused by trauma due to a sudden death in my immediate family. It hit me hard, and within weeks i had a full blown stutter, very much like the third girl in the video. After going to speech therapy for several years throughout my teens and a lot of hard work and practice through the rest of my life, eventually my speech impediment changed from stuttering over words to not being able to form a word and say it. I have good days and bad just like everyone else. I'm 42 now, and my speech is very much a part of my identity. I've found it difficult to form relationships due to lacking confidence it talking to women. I would love to meet some women who have similar speech issues so we could chat and have something in common to build upon. Great video though, it's really important for women (and men) to socialize and chat about their experiences and not to suffer in silence.
@@1AMYPTURNER Yes. A stutter impedes a persons ability to communicate effectively which can have a profound effect on their daily life, wether that be speaking face to face, via telephone or otherwise.
I am almost 16 years old and I am a freshman.. I stutter a lot. When I grow up I would like to be an actress and singer. I always went to school all my life ... the first 8 years for me were not easy at all, in fact I have been a victim of bullying and cyberbullying both for my origins and for the problem of stammering, the teachers weren't understandable at all , and I had only one friend who later turned out to be fake and toxic. When I went to high school everything changed, everyone loved me and supported me, the teachers were very kind and understandable, It relieved me a bit and I started to be more confident and less scared of talking to people, but still I don't know how to reduce my problem ... if anyone knows more about it and knows some solutions please say it in the comments!♡
As a stutterer God bless yall I know what you go through YALL ARE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE, football got me through a lot of the jokes people had they looked past the fact I stuttered because I could ball but for some the jokes and ignorance cam be hard but I love when women stutter but I didn't know that there were so many women that stutter. I LOVE YALL
Love this video, as a fellow woman who also stutters I know what it's like to feel outnumbered by men who stutter. I would love to meet other women who also stutter. Great video NSA! I hope to one day be able to start going to the conferences. I have one thing to say to the haters on here, making fun of anyone's disability---you are not immune to any disability, disease, or impediment. Any of those could happen to you one day (or to your loved one), remember that next time you show no compassion and choose to pick on someone's disability. Try walking a mile in my shoes, you would never laugh at anyone else again.
My son was stuttering a lot. He went to many speech therapies and nothing helped. It would take him minutes to say 'I' or to coin a sentence. Then we moved to Croatia when he was six years old. While he was still speaking English at home with his older siblings and his mom, he had to switch to Croatian in pre-school. Miraculously, he stopped stuttering after less then a month. After three years living there, we came back to US and his English speech is still without any stuttering. He is now twelve and I don't think that he has any memory that he ever stuttered and we are not telling him either. I thought I'll share this experience in this forum, perhaps this experience can be explored further.
I have read of this same phenomenon. Similarly, there are people who can be fluent if they speak with an affected foreign accent. I can see where somebody might decide to live in a foreign country if he/she could avoid stuttering in that language.
it takes courage to make a video like this for these women. they try their absolute best, I know because I suffer from stuttering, too. I can't order at a restaurant, let alone let my buffering voice be heard. I am inspired. I respect all these women greatly.
seeing other people who have the same probelm like me make me feel that i'm not alone and that we can all get throw this and this is the worst time for me because i'm in the high school and some people think i'm weird because i don't talk a lot well the truth i don't alot because i don't want them to know i stutter and see me stutter :(
No one truly understands how this feels if you're not a true stutter. I wish they would learn more about causes and cures. So many take their fluent speech for granted. I think stuttering has contributed to my high blood pressure at a young age, 19. I'm 36 now. I think it definitely causes anxiety and depression too. Imagine worrying, pretty much, EVERY TIME you have to speak. It's so unfair and is, sorry to say, a curse. At least that's how I feel.😔
@@JanetFrancis-fe8jz❤️I find speaking in a higher pitch than my normal tone helps a lot for me. It's almost foolproof if I remember to do it. Some people say take a deep breath and speak while you're releasing the breath. Some say they say what they're about to say 3 times in their head First before speaking it helps. Someone has said they begin the sentence with the word "so" when they feel they'll stutter. They also have devices, like one called Speech Easy, that u put in ur ear like a bluetooth and its like a close echo that sounds like someone is speaking with u, which helps some people too. Stay strong. You got this❤️
I felt bad for them imagine to having a hard time speaking because of this condition.I like how dilligent they are in expressing their thoughts no matter how their condition make it hard..feel sorry for them .kudos for being brave and a fighter.
I stuttered from kindergarten until my senior year in high school. I played football in high school and that truly helped me because I felt accepted as a team member. I would stutter less because I was relaxed being around other teammates. I nodded my head, smiled a lot and joked while conversing with other teammates. I gained confidence in class speaking to classmates and teachers. After high school I joined the Army. I had a relapse and stuttered more. My fellow recruits helped me and I excelled during training. Being in the spotlight was most difficult. I admire these brave people who are inspiring others who stutter not to give up. I live now without a stutter. People say I talk more which was because I stuttered for a long time. Thank you for your inspiring video.
I hate to burst your bubble but you’re not gonna find a girlfriend at the NSA conferences, because everybody who attends those conferences comes from all over the country so unless you wanna uproot and move close to the person you met, the relationship will be long distance so it wouldn’t work out
I have a stutter and after I was with my boyfriend for a few months, he said he would occasionally stutter at work. I think maybe we pick things up from the people we spend time around? When I see someone giving a presentation and stuttering I can feel their tension in my chest and get anxious about it myself. Maybe spending a lot of time around other people with the same condition isn't the best way to help yourself?
I get more amazed each time I watch videos like this people who stutter coming forward an letting there voices be heard each women on this video are some of the bravest women I have ever seen..I truely though it was just a guy/make disorder but I see I'm not the only one now age,race or gender doesn't matter congrats to all of you beautiful gifted women for standing up and being heard
I feel guilty of not sharing this since I am once an extreme former stutterer. But i am healed 100% on self made techniques. And I know exactly how it really feels to be a stutterer. Well, you need to sacrifice 15 minutes daily for about a month only and trust me you will be healed completely. Just take a book on your mother tongue and go out to some quiet or outskirt places and read the book so loud as if you are very very angry. Reading the book means literally you must be shouting on the top of your lungs with frustration. Or take with you one of your love ones or family member and let them stay approximately 200 metres away from you and try to have some conversations loudly. Repeat this for a month. Trust me within a week you will see some improvements. All the best guys.
Thank you for posting this! I'm writing a story and have decided to add a character that stutters. Finding this video will help me with developing the character.
As a fellow stutterer, I want to find number 3 and be her friend. My speech impediment is not bad at all but it still makes me self conscious, plus I talk fast. I'm 27 with two kids and I still ask my mom to schedule my children's doctors appointments because I am embarrassed and dread talking on the phone. hate it. I try so hard but I can't shake it. I wish I was able to have a conversation without stuttering and talking fast.
I really understand these people cuz it happens to me a bit, but i learned to deal with it, what happens is that some ignorant people make fun of it and don't understand that it's not our fault
Tell me if anyone goes through this. I have a stutter but am now used to it. First off I just started stuttering a few years ago and I am 28 years old. I am now used to it. But for people I haven't seen since I started stuttering I get nervous around them and definitely stutter. I Don't usually stutter around people who know that I do anymore. Although yesterday at church I had all kinds of ticks and stutters. So my question is. Do you guys ever have really good days or weeks and then you have that day like you feel like someone is strangling you because you just can't speak to save your life?
I have a stutter. even my parents are rude to me. they just finish up the sentences for me. my friends laugh a lot to me too. that's hurting. and I feel my confidence go down in a really fast manner. People who can speak fluently should help people like us. they really should
Saddie Easton same here I'm 21 and just started stuttering. It fucking sucks so bad especially when I meet new people. For some reason I stutter way more when I'm nervous.
I used to have really good days and bad days but unfortunately now my days are always bad, just cos it's so hard to combat it so it's like my brain is just used to it always being difficult. I've never been confident in speaking my entire life but I can definitely tell you that when I was a kid it was much better then compared to now as a 29 year old. Maybe back then I could get away with not speaking so fluently all the time but now that I'm an adult I'm living with all this stress and pressure to be perfect, and that makes it worse.
all of them are beautiful.... 😊 even i am facing the same problem ... i can understand its hard ... But remember NO ONE IS BORN PERFECT.... And loads of love and happiness to everyone there ... And the third girl is so cute 😍 god bless you
listening these girls is so amazing for me, because i realize that i'm not the only one who stutter and that there are people who can live a happy life with their stutter. unfortunately i can not go to those conferences because i live southamerica and i can not afford going there but i would love being part of NSA
Every person I've ever met that stutters including myself is very intelligent and artistic. Don't get me wrong I do stutter but for some reason when someone call themselves trying to tease me on the matter they get the shock of their life lol
Power to everyone that stutters and want to tame it. It's a neurological condition, I myself get stuck sometimes and can't say exactly what I'm thinking but I haven't found loopholes. Wording the things differently that you originally wanna has seem to help me. Building confidence is important too and from what I have seen sometimes almost completely eliminates stuttering. Talking to yourself out loud alone not only helps but builds confidence. Lastly, I have found that our heart rates increase when we stutter, it feels as if your mind is lifting a really heavy weight.. what I found helpful is realizing that you're getting too worked up amidst stuttering, stopping and relaxing until your heart is beating back to normal and just play it cool. Being as smooth as possible at that very moment really helps, think cool, internally tell yourself that you're the smoothest motherfucker around and then proceed to say what you were gonna say. Calmly. Don't get excited. I hope these things help anyone in the stuttering struggle!
Hi, I have stutter too. I believe the cause of stuttering is due to our laziness in breathing. We should focus on our breathing rather than the voices. We need the correct technique to breathe. When we breathe in the air, we must feel the oxygen in our lung, in other word every time when we speak we take in a deep breath. I always use this method when talking to stranger or talking through a phone. It helps me a lot.
This video is really inspiring to the people who stutter...oh and sometimes I do stutter,we all do so we cannot laught at this. Especially the 3rd girl I really wanted to help her and say "calm down and take your time with your words".
Juju Barnes When people say “calm down and take your time” I find it unhelpful as you’re more likely to stress me out as I’ll feel like I can’t block or stutter in front of you as I was already calm and I was going take my time if you’ll let me. Just be patient and give us time to get through the block.
i stutter too.People around me dont understand prob of people who r stutter including my parents. Some told crazy solution. Some insult. I fright to talk in puplic but i have no choice. if teacher told me to do oral test , debate , public speaking ,i really nervous. Everytime i talk in puplic people insult me. I cant even defend myself , tell my feeling and people think im arrogant because i cant talk. i undergo so many dicrimination and insult. although im good and smart. now im 19. now im not stuttering. those days i cry cause of my disability. but i wish i stutter sometimes when i success in life cause i want to show people who insult that i success although i have disability. now when i stutter i feel so happy..
I have stuttered all of my life. It's terrible. However, I learned to control it when talking to people other than my family, close friends and SO. I use alternative words when I have to say a word that makes me stutter (mostly words that begin with c, k, i, u). Although it's hard to live with, stuttering is a gift to all of us who have it. We're unique❤.
i don’t know what the hell is the topic of this video but i liked it because it gives these women a chance to speak up their minds! normal people don’t know how painful and torturing stutter is, it feels like someone is trying to rip off your tongue! like pronouncing one word takes deep breathing, a lot of stretching and sweating! and the ultimate worst thing is when a normal person tries to show you how to speak properly! they don’t know anything about stuttering.. my mom speaks normally and she always tried to show me how to talk properly when i stutter like: try to speak slowly, try to say the word gently but it never helped because i was always expecting that i’ll fuck up my speech and they will laugh at me or get furious and tired of waiting.. i used to see the disappointment in my family member’s eyes, like it’s my fault somehow, and i used to see the ridicule in the eyes of my relatives and friends too, and that’s just very heart breaking and soul crashing.
Sometimes when I stutter I get so frustrated that I can't be fluent that I literally get depressed only because of that, like everything else doesn't even matter anymore. Even though my words are practically in my pocket, so to speak, sometimes I just can't get them out instantly so I figured out some solutions to that (tho it may be very personal, I still hope it helps): 1. Improvise. Run around circles a little and if you feel like you can't get one particular word out, add an adjective or a linking word or anything that builds up momentum. 2. Find a synonym and quickly replace the words in your head. 3. Twist the sentence (and consequently its syntactic order) in such a way that the word you feel will be stuttered (because it happens a lot, i.e. to anticipate the stutter) either comes last or is intertwined with something that creates momentum/flow. 4. If it's not absolutely necessary, just don't say anything and simply swallow, perhaps after a deep breath things will be better. If absolutely necessary, tho, try to be calm and slow, don't rush, and try to control your breath a little, because if somebody really has the willingness and the patience to listen to you, they will. Extra: One thing I noticed is that many times it depends on the level of interaction with the various people I talk. If me saying something means I have to interrupt somebody or be more vocal than they are, chances are I'm gonna end up stuttering. This whole thing also comes down to self-awareness and self-confidence (which is often annihilated simply because of stuttering). Hope this helps. Warm embraces to everyone! xoxoxo
I stuttered. But now I don't. Positive thinking, self confidence and deep breath helped me speak iin public. There is no cure for that. You have to change it by yourself
Please tell me more about how I can deep breath my way out of a neurological disorder. You must know some next level scientific shit cause I been breathing deeply for years and I still repeat my fucking words.
I stutter too. i used to do it much more before i started working on music. working on my music, and constantly monitoring my voice and breathing almost completely fixed my stuttering. as a former stutter myself i recommmend constantly recording yourself speaking. it will help
you are right about singing no stammer, i had bad one at school. now i am a singer/songwriter and find when i slow my speech down its better. check my songs out and my.speaking voice out too. jstar
I'm a girl. I can never even begin to explain to people how my speech makes me feel. I can't. My few friends are used to it and they always say that they are. I always feel like I look stupid and sound like I have a mental problem. I hate myself for being born this way. Also the ticks and faces you make when you try to say something just make me feel embarrassed, I think about it all day when I try to talk to someone and I inevitably do that. I hate myself for this.
I'm 58 I starting stuttering after having ACDF surgery on my cervical spine, they damaged my vocal cords. Now I know the discrimination people who stutter go through. The one thing I'm tired of is people not letting you finish speaking they finish it for you and often get it wrong.
After long search for a cure to stuttering, I stutter so bad and it affected my life, and career! Thanks to doctor isibor couldn't have done it without his herbal treatment and body cleanser I'm very happy can speak fluent..
I kinda had this problem when I was like 10 or 12. But u just don't have to think about it, and it will disappear but it was very humiliating for me in that times. It's easy to get rid of this, just be confident and don't think about it. I was very shy to talk to girls and sometimes even to guys like my own friends. Today I talk to everyone and I recognize myself as a very very confident person.
I've never had an issue with my speech until about a year ago. I'm 22 years old and it's alarming to me to be an adult who just now developed a speech impediment considering most stuttering cases arise in young children between the ages of 2-5. I've dealt with a lot of psychological issues throughout my entire life and I've noticed some symptoms regarding post traumatic stress disorder that followed a very difficult and traumatizing experience in my life back in the fall of 2015. Is it possible that emotional stress, depression and anxiety can trigger a speech impediment?
Yes stress anxiety or depression can cause stutter too. I have experienced myself. When i was a kid i was just fine. I grew up and it's gets worse each day cause i have depression and anxiety. I have researched and found what you said is true. sorry for bad English.
Brittany Alexandra Yes, stress and emotional issues can be a big factor. Still, developing a stutter so late in life is pretty unusual. I would recommend seeing a doctor to be on the safe side. Some physical issues in the brain like tumors or traumatic damage could cause stuttering. It is probably not too serious but I would recomend getting checked out.
always think its a challenge for you in this world and be as confident as you can that will really help you i too started stuttering when i was at age of 14 now i am 21 i face some difficulties but i deal it by boosting my confidence
No worries we all have issues and I've been stuttering since I was 6 but It's very mild not really too extreme as I was younger. It mostly happens when I'm stressed or nervous but throughout the years i don't really care what people think about me cause no one is perfect.