Rants and Raves
We are all too familiar with how much of a challenge living day-to-day with a stutter can be. We have our bad days and our good days. Our embarrassing moments and our triumphs. As humans, we are programmed to brood over the negative things while glossing over the positive.
This page is for you to write anything you want about your stutter and stuttering experiences. Both bad and good. It would be great to let off some steam with others who understand exactly what you’re going through. So, share away!
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Everytime I order a mochaccino, chances are pretty slim that I’ll stutter through my order. “Mochaccino” has a lot of consonants I usually block on so my order ends up being “I’d like a small mo… mo…ka…ch…ch…chi…nnno”. I can say my entire order fluently except for “mochaccino”.
I usually get weird stares which, although I understand, it’s still not a pleasant experience.
After a long, long spell of always stuttering on the word, to my surprise, I was fluent last week. I still got a weird stare because I my fluency took me by surprise! So there must have been a look of shock on my face for a slight moment.
I ended up stuttering on “no whipped cream, please” which kinda ruined it. Especially when the barista told me that they don’t put whipped cream anyway
I thought I would share a stuttering related problem which has been effecting me at work recently.
I work as a window cleaner and while working I will often be asked by customers if I want a drink. I never do as I have my own liquid in the car. My usual response to the question is something like “no thanks. or “No I’m alright thank you”. However, nine times out of ten I will experience a block when trying to say my reply. In reality this probably only lasts a few seconds but when I am in the moment it seems like longer. I have never had any of the customers mention it so I don’t know if they even notice. Maybe they just assume I am thinking about whether I actually want a drink or not. I feel like they think I am rude though in taking so long to reply and my fear is that one day I won’t be able to get out a reply at all.