I sat on the bathroom floor, dizzy and nauseated, picturing the stage where I would give a reading the next day. Months ago, in a more optimistic moment, I had agreed to perform in a public reading ...

I should write this first, since it’s what people notice first: I stutter when I talk. I involuntarily extend certain letters or sounds and, more conspicuously, experience total “blocks,” wherein my ...

"I love you Mike, and I respect what you've done. But I can't be on your team." I looked at the man standing in front of me, baffled, "What the hell are you talking about? No one knows your deals ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- That feeling of holding yourself back from finishing the sentence of a person who stutters -- we've all been there. On this National Stuttering Awareness Week, WCCO Radio is doing ...

Imagine working as a server during brunch at a busy restaurant, walking up to a table of six, and being unable to say your name. Putting an order in at the bar, stuttering on half of the drinks, and ...

When I open my mouth to speak, sometimes the sentences flow with an effortlessness that most people take for granted. Other times my face clenches and the words come out in repetitive machine-gun ...

I was once told that I buffer like a YouTube video. Typically, the sentiment is coupled with impatient eyes, or foot-tapping like merciless knocks on the floor. Tap! Tap! Tap!—almost like cracking an ...

I’m a person who stutters. I’m also a cantor in the Conservative movement. My Jewish and stuttering identities feel increasingly intertwined, as both are related to the experience of time. As a person ...