"Stay calm, take your time.""Just speak comfortably.""Maybe your mouth can't keep up with your brain."These are words I was ...

Or rather, I was always thinking about it. Every time I spoke, every time I stumbled over my words, I felt something beyond ...

I was in my college boyfriend’s dorm room the first time I spoke openly about my stutter. Though I had stuttered since learning to speak — my deficiencies with spoken language were so evident, my ...

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Char Adams is a Human Interest writer and reporter at PEOPLE. She also writes about her experiences on her blog and vlog, The Stuttering Journalist. I’m one of the three million people in the United ...

I remember the first time I saw my disability. I was checking my makeup in a mirror and telling my parents about my evening plans to go to a movie with friends. But I couldn’t say the word “movie”—or ...

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 ...

I was waiting in line at my bank’s drive-up service, hoping to make a quick withdrawal. I debated my options: two vacant service lines and one busy one for the ATM. The decision was easy: Wait in the ...