My Story

Steve shares his childhood memories of a classmate who stammered.

Natasha writes about learning to adapt and accept things when covid turned her life upside down.

Hannah tells us how music helped with covert stammering, making her realise that communication isn't about fluency.

Zulfah shares her journey with stammering and tells us how it led her to create a video to help others who stammer.

Mikey talks us through his 12th visit to our conference, and shares the poem he wrote at the creative writing workshop.

Rhiannan tells us what attending her first STAMMAFest meant to her.

Tasneem tells us about life with an undercover stammer and what helped move her beyond it.

Justyna explores how impatience can diminish confidence in someone who stammers, and how active respect makes all the difference.

Stephen tells us what changed his mindset and uses his career to prove stammering doesn't have to hold you back.

Counsellor Wendy tells us about finding a training course that didn't see her stammer as a barrier; but rather helped her embrace it.

Naomi tells us how she started to embrace stammering and see it as a strength, which has released her to chase her dreams.