Hey there! (I'm new aswell) :P

[hobbex]

Hey!

First off, I am really glad that I finally found a forum especially for stutterers! I have been looking for ages, mostly for a swedish/norwegian forum so I could talk to people in my own language(s) and understand them better. Also perhaps meet up with someone and make some good friends(perhaps). :)

This forum will do just fine for me I am sure of, english is not that hard and I think I will understand what you people say. ;)


So...

My name is Robin Öberg, I am a 19 - almost 20 - years old guy from the northern part of Europe. Sweden. I recently got my very first job as a janitor at a conferense-hotel here in Ramnäs(where as I live), and I also, in the same wave, moved out and in to my very own apartment! :)

Here is a link to the hotel that I work at! http://www.ramnaskonferens.se/ (ramnaskonferens.se)

My stuttering problem that I have is that I get blocked-up. When I am supposed to start a sentence I am dead-silent.

".......My name is Robin" For example.

My hobbies, or as I would call them interests are not so many. My most interestes cosists of hometheathre, cars and also videogame and computers.

I tend to buy a whole lot of games and also other hardware for my hometheathre-system. The latest thing I bought for it was a Playstation 3, which works great! Silent and stud. ;)

If there's anything else you would wonder about it is just to ask me!

[Standingtall]

Welcome Robin, the majority of my stutter is blocks as well, don't really stutter, just those silent blocks. So, i tend to dance around, make funny faces to entertain my audience, while i get the word out. No dancing moves like Fred Aister, but i am getting better. My nephew and my sister was in sweden last week, an hockey tournement. I have yet to see the pictures she took of your country. Anyhow, great to meet you and looking forward in what you have to share.

[timitao]

welcome hope you enjoy yourself, i like to know peoples deepest thoughts and dreams so tell me... what job would you be doing if you didn't have a stutter and what other things would you like to do?

[hobbex]

Standingtall: To make funny faces and to dance around wouldnt really work for me, I am very shy as a person. The only thing that I tend to do, to make it more simple for me is that I say some other word. Not the best outcome in some sense, but it "works" for me. :\

Oh, they were in Sweden last week? Which teams played? I take it if they came here to watch ice-hockey they must have gone to the arena in Stockholm called Globen(The Globe).

I myself live in a really small town that is about 2 hours west of Stockholm. But to be honest I've only been there 3-4 times as I can remember. One time on a job, one time with school to visit a museum and one time with school again on a meet-up at Gröna Lund, the amutpark.

Nice to meet you aswell! :)

timitao: Well, to be honest I've only wanted simple jobs my whole life, like the one I have today as a janitor. Perhaps it has something with my stuttering to do, as if I reject harder and more craving jobs because of my stutter issue. Not sure. :\

But, I am very interessted in polititcs. My mother has always told me to be one(politician), but I feel more or less that if I became one I would have to talk a lot to different people and be forced to talk in public, a lot aswell. Tough luck.

What about you then? :)
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[timitao]

I know how you feel about picking certain jobs - i used to pick up the newspaper and not apply to anything that said " must have good communication skills".

I worked on a bar for from 18 to 20 and surprisingly did it it pretty good, i mean i blocked and everything but it was like i was in a character in that job, all smiles and chatty.

I had to quit come the end as i had a bad experience with a punter who made fun of my speech, that knocked me right down so i quit.

Then i got a job as a gardener my speech began deteriorating rapidly, as i wasnt in contact with a lot of people i had more time to myself and my nefative thoughts.

The last 7 months ive worked as a carer for a guy who broke his neck in a car accident. Its been an amzing 7 months ive had a lot of time to organise my life and restore belief in myself.

september im starting an access degree to be a speech therapist.

Also really want to be a public speaker.

ive overcome the actual fear of stuttering through changing my beliefs and thought patterns gradually over the year from situation to situation.

I still have speech disfluencies, but they are getting less and less.

[timitao]

I know how you feel about picking certain jobs - i used to pick up the newspaper and not apply to anything that said " must have good communication skills".

I worked on a bar from 18 to 20 and surprisingly did it it pretty good, i mean i blocked and everything but it was like i was in a character in that job, all smiles and chatty.

I had to quit come the end as i had a bad experience with a punter who made fun of my speech, that knocked me right down so i quit.

Then i got a job as a gardener my speech began deteriorating rapidly, as i wasnt in contact with a lot of people i had more time to myself and my negative thoughts.

The last 7 months ive worked as a carer for a guy who broke his neck in a car accident. Its been an amzing 7 months ive had a lot of time to organise my life and restore belief in myself.

september im starting an access degree to be a speech therapist.

Also really want to be a public speaker.

ive overcome the actual fear of stuttering through changing my beliefs and thought patterns gradually over the year from situation to situation.

I still have speech disfluencies, but they are getting less and less.

Are you open about your stammer

[Standingtall]

Standingtall: To make funny faces and to dance around wouldnt really work for me, I am very shy as a person. The only thing that I tend to do, to make it more simple for me is that I say some other word. Not the best outcome in some sense, but it "works" for me. :\

Oh, they were in Sweden last week? Which teams played? I take it if they came here to watch ice-hockey they must have gone to the arena in Stockholm called Globen(The Globe).

It is rare to find an open pws, and i am not one of them. I was just joking around, don't worry k.

My nephew was part of a hockey team from our part of the country, to play a few tournements in Europe. They played in Stockholm, not sure where or which arena.

[bwelling]

hobb - welcome to the forum. You sound like you may have found a home to express yourself. I have lived most of my life watching life go by because I couldn't do most of it because of my stutter. I believe it is time for me to change that and find out what I can do in life regardless of the stutter. Life is short.

[Becca]

I'm sometimes slilent before i start a sentence so i sometimes start with ummm or something like that before i speak. oh and politics is possible, i did politics for a level and managed to speak in public at young peoples conferences and in debates in class, lol i think arguing cures my stutter!

[bwelling]

Welcome Robin - glad you could find us. We like to keep this forum open to all for however they wish to express their thoughts and opinions about stuttering. Stuttering/stammering to me is a very lonely and scary place. This forum has taken a bite out of the struggle for me by letting me know others are having similar stuggles. Again welcome