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I'm a lifelong stutterer.

I have been a lifelong stutterer, and when I was young, I experienced some very difficult times.

The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others.

I used to not stutter any. Oh, I did when I was a kid, I stuttered, I had a bad stutter until I was probably between the second and third grade and a guy got rid of it for me.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it's funny. And it's not funny. It's not.

I had a stutter 'till... I still do today. I just work on it a lot. I obsess, if you will, with it, but I stuttered throughout my childhood.

The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.

I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ad.' And that turned into a mumble.

It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word 'stutter' is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It is onomatopoeic, an imitation of the halting, repetitive sound made by people with this speech dysfunction.