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What is origin story? I really don't like dwelling on the past but recently, while observing my one year olds reaction to our dog barking, I got reminded of my true stutter origin story. So when I was around 2 or 3 my grandpa brought me along to our dacha where his permanently chained up dog attacked me, taking a bite of my ass cheek apparently, so it must have been quite vicious. For some reason my family sugarcoated the story, telling me that the dog scared me so badly I started to stutter, which always sounded really lame to me because I love dogs, so I rarely shared it with anyone. Now however when I think about how my children would react to a crazy dog taking bites at them, it feels like an obvious trauma/ptsd trigger that caused permanent damage. Wish I had the true story earlier so I didn't have to grow up feeling like that it's my own fault... like I rationally know it does not matter but for my own fragile self-image it would feel better to be a helpless victim rather than a stuttering coward.