postr/StutterNovember 29, 2024

I just want near fluency.

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I just want near fluency. my stutter tended to fluctuate throughout my life between not-noticable and cant-get-a-sound-out, but the past two(?) or so years it's just been at the maximum, with it only getting somehow worse the recent months. I can't speak. at all. at school I just have to sit and listen to my friends, hardly uttering a word. now I'm losing them. there's no point being around someone who doesn't contribute to a conversation I guess, so they don't invite me out anymore. I have a lot to say, I promise. I should be out socialising and being a cool teenager and stuff but I can only speak to my boyfriend, and thats very limited too, I hope that doesn't affect us too. I think I'm pretty funny in my head, my humour would make my friends laugh so hard. they'd all love me. but now I don't spend much time with them anymore, what's the point? I've tried every technique ever, even trying to accept my stutter but nothing works. I just want to speak I have so much to say

Themes

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience

Subthemes

Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentOverthinking & MonitoringShame & EmbarrassmentSadness & HopelessnessHelplessness & Agency

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