commentr/StutterFebruary 1, 2021

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First, let me say personally that this year has been TOUGH (2020...). I've heard similar things from many of my friends who stutter that this year has just been a hard speech year. Some of this may be because we're all in a state of flux and having to adapt in new ways to living with COVID and all of the social unrest we've experienced (in the US at least). So, I think it may be natural in some way talking is just harder. Or, perhaps more accurately, given that we're all coping with different things, it may be that managing/coping/dealing with stuttering may be different/more difficult than before. So, I wanted to first validate what you're experiencing. As to fixing it, there's no easy answer there and anything I might say would probably seem superficial. The hope I think is that stuttering is still highly variable, so even if you're in a harder time right now, that doesn't mean it will always be that way.

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Causes & VariabilityEmotional Experience

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Severity & FluctuationHelplessness & Agency