postr/StutterMay 25, 2021

Stuttering and how isolating it feels.

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Stuttering and how isolating it feels. I want to vent on here and ask for some advice, and I know many people are most likely in the same predicament at the moment, I have stuttered my whole lifetime, and it brought nothing but excessive weight on my self confidence, to the point where if I even try to speak I just stop mid sentence, or just too embarrassed to start one in general, this led to suicidal thoughts and it hurts how I can just look at everyone around me who is not dealing with a speech disfluency watch them speak without ease, people walk up to me and state "Well I have a stutter too and its perfectly normal" well ATLEAST YOU CAN BEGIN A FUCKING SENTENCE WITH NOTHING STOPPING YOU, and also the fact how I have trouble forming words or find it tough to use the right words in a conversation, anyways I wanted to get this off my chest.

Themes

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience

Subthemes

Feared Words & NamesAvoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentOverthinking & MonitoringShame & EmbarrassmentAnxiety & Social Judgment