postr/StutterJuly 22, 2025

I love stuttering, it makes you stronger than everyone else in the room. Own it!

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I love stuttering, it makes you stronger than everyone else in the room. Own it! Lol, thought you was about to read some positive stuff about stuttering? You see, from all the years that I've been lurking here. Something that really bothers me is how, dismissive People are to the negative posts here. Please tell me what im missing here? Because the way I see it. The more you think about how stuttering effects your life. The more you depressed and stressed out you feel. Speech is so common and effortless for most people that they never even consider navigating social situations based on if their body will obey them or not. It's like we are playing life on hard mode for no reason. And what really bothers me is how contradictory all the advice out there is. "The less you worry about stuttering, the less you will stutter". That's so helpful isn't? Isn't so easy to just banish fear and anxiety from our brains by engaging in the EXACT thing that causes us fear and anxiety? Who is this helping? What is with this paradox of desensitizing yourself to cure yourself? That doesn't even make sense. If your goal is to get rid of stuttering by not wanting to get rid of stuttering...then how? Wtf guys? Seriously what am I missing here?

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Emotional ExperienceCauses & VariabilityIdentity & Disability

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Anxiety & Social JudgmentStress & Fight/FlightFrustration & AngerMedicalization / Neurodiversity