commentr/StutterNovember 29, 2021

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Thats super nice to hear, I will be finishing my PhD soon from Organic Chemistry and I've been to many conferences as well. I did not meet any person who stutters on the conference though, but but we had a one postdoc, who had a mild stutter and his presentations were hard for him... Nevertheless he was very talkative and tried to engage in every conversation. So people like us are there, but not many, unfortunatelly. I have been pretty down with my stuttering recently, because it worsened after I had covid, and all the covid situation was just detrimental for my speech. I have to say, that I don't practice at all to improve my speech, because I realized, that it is not worth it. I mean, why to invest such an incredible amount of time for a tiny improvement ? The best is to just not care about it and just speak and stutter. Of course I practise the presentations that I prepared, but thats for the content I will speak about, not for the actuall speech. Somebody suggested here to read aloud daily. That did literally nothing for me, and only worsened my speech because I was paying more attention to my fluency. Now I teach a seminar which I though I would never be able to do, but IDK, I just do it and it is ok. Sometimes it is hard especially when I have bad days, but some days are ok, and I feel good about them. I also feel I do a lot for my research group, have a lot of papers, and stutter on top of it, how wonderfull xD.

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Causes & VariabilityIdentity & DisabilityCommunity & Support

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Severity & FluctuationAcceptance & PridePersonal StoriesSituational Variability

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