postr/StutterMay 3, 2020

Another repressed memory I just remembered from middle school.

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Another repressed memory I just remembered from middle school. This shit is funny. Back in geography class, in 6th grade, the teacher made us read aloud from the textbook. When it was my turn, one of the sentences was something like "The geographers walked into the forest..." I read it like this: "The geographers walked into the- ...into the-" I knew if I attempted the word "forest", I would’ve gone "fffFF! FFFFF! So to avoid that I simply just stopped in my tracks. The teacher asked me right there "You don’t know the word forest?" The whole class and teacher were snickering and literally thought I didn’t know the word forest... FUN TIMES!

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Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience

Subthemes

Anticipating StutteringFeared Words & NamesAvoidance & SubstitutionShame & Embarrassment

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