commentr/StutterMarch 18, 2016

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Thanks for your comments! In the past I would ask teachers if I could do verbal/oral assignments 1 on 1 and one time I was allowed to make a documentary (in which I spoke fairly monotonously and tried my best to edit my stutter out). I eventually just started speaking up in class (eventually being much more recently) and sometimes I would stutter and sometimes I'd have an easier time but I just went with it. When asked to read about a year ago I just couldn't do it because I saw it coming and I built it up in my head. I think it's good to let teachers know you have a stutter and what your comfort level is and try to write words on the board when you struggle with them. Your stutter might be out of your control but at least you know you're in control of the room. I only started keto this week. I lost a lot of the weight by eating a balanced diet and when I fell off from that and started eating worse I did feel a HUGE difference in my speech (in a bad way). I did go to speech therapy as a kid and it wasn't a bad experience but I don't think it helped at all. I wish they had just told me to learn to be comfortable with it rather than find ways to hide it. I have so many things I do to hide it now like pretending I can't remember a word or a name ("what's it called?") or saying umm or like. I kind of wish I never developed those habits and that there was more positivity or role models around to just help me be relaxed about it instead it was just speech therapists giving me bad advice and porky pig. I definitely will be posting more vlogs, probably weekly for now and they'll be a little more keto focused when I start doing meal prep in about 3 weeks.

Themes

Anticipation & AvoidanceIdentity & Disability

Subthemes

Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentAcceptance & Pride

Codes (2)

public_speakingreading_aloud