commentr/StutterJanuary 9, 2020

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To be realistic for a moment - sentences are never guaranteed to be perfect, regardless of a stutter or not. Communication is not about creating a perfect package and then sending it off in the same pristine state. Communication is about _performance_, and no amount of thinking things through in advance is going to guarantee that you deliver that which you imagine. But that's not really a problem - we live in performance, and as such, we should expect the world to show us what will actually happen. We can acquire some degree of mastery in expression, of course. And in our case, this can certainly be offset by an onset of stutter. That's probably why it's very likely that we'll arrive at the conclusion that our stutter is ruining this perfect thing we wanted to deliver. However, everyone is in principle subject to the same uncertainty. Whether or not we manage to pull through anyway will depend on how the communcation went - whether our performance achieved more or less the desired result. This is something we can do, even if we stutter. We can make ourselves understood, just like everyone else. And _that_ is what it be like.

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Causes & VariabilityIdentity & Disability

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Propositionality & WeightSeverity & FluctuationAuthenticity vs. Masking