commentr/StutterJune 1, 2018

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I've never been a big fan of the initialisms myself. I respect that people prefer them, and if someone wants me to use them in conversation with them, sure, I will. They just don't naturally fit into my personal vocabulary. I say I stutter. Same way I say I walk, I breathe, I talk. I am not "a breather", I am not "a stutterer", but I do breathe. I also read AWS as Amazon Web Services, but maybe most people don't. I dunno. That being said, I kinda do use that sort of language a bit. If I had to talk about people that stutter, I'd say people who stutter. That person stutters, that person stutters, those people stutter. They are people who stutter, you know? Or a kid who stutters, an adult who stutters, a dude over there who stutters... For context here, my pretty bad blocking stutter, I think I've been lucky and not had to deal with too many direct social consequences for it, so other people who do feel depersonified because of their stutter, I could definitely see how it could be useful to have exact identity-connected phrases like PWS, AWS, and CWS. I dunno. I'm definitely open to changing my own language if I've been harming people by saying things as I do.

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Identity & DisabilitySocial & Relationships

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Identity & Self-PerceptionDisclosure & Telling Others