commentr/StutterSeptember 28, 2021

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I also don’t think this photo is offensive. Maybe I just don’t get the context of the game, but everybody has disfluencies. It is true that people have dysfluencies during strong emotions. This isn’t necessarily referring to people like us in this subreddit that actually struggle with being self conscious about our stuttering. John Harrison, an author that stuttered for many years coined the word “bobulating” to describe when the average, everyday person has disfluencies during confusion or strong emotions. While “stuttering” is what an unselfconscious child does. And “blocking” is what adults that are self conscious about their stuttering do as a secondary behavior to avoid stuttering. It seems to me like this dragon is likely “bobulating”, so this post isn’t making fun of those in this subreddit. So I think you have nothing to worry about except for people potentially comparing this type of stuttering to yours, in which they probably won’t because I doubt that many people play this game (I’ve never played it) or would remember this part of the game The creators of the game are likely trying to show the internal feelings of the dragon and use the dysfluencies to do that, which to me achieves that goal. Everybody has the right to stutter, why can’t the dragon stutter? Though I would understand your frustration if they first made the dragon seem stupid then made him stutter...

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MetaIdentity & Disability

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Not About StutteringMedicalization / Neurodiversity