postr/StutterOctober 13, 2020

Does anyone feel like their vocabulary is hindered by their stutter?

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Does anyone feel like their vocabulary is hindered by their stutter? I don’t mean just words you use when speaking, I mean even thinking to yourself or in a written context. I come across words all the time that I don’t use because I can’t say them. I manage my stutter pretty well and it’s mostly unnoticeable, because I have in my head a very good filter for what words I can and can’t say as they come out of my mouth. But when it comes to studying or writing essays in uni, I think sometimes that same filter is still switched on. A big issue with me is words beginning with “d”. This morning I was reading and came across “deluded”. Such a great word that I would never use, I’d use another description, maybe even multiple words that can be summed up with that one. And it’s not that I don’t know the word. It just comes up so little in my own vocabulary that when I hear it, it feels alien. And this happens a lot with lots of different words. And I do have a little fear it makes me sound less educated to university peers or tutors. Does anyone feel the same way?

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Anticipation & AvoidanceIdentity & Disability

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Avoidance & SubstitutionIdentity & Self-Perception