commentr/StutterMarch 10, 2025

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Such a great question. I'll take it a step further and say that what they are advocating for is an admission that those researchers have no idea what to do. They're all out of ideas, while simultaneously choosing to ignore research that involve brain mechanisms that we can address that lead to fluency. I tell you what though, I accept the brain mechanisms that are involved in stuttering. I don't accept my stutter as a normal mode of being. I accept that there are things going on in the brain that lead to stuttering that differ from someone who doesn't stutter, and I acknowledge that there are answers out there to address these mechanisms. I am grateful that there are researchers doing great work, and I am optimistic that we will be able to address these mechanisms with better precision in the future. I do not want my future children to stutter and the only answer I have for him/her is to just "accept it". No. That's just not good enough. We deserve better, and our children, or future children, deserve better.

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Identity & DisabilityCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience

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Acceptance & PrideNeurological & BrainHope & Motivation