commentr/StutterJune 4, 2025

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This isn’t gonna be verbal abuse or as bad as you asked for but here’s my story: I’ve been bullied my entire life for my stutter and my parents and family always have my back but at the same time they’ve never realized they were also making my feelings about my stutter worse as I got older. Other people in my family had childhood stutters but they were able to grow out of it or be “cured” by speech therapy if curing a stutter is even real idk but that’s what they say to me. But I never grew out of mine and anytime I have really bad days with it, I break down and will rant about it to my family or when someone is rude to me about it I’ll tell my family about the situation. However my family’s response is always that I can stop my stutter, that if I do what they did I would be cured of my stutter. But I’ve done it all. I’ve done all the methods and none of them ever help me. And now as an adult I’ve been told I’ll have it forever by speech therapists and my family all say I could have grown out of it but I didn’t try hard enough and that’s why I still have it. They make me feel like my stutter is my fault and that I can’t be embarrassed or anything about it because I could get rid of it easily even though no amount of speech therapy or techniques have ever truly helped me. And I try I really try so hard to use the methods I’ve been taught to help it. I’ll always appreciate my family for standing up for me because they would do that. If they knew someone was being mean to me as a kid they would always make sure that person never did it again. But I wish they’d stop making me feel like I stutter because I’m not good enough to stop it like they were. It’s like a back handed narcissistic response they’ve given me my whole life and it makes me feel like my feelings towards my stutter aren’t valid. But I’m happy that as an adult now I’ve grown to accept my stutter and I love who I am. God gave me the stutter and He did it for a reason to help make me stronger through the struggles and He loves me for me and that’s all that matters.

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Causes & VariabilityCommunity & SupportEmotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability

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Genetic & Family FactorsTrauma & PsychologicalValidation & EmpathyShame & EmbarrassmentIdentity & Self-PerceptionAcceptance & Pride