commentr/StutterJuly 9, 2024

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Wow! Can I commiserate! I was totally fluent for the previous 5 years, and then boom! Now I identify as a stutterer again. I don't even know why this thing is such a terrible label because I'm 77, and had stuttered from the age of 5. By now you'd think I'd accommodated this label. Even now as a mild, random, stutterer, I internally recognize myself as a stutterer and it is soul-destroying to me. I’ve had a pretty good life, I was married to a very wonderful professional man for 54 years who proudly presented me socially in every situation. Just realizing the stigma and judgment caused by this remains damaging. I get all of my fellow stutterers’ pain

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Identity & DisabilityCauses & Variability

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Identity & Self-PerceptionAcceptance & PrideStigma & BullyingSeverity & Fluctuation