postr/StutterNovember 13, 2025

I feel dumber than before

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I feel dumber than before It is often said that if you are intelligent or cultured, it shows in your language, but... what if the other way around also works? I'm not saying that if you're stupid you talk like you're intelligent because you simply can't, but, I was smarter as a child than the others, I hardly spoke by the way, and I stutter since I started talking more, we know that we substitute words and practically change our language to what we really want to say, and I always say less than what I want, anyway that's how common people talk, right? The problem is that I feel more and more stupid and I feel that it is because of my language, I feel that language also affects my way of thinking, in the sense of information processing, just like my speech, my thinking stutters... I feel less agile and slower every time... Has the same thing happened to anyone?

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Anticipation & AvoidanceIdentity & Disability

Subthemes

Avoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & MonitoringIdentity & Self-Perception

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propositionality