postr/StutterJanuary 5, 2025

Have you also decided to stop talking?

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Have you also decided to stop talking? I feel like no one understands me. I'm embarrassed to stutter and I feel like as long as I stutter I won't be able to express myself the way I want to. My silence is expressed, for example, in class when I don't even ask to go to the bathroom out of shame that it would take me a long time to make that request. When I have a question, I would rather remain silent and search for an answer on Google than embarrass myself in front of everyone. I wish I didn't care about anyone.

Themes

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience

Subthemes

Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentShame & EmbarrassmentHelplessness & Agency

Codes (2)

public_speakingrepeating_oneself