postr/StutterAugust 16, 2024

Childhood was hell!!!

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Childhood was hell!!! One of the story of my childhood. Nobody likes me at school, classmates and even teachers because according to them I was just acting stuttering to get attention and to go through my oral tests (because many times they saw me speaking fluently while talking with friends) I was in 9th grade, we had supplementary reading, where all students read chapter one by one. My number came, my teacher make me stand and told "you are going to read fluently", I started reading with stuttering, she shouted "I said fluently" and then said in frkn of class that "I talked with his father and he told me this boy can sing fluently that means there is nothing wrong with his tongue", she told me you are not going anywhere before you finish your reading. The scene "I was reading with stuttering and tears in my eyes( literally crying in front of class), whole class was laughing" the bell rang, she told me to write this chapter three times as your punishment. Everybody knows when we sing or even speak alone we don't stutter. And yes they didn't know what is stuttering.

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Identity & DisabilityAnticipation & AvoidanceSchool & Work

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Stigma & BullyingAvoidance & SubstitutionSchool & Academic LifeFeared Words & Names