postr/StutterApril 11, 2023

Serious questions

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Serious questions I understand that I need to 1000% accept my stutter and realize that it's ok to stutter, In order to make my speech more fluent. But all that accepting and optimism falls face flat on the floor, when we get put in reality. For example if I've been learning a foreign language for years, and I go to speak it, But I cant string together a simple sentence due to my stutter? Or I cant get into the military if I wanted too, because of how bad I stutter? I cant do alot of things i wanted to do because i stutter. Guys stuttering isnt some wall I'm setting up in my mind I am actually between a wall of physical speech speed. We stutterers are like tortoises and the fluent people are like the flash. How do I get over everything I cant do and everyone I cant connect with simply because I stutter?

Themes

Identity & DisabilityEmotional ExperienceSchool & Work

Subthemes

Acceptance & PrideHelplessness & AgencyEmployment & CareerAnxiety & Social JudgmentIdentity & Self-Perception