postr/StutterAugust 10, 2022

Do you feel as if your awkwardness is purely due to your stutter?

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Do you feel as if your awkwardness is purely due to your stutter? **I feel that if I became fluent overnight I'd stop being awkward within a few weeks of socialising.** A while back I was hanging out with someone I WAS acquaintances with and in the middle of someone's speech I wanted to make a quick remark but after the first word my speech just completely stopped and I couldn't finish off my sentence. It definitely created some awkwardness between us and a few other similar things happened after, where I couldn't say a whole sentence but only a word or two, which sounded extremely odd out of context. I saw him again recently and he was avoiding me when I came to his table to say hi. [View Poll](https://www.reddit.com/poll/wl2uzo)

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Emotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability

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Anxiety & Social JudgmentAuthenticity vs. Masking