commentr/StutterJuly 23, 2021

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I don’t get stuck in certain specific consonants all the time, but just generally I find that rephrasing things when you can sense a stutter coming on sometimes helps. Or even after it’s onset, just repeating yourself in a different way so that the rhythm ends up on another word, or repeating yourself in a ‘fake’ voice really quickly after the stutter, sometimes people don’t even realize it happened, It’s a kind of misdirection. Like when I was in high school, people would tease me because I would always put the word ‘the’ in front of a persons name. Like if I was trying to say, ‘yesterday I hung out with Jordan’, I would end up saying ‘yesterday I hung out with the Jordan’. I would realize that adding the ‘the’ would make it easy to say. And that happened with a lot of words. But I would always rather they made fun of me for that than the actual stutter. So it maybe led to a lot of idiosyncratic type of speech habits.

Themes

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience

Subthemes

Avoidance & SubstitutionShame & Embarrassment