The first time i was aware of my stuttering was when ANOTHER kid noticed it
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The first time i was aware of my stuttering was when ANOTHER kid noticed it It is a very lucid memory: I was at class with my classmates (i was 6 years old, as the other kids). It was the last 10 minutes of the last class of that day before going home. I was located in the second class row, very close to the teacher. ​ The teacher was making some questions and we had to answer them out loud voluntarily. I remember that i was very active at class and used to answer and participate a lot. The thing is that the teacher made a certain question and i raised my hand to answer it. I was absolutely sure about the answer. When the teacher yield me the word, i answered but i stuttered a little, repeating the first sylabe of the sentence like 2 or 3 times. But i was happy with my answer, in fact i remember that the teacher said "that´s right". I don´t even remember the question itslef but i remember i felt proud of myself. But after that, one kid raised his hand and asked literally "Mr Lucas, why does Betelgeuse repeat his words sometimes". (From this sentence i deduce that i already stuttered before but i wasn´t aware). Mr Lucas, a very pedagocial man, simply said "it is because he sometimes get nervous" and he said it in a tone that he played down the issue, and probably nor of those kids thought about it more than 10 seconds. But the virus was already inside me. from that day, i understood that my speech characteristic was not normal and afterwards i learned that it caused mockery. ​ This indicates me that we stutterers are not the problem, but the society is. I don´t know when was the first time in history that some miserable man laughed at someone just for having and impediment, but since that day stuttering is related with insecurity, weakness, silliness, and people laugh at that, i don´t even know why. There are a lot of misconceptions about this condition. I sometimes wonder why people doesn´t laugh at mute persons but they do at stutterers. Why doesn´t they understand that stammering is a parcial muteness? They shouldn´t expect that we stutters can talk normally, at least in most situations, as you shouldn´t expect a lame man to get up the chair and run.