commentr/StutterFebruary 12, 2024

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Thank you so much! This is my attempt to summarize your helpful interventions: * I implemented “gliding”: slowly gliding on the beginnings of words that cause you to stutter * Once you know which consonants cause stuttering, you will know to glide on them * Learn to not care what others think of me * I reached a point one day where I hit rock bottom in terms of how I felt about myself and had the following revelation. I began to think: “*well, if everyone thinks I’m a moron, so what? At least it can’t get any worse than this! Fine, I can’t speak for shit. I don’t care anymore what people think of me!*” * Once I stopped worrying about what other people thought of me, I was able to forgive myself, and then love myself, and that made almost all my teenage stress go away, and I began to feel much more confident * All I can promise is if you do nothing to help yourself the odds are very high it won’t go away, Good luck on your path to normal speech fluency

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Coping & AdvocacyIdentity & DisabilityAnticipation & Avoidance

Subthemes

Mindset shiftAcceptance & PrideAvoidance & Substitution

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perceived_judgment