postr/StutterOctober 25, 2018

Stutter forces me to be an introvert

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Stutter forces me to be an introvert When I was a kid and my stutter wasn’t too bad I was very outgoing and happy. I would make a lot of friends I would never hesitate to approach somebody new and I was just overall very charismatic and eloquent even. But then a lot of traumatizing shit happened to me and it all just piled up and I fell under its weight. When I was 14 I got diagnosed with depression. And now at 17 I’m wishing to die every day. I wanna kill myself. And it’s mainly because of my stutter. I love talking to people I love being around people and laughing with them but my stutter and my low self-esteem won’t let me talk to them. Every dialogue is a nightmare. I can’t use certain words so I have to change them to something similar but in the end it doesn’t make any fucking sense and I sound like a complete weirdo. I don’t have any friends. I really wanna be around people and have many friends but I know I’m just a burden. No one actually cares about what I have to say. Nobody respects me. I’m useless in this world. I just wanna die. I’ve been holding on for way too long.

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Causes & VariabilityEmotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability

Subthemes

Trauma & PsychologicalSeverity & FluctuationShame & EmbarrassmentSadness & HopelessnessHelplessness & AgencyIdentity & Self-Perception

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