commentr/StutterJanuary 7, 2021

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I've stuttered ever since I remember I could talk. I was in a speech therapy program briefly when I was in kindergarten. But they mostly focused on kids with a lisp. They took me out because they claimed I stopped. But I started again and they never took me back into that program. Flash forward to 8th grade I got called on to read aloud in class and broke down I cried and laughed and just repeated the words "no" and "you physically can't force me" things like that. I went home a cried to my mom about what had happened. I was put in speech therapy periodically until I graduated. In some sessions I would cry because I honestly didn't believe the therapists were there to help me, they would always talk about their schedules and home life's but we weren't talking about how stuttering made me feel or how it effects me. So I guess that's why I never tried it again

Themes

Therapy & ProfessionalEmotional Experience

Subthemes

Therapy ExperiencesShame & EmbarrassmentSadness & Hopelessness