The "cure rejecting/Novelty trick hating" attitude of this subreddit has hurt me alot mentally and it should change.
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The "cure rejecting/Novelty trick hating" attitude of this subreddit has hurt me alot mentally and it should change. I was always hopeful of at least knowing I can one day reduce it to a point where it would not longer be an issue and i was succeeding at it too at one point in time. I learned alot of "Novelty Tricks" to fluently do alot of stuff that I couldn't before like say my name, my phone number, talk to people on the phone, talk to people in person, tell jokes etc. The novelty tricks seemed to have been doing it for me. Anyways I came to this subreddit looking for more techniques and although I did find some I mostly encountered alot of people telling me I'll never become fluent and that everything I was doing was just a "novelty trick" and it will fade away. It ruined my confident in those things and slowly destroyed my progress overtime. I can safely say those statements made my stutter worse then before and its now dug a hole so deep into my head of anxiety that I don't know if I'll ever beat it or be as fluent as I was before. I get where alot of people who say stuff like that come from, it helps them look at stutterering from a different angle, but at the same time they need to realize not everyone has the same stutter and these "Novelty Tricks" are godsends to some people and DO NOT fade away over time for many individuals as alot of people on here claim. I can honestly say if I never ever came to this subreddit and instead just saw a speech therapist I'd be much more fluent and happier. Anyways that was my rant. I feel this novelty trick hating attitude needs to change. Its not entirely factual and It doesn't really help pws. If someone thinks it works or it actually does work for them let them think of it as it is. The reduction in anxiety itself would yield tremendous results for them.