commentr/StutterApril 25, 2023
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I’d say he kind of fits into both the more negative camps I mentioned. He fits into the celebs who have overcome their stutter camp that I mentioned because he typically speaks fluently, and when he speaks about stuttering he tends to only talk about how he overcame it. Then for the “negative representation camp”, when he does stutter he often gets ridiculed by people and has let those people ridicule him by not owning his stutter ( saying outright that it’s his stutter), but desperately trying to cover it up. This is touched upon in Life on Delay by John Hendrickson btw, who I think is one of the only real positive representations of stutterers we have.
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Identity & Disability
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Identity & Self-PerceptionStigma & BullyingAuthenticity vs. Masking