commentr/StutterNovember 10, 2024

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If what you say about society is true why does it not bear fruit for all stutterers?  The claim from OP is that society judges based on their fluency and favors articulate communication, where is the evidence besides beyond deep rooted feelings?  Where is the statistics that society holds stutterers down rather than a person's own fear as one example.   Let's take a thought experiment where society feels bad for stutterers or other disabilities, roots for them and helps or choses them not based on qualifications but based on humanity among other things.  So the opposite of judging us poorly but rather judging us as caring and preservering.  We can argue in this thought experiment the stutter is still bothersome but not because of society.  So how is this thought experiment any less valid than the OP?  Disparaging isn't the issue, it's a mentality, an excuse and if it were true I present the question how society excepts some stutterers over fluent people?  How society excepts those with flaws over fluent people if they deem us inferior?  We are dying, no one is perfect and if our obsession is with social hierarchy, how in the world do some stutterers get passed such an "obsession" over fluent people.  If it was such an obsession, how did Biden get past the others?  Wouldn't they be obsessed over it (rather than his age and overall decline, remember the younger him won in election contests, so where was the obsession you speak of)?  Why did the people not go against the king who stuttered during war time?   I think it's a subscribed mentality that hasn't held stutterers back at the highest level.  Everyone feels like everyone is judging them, whether they stutter or not.  But feelings is not enough to base your premise on.  Your own examples don't hold weight.  There are lawyers in court who stutter and win.  Do their ratios of wins to losses stand out anymore than fluent peoples?  In interrogations, the cops have felt bad for me when i stuttered.  I never was in an integration room but one of heavier stuttering moments is getting pulled over.  I was also talking to a judge about my dad who heard me out with sincerity and they all were greatful and took my worries seriously.  Lastly, Idk if I misunderstood the last sentence but if you're saying my stutter is less in sales, that couldn't be further from the truth.  I couldn't even say my name again in sales after decades of not having an issue with it.  The obsession we think they have didn't materialize because they still heard me out, where happy I came, and I sold more than fluent counterparts if not similar with a far heavier stutter than when I am nonchalant and not selling.  Where was the societal obsession that, in your own words, "society don't have a place for people like us to thrive."  And yet in such a supposed obsessed society, disfluent people are thriving.  So let me ask you how?  

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Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability

Subthemes

Avoidance & SubstitutionAnxiety & Social JudgmentHelplessness & AgencyIdentity & Self-Perception