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Stuttering just makes me mad Actually, it’s not the stuttering that makes me mad. It’s society. Why do we have to suffer over this? We’re not in physical pain. We’re not physically disabled. We can talk, it just takes longer sometimes. Imagine if there was no social stigma at all! It’s possible to imagine. If someone has a coughing fit in the middle of a sentence, and people have to wait until it’s over, it’s not super embarrassing. Also I work with people with severe cognitive disabilities, and some of them stutter pretty severely, but when they stutter it’s not embarrassing for anyone because they don’t have the cognitive capacity to be aware of or embarrassed about something like that. Everyone just waits until they’re done and there’s no tension. So it’s not like stuttering is inherently embarrassing in and of itself….. We are all just human, WHY does it have to be like this? It really is the biggest mystery to me. Personally I’ve gotten to the point where I’m not embarrassed or ashamed by it anymore, in general. I’ve written about how I did it, on this sub. But it took so much work to get there. And so many people are suffering still. We can’t change society but we can try to change ourselves. It’s so d*mn hard though! When I realized that it was all a social disability, and that if I wasn’t embarrassed at all, then the problem would go away, I set about making that a reality for myself. But I don’t know how to help others.