I really wish there was a clinical diagnosis/difference between "stuttering" and "severe stuttering" / Stutter Rant
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I really wish there was a clinical diagnosis/difference between "stuttering" and "severe stuttering" / Stutter Rant I'm sorry but when I hear someone say "millions of people stutter" I can't help myself but look at that person with some form of contempt. It not only happens in real life, but also happens on thsi exact subreddit. Theres a crystal clear difference between stuttering, moderate stuttering and severe/extreme stuttering. Hell there are even people on this sub asking "do I have a stutter" which I can't help but feel indirectly insulted by. It's obvious that most of us also know that we should go to speech therapy to help with our stutter or just entirely accept our stutter as it is, the thing is, accepting your stutter when you are an extremely neurotic person in general (someone more prone to things like mental illness/disorders) is practically impossible to do. Another big issue I have is not every person who stutters grows up in the same environment as another person who stutters. I personally have grown up in such an solitary lifestyle having no siblings, one helicopter parent who is constantly stressed, practically no outside family whom which I communicate on a regular basis with besides my parent's parents, flaky friends who are your friend when they want to be etc... and people will wonder why i'm so neurotic/dealing with people pisses me off and wondering why I am this insufferable lonely bastard, thats what happens when you are not only practically born lonely, but have a whole other disorder to basically make you even more lonely. We may be a community but for the love of god, we are all not the same/one singular entity and we should stop speaking as if we go through the same degree/intensity of stuttering.