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commentr/StutterOct 12, 2015
1 points

Yea man, your life sucks. Worst possible outcome. I mean, there are people out there whose skin hurts and peels on touch, people who don't have any limbs at all and God knows what else but it's nothin...

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commentr/StutterOct 12, 2015
1 points

Many people will laugh at you for stuttering throughout your life. If I were you I would learn to laugh with them. ...

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commentr/StutterOct 12, 2015
2 points

> For some people showing stuttering is the worst thing in the world and anything is better, even sounding airheaded. Yeah, exactly. I used to feel the same until I saw it in practice, and then I...

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commentr/StutterOct 12, 2015
1 points

You've got your identity so wrapped up in being a unjust victim that you cling to it as hard as you can. But does it do you any good. Many of us here have severe stutters, but we also hold jobs, make ...

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commentr/StutterOct 12, 2015
1 points

I stutter and I find it funny. I'm still not comfortable with my stutter but ive worked a long time not to be ashamed of it anymore. Also why is it embarrassing? it's something we've all done. We don...

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commentr/StutterOct 12, 2015
2 points

This is an excellent post, thanks for writing. Funny, I quit using most interjections like "um" and "like" but actually is one of my go-to words. Never really classified it as an interjection but I th...

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commentr/StutterOct 12, 2015
1 points

Well that's strange, I stutter, and I don't find it insulting. I actually find it quite funny. Here's an idea, rather than getting offended or feeling insulted by every little thing, grow the fuck u...

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commentr/StutterOct 12, 2015
1 points

I've literally only met one other stutterer in my entire life and this was 15 years ago....

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commentr/StutterOct 12, 2015
1 points

Eeeh, do you have the time? haha Through my whole life al also have pws around me. Don't ask why, I don't know, haha. But they were there. In class, a few friends later in life. Co workers. I like it...

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commentr/StutterOct 12, 2015
2 points

If he is happy with it... okay then. But I think that you accepted your stutter much more then him. Maybe I'm wrong about that though. I know that I'm in the past also used much more of 'these' words...

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commentr/StutterOct 12, 2015
2 points

Stop....

commentr/StutterOct 12, 2015
2 points

Yeah, the one with all the mommy issues, too. Yikes. ...

commentr/StutterOct 12, 2015
2 points

> it works for him, and he's finding some measure of success, so good for him. Like I said. Even though he's been a bit of a dick to me about it, and it'd be super satisfying to drop him down a pe...

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commentr/StutterOct 12, 2015
3 points

Same guy who has been posting completely negative and entirely subjective blanket statements about stuttering the last couple of weeks? ...

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commentr/StutterOct 12, 2015
1 points

It's cool you are a capable public speaker. Based on what you wrote in this post, my first thought is about time and you perceiving urgency. When speaking publicly, one-on-one, or formally, there is...

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commentr/StutterOct 12, 2015
1 points

At the end of the day the thing that matters is how he feels about himself. I often use "um" but I haven't found myself ever using a string of *likes* or *"actually"s*. They are all simply sentence po...

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commentr/StutterOct 12, 2015
2 points

I think I know whose alternate account this is, and it's a partial (and badly veiled) attempt at trolling, I believe. ...

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commentr/StutterOct 12, 2015
1 points

Oh man, I was so with you right up until the end. I'm so over the whole "just stop caring about anything and talk normal, it's not that hard" climate of this sub....

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commentr/StutterOct 12, 2015
1 points

I do not find it funny or insulting. I just think nothing of it....

commentr/StutterOct 12, 2015
1 points

I'm sure that we all know that stuttering is fairly uncommon. The official number is 1 in 100 adults stutter which isn't all that rare. There's no need to call us freaks because we're dis-fluent. That...

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