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Do you consider your stutter a 'disability'?

Do you consider your stutter a 'disability'? I often refer to my stutter as a disability, but I've had people (who don't stutter) claim I was exaggerating. My stutter is debilitating and has ruined ab...

Isn’t a bi polar person just a normal person that occasionally has mood swings? Isn’t a depressed person just a normal person with uncontrollable sadness? Isn’t a person with a rheumatoid arthriti...

I dunno man. Out of thousands people who commit suicide everyday vast majority were fluent speakers. Being able to convert your ideas into air vibrations aka sounds does not guarantee a perfect life. ...

He doesn’t need to work on his fluency because he isn’t articulating words with his mouth. He’s just making a noise. I bet when you bang your finger, you still say ouch or make some other noise. Or pe...

The first issue here is viewing stuttering as a problem that needs to be overcome...

Your comment needs to be made into a thread! I have come from not being able to even utter my name to giving hundreds of public speeches and it all became possible because I always refuse to accept m...

No worries. We’re definitely on the same page. I agree those are different points you said above. I think the point of the article isn’t to define stuttering as something, just to challenge how we tra...

>It was thrilling to meet others who talked like me, and who were successful, kind, and good-looking. It was also the first time I heard anyone describe **stuttering as a gift**. Hm, this seems to...

We are on the same page. I too like the way it made me think of stuttering. The UAE stuttering association considers stuttering an accent rather than a disability. And that is the crux of what he is g...

Excellent points. I agree completely re your #1 point. There is certainly a line where acceptance can be/should be expected by all parties. I read this more that the needle should be somewhere in the ...

This is a very interesting article and wonderfully worded opinion piece. What the writer lacks in evidence based research, he makes up for in poignant anecdotes. I trust his motives are for the best...

Joker (spoilers if you haven’t seen it)

Joker (spoilers if you haven’t seen it) For those of you who haven’t seen it, the film is amazing on so many fronts. But, one of the things that struck me the strongest was how the film is a fantastic...

i don’t think stuttering can be considered a disability because you are a normal person who just happens to trip up on words, it’s similar to how individuals with lisps are not considered disabled....

I guess. In high school, speech therapy fell under the special ed services. So I was technically a special ed student. Not trying to disparage anyone, it was just a sore point considering I was an ...

I'd say yeah - it does the things a disability does, it others people and it allows barriers to be put up in someone's way. Legally I'm not too sure, but culturally yeah...

bro i always it is for two reasons 1. confusion. i tell people i have a disability and they’re like wOw wHat iS iT (this kinda just for the clout) 2. it’s a disadvantage. my stutter puts me behind oth...

That's not how it works. You don't have to stutter in front of a speech therapist in order to benefit from speech therapy. You're going there to learn methods and techniques for managing and maintenan...

I chose to speak to raise awareness for stuttering. The class I spoke in was literally “Fluency Disorders” so. The professor wanted me to show the future SLPs who we are...

We do receive some instruction on coumseling, but ultimately, that's not our area of expertise, so we can't really treat the anxiety aspect directly. I do not stutter but have strughled with low self...

That "dealing with stuttering" and "being as fluent as possible" are not the same thing. A lot of students (and practicing SLPs, for that matter) equate these two experiences. Hearing first-hand abou...