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postr/StutterMay 30, 2024
16 points

Your earliest memory of stuttering and realizing you were different?

Your earliest memory of stuttering and realizing you were different? One of my earliest memories is when a cousin of mine (she was 7) asked why I spoke a different language. Another is when I was in a...

Identity & DisabilitySchool & Work
Stigma & BullyingSchool & Academic Life
commentr/StutterMay 30, 2024
3 points

Wow! I imagine your professor was trying to make it seem like your stutter didn't have to be a problem, but failed to recognise that it was a problem for you, thereby invalidating your experience, whi...

Community & SupportIdentity & Disability
Validation & EmpathyStigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterMay 30, 2024
3 points

Ohh alright. But other than personal conversations based on the interest of individual people, I believe there is a need to talk about stammering and spread awareness about it, because it is completel...

Identity & DisabilityCoping & AdvocacyCommunity & Support
Stigma & BullyingSelf-Advocacy & BoundariesPersonal Stories
commentr/StutterMay 29, 2024
7 points

Exactly I feel you 100% l, people keep suggesting “embracing it” and they don’t realise as severe stutterers how marginalised we are. They always wanna make it look like it’s our fault...

Identity & Disability
Identity & Self-PerceptionStigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterMay 29, 2024
2 points

Public schools are notorious for being a free-for-all mess of an educational experience, basically you thrown into a place with another 2000 kids with almost zero adult supervision. You dont know how ...

Identity & DisabilitySchool & Work
Stigma & BullyingSchool & Academic Life
commentr/StutterMay 29, 2024
1 points

My stutter was very mild and I still got bullied all 12 years of school. My brother’s stutter is severe and he got bullied as well but got a good group of friends who stuck up for him and he became on...

Identity & DisabilityCoping & Advocacy
Stigma & BullyingSelf-Advocacy & Boundaries
commentr/StutterMay 29, 2024
1 points

For one I always hated popcorn reading & especially where the teacher would start with one student then we go from front to back of classroom, that made the anxiety worse knowing it’s almost my time t...

Emotional ExperienceSchool & WorkIdentity & Disability
Anxiety & Social JudgmentSchool & Academic LifeStigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterMay 29, 2024
1 points

Terrible. I also had an overbite (then braces) and glasses. By the time I got to high school, I just stopped talking completely....

Identity & DisabilitySchool & Work
Stigma & BullyingSchool & Academic Life
commentr/StutterMay 29, 2024
9 points

My 3rd grade teacher accused me of faking stuttering for attention. Some people should not be trusted with kids!...

Identity & Disability
Stigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterMay 29, 2024
2 points

I had a fairly ok time with peers in high school and university. My parents, however, treated me as an embarrassment to them. Fortunately I married a wonderful professional man who always proudly pre...

Identity & DisabilitySocial & Relationships
Stigma & BullyingFamily Support & Conflict
commentr/StutterMay 29, 2024
2 points

Absolutely terrible in elementary school. I got teased and bullied so bad. I was suicidal at one point. High school was better but still hard. University was great, no bullying....

Identity & DisabilityEmotional Experience
Stigma & BullyingSuicidal Ideation & High Distress
commentr/StutterMay 29, 2024
6 points

I was physically attacked and stomped down by around 10 lads simply because I stuttered, multiple times. Made me go the gym and wrestling classes and it stopped after I WWE slammed a dude in the chang...

Identity & DisabilityCauses & Variability
Stigma & BullyingStress & Fight/Flight
commentr/StutterMay 29, 2024
4 points

Relentless bullying. My stutter improved no end post graduation. Go figure....

Identity & Disability
Stigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterMay 29, 2024
9 points

I’m still a teenager, just finished a year of high school. Elementary school: Honestly wasn’t that bad, I was able to talk and communicate without getting teased or made fun of it because of it. I w...

School & WorkIdentity & DisabilityAnticipation & Avoidance
School & Academic LifeStigma & BullyingAvoidance & Substitution+1 more
commentr/StutterMay 29, 2024
21 points

Hell yeah. Kids can be mean. The thing I hated more though was when teachers would give me the stares. You’d think an adult would know what a speech impediment was. I vividly remember one HS teacher c...

Identity & DisabilityEmotional ExperienceAnticipation & Avoidance
Stigma & BullyingShame & EmbarrassmentAnxiety & Social Judgment+1 more
commentr/StutterMay 29, 2024
1 points

Yes, I've heard this one before. These people don't seem to comprehend what's actually going on so fuck them. Don't waste your time trying to explain anything....

Identity & Disability
Stigma & Bullying
postr/StutterMay 29, 2024
16 points

How was your experience in school growing up?

How was your experience in school growing up? I am curious to know about how your experiences were growing up in school. I am surprised that i hardly see this topic talked about on this sub. Were you...

Identity & DisabilitySchool & WorkSocial & Relationships
Stigma & BullyingSchool & Academic LifeDating & Romance
commentr/StutterMay 28, 2024
1 points

I’m not sure, I do feel like I’m treated lower as a human being sometimes, and feel like I’m taken less seriously. There’s been times where I felt like a teacher was treating me like I was a little ki...

Emotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Anxiety & Social JudgmentStigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterMay 28, 2024
1 points

The person had said that people with stutter might be lowlifes or depressed of something so that’s why I included that in the post, does that make sense?...

Emotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Sadness & HopelessnessStigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterMay 28, 2024
1 points

What are u talking ab, I’m saying we ARENT. Most ppl think stutters are depressed and have no friends...

Identity & DisabilityEmotional Experience
Stigma & BullyingSadness & Hopelessness