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postr/StutterFeb 16, 2024
30 points

Heavily mocked by a taxi driver

Heavily mocked by a taxi driver I just don't care anymore. Can't feel anything, good or bad. Life is just a bad joke....

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Shame & EmbarrassmentFrustration & AngerStigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterFeb 15, 2024
1 points

In that little video clip--the kid is sort of chubby.......you could always hurl an insult back to him "you gotta problem fatty---mine in stuttering--your fat!"...

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commentr/StutterFeb 15, 2024
1 points

If I had the nerve as I am a stutter person : Id smack the person upside the head giving me those mean eyes and say "dont look at me like that stupid!"...

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commentr/StutterFeb 15, 2024
1 points

No. It's shameful. Also we should care because we live in a society, not in wilderness. Try anything you can in order to reduce your stuttering. It's not a thing to be proud of....

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commentr/StutterFeb 15, 2024
2 points

So even though her speech has always been advanced, It’s still considered normal? I just want to be proactive, if she needs to see a speech therapist I just want to be ahead of the game! Kids can be e...

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Early Concern & OnsetAnxiety & Social JudgmentStigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterFeb 15, 2024
4 points

39. It doesn't bother me for more than a moment or two. People will do whatever they will do. I can't control that. It's a good way of revealing what kind of person you are dealing with. People who lo...

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Acceptance & PrideStigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterFeb 15, 2024
2 points

I can give children the benefit of the doubt to an extent. Adults' reactions are usually just an unfortunate side effect of their own self consciousness at not knowing how to interact with an unfamili...

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commentr/StutterFeb 15, 2024
9 points

53…. Yep. If someone makes fun of me, I will call them out. Yes, I have stuttered my entire life and usually only children make fun of my stutter....

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commentr/StutterFeb 15, 2024
16 points

Aye. I am 37 and I can't give two shits what people think anymore. I do encounter snide remarks or a suppressed laugh here and there, but I just look past that and talk. If they can't be bothered to l...

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commentr/StutterFeb 15, 2024
5 points

Oh yeah. Now when someone laughs or makes fun of it, it doesn't bother me anymore because I'm used to it...

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Acceptance & PrideStigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterFeb 15, 2024
2 points

i will never mock someone stutter, its your username thats why i used it......

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commentr/StutterFeb 15, 2024
1 points

I remember basically getting gang banged by 4 DIs my first day in my platoon because I started stuttering when we were sounding off, they were like “scream out your face”😂😂...

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commentr/StutterFeb 15, 2024
1 points

I went in when I was 21, it wasn’t really that hard but my stutter just made it so much worse, I still have nightmares about it haha, kind recluses my self from life after that lol, nothing but failur...

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commentr/StutterFeb 15, 2024
1 points

I have big relation to what you’ve went through and I am to experience it tomorrow, a painful presentation, the mockery and disgust pointed just as you said. I don’t mean to speak of negativity but we...

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commentr/StutterFeb 14, 2024
3 points

I still have dreams of fire watch , it was horrible I couldn’t even get the first sentence out, my DI asked how i even got thru Melps that I was mentally retarted that I couldn’t even talk, that did i...

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commentr/StutterFeb 14, 2024
2 points

Yeah, I remember I stuttered a lot in high school. Most of the teachers went out of their way to be kinder and more compassionate, even letting me forego the presentation all together (but I would be ...

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postr/StutterFeb 14, 2024
14 points

21M, this is my story living with a stutter

21M, this is my story living with a stutter I started stuttering at age 5, I don’t even remember stuttering back then. The only reason I know I did, is because my mom told me I did. I noticed it when ...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Experiential AssociationStress & Fight/FlightAnxiety & Social Judgment+3 more
commentr/StutterFeb 14, 2024
2 points

BTW, I think the teacher should have stepped in, especially if he knew you stuttered before you spoke. He might have suggested some alternative assignment. He or she should have used it for a teaching...

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commentr/StutterFeb 14, 2024
2 points

Hey man, I'm sorry you've had some tough experiences. You deserve to be heard whether you hardly stutter at all or stutter on every word! I know it's hard to feel that when it seems like others aroun...

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commentr/StutterFeb 14, 2024
6 points

You had every reason to be upset. The only excuse for their awful behavior might have been their age but even mature adults often lose it when confronted by a stutterer. As a 77-year-old PWS, I've had...

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