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commentr/StutterJan 23, 2023
1 points

Instead of wishing we weren't born so we wouldn't have to be like this...we should have wished are parents didn't decide to kids!! We didn't ask to be born!!! We were born because our folks decided to...

Emotional ExperienceCauses & Variability
Sadness & HopelessnessHelplessness & AgencyTrauma & Psychological
commentr/StutterJan 23, 2023
7 points

Do you want to live like this, are you living like this just because of your stutter?...

Emotional Experience
Helplessness & Agency
postr/StutterJan 23, 2023
9 points

Should I drop this class that requires heavy participation and presentations?

Should I drop this class that requires heavy participation and presentations? This semester I have a class that requires heavy class participation and presentations. My stutter along with social anxie...

Emotional ExperienceSchool & Work
Anxiety & Social JudgmentSchool & Academic LifeHelplessness & Agency
postr/StutterJan 23, 2023
14 points

Anyone else just living like a robot?

Anyone else just living like a robot? Im broke as a joke. Dont even wanna work. Dont want to talk to people. I left my family my friends. I live in a car. I dont even care. Its like I have zero motiva...

Emotional ExperienceAnticipation & AvoidanceSocial & Relationships
Helplessness & AgencyHiding & ConcealmentLoneliness & Isolation
postr/StutterJan 21, 2023
32 points

do you ever lay in bed at night and think about how everyone can speak normally and you tell yourself “i could totally speak well too” with some momentary optimism, but then you remember that if that were true, it would have happened already?

do you ever lay in bed at night and think about how everyone can speak normally and you tell yourself “i could totally speak well too” with some momentary optimism, but then you remember that if that ...

Emotional ExperienceAnticipation & Avoidance
Helplessness & AgencyAnticipating Stuttering
commentr/StutterJan 20, 2023
1 points

100000% true. The amount of anxiety and fear the 'hope' gives is so much that at times the sheer act of living becomes something that requires so much energy. At least for me....

Emotional Experience
Anxiety & Social JudgmentSadness & HopelessnessHelplessness & Agency
commentr/StutterJan 18, 2023
1 points

Just live with it. We all have flaws. I used to stammer which I somehow won over. But I ALSO have a RARE orthopaedic condition in both my hands due to which I'm pretty much a normal looking disabled p...

Identity & DisabilityEmotional Experience
Acceptance & PrideHelplessness & AgencyStigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterJan 15, 2023
1 points

Yeah same. My dream would be living on a remote island with some girl I loved and just us. I can't do social settings anymore. It's just too much effort carefully crafting every sentence I say. And ev...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceSocial & Relationships
Avoidance & SubstitutionHelplessness & AgencyLoneliness & Isolation
commentr/StutterJan 15, 2023
1 points

i relate to this shit so much bro, sometimes im even thinking "Wait, am i actually retarded?" Cause i act so fucking weird around people, all anxious and constantly fucking up my words. Im taking a BA...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceSocial & Relationships
Avoidance & SubstitutionHelplessness & AgencyLoneliness & Isolation
commentr/StutterJan 13, 2023
2 points

Do you think reading aloud has helped you very much? My concern is that if I commit to that then it will help me read aloud but it won’t help me speak in conversational situations. I like the “fuck ...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceSchool & Work
Avoidance & SubstitutionHelplessness & AgencySchool & Academic Life+1 more
commentr/StutterJan 13, 2023
3 points

I have but knowing someone else out there is also suffering doesn’t make my situation feel any better. I had friends and girlfriends in high school and I was sorta popular. As I’ve gotten into my earl...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceSocial & Relationships
Feared Words & NamesHelplessness & AgencyDating & Romance+1 more
commentr/StutterJan 13, 2023
8 points

Nice of you but verbal communication just makes me feel like a piece of shit. On paper, I’m somewhat intelligent. Always had good grades and I enjoy reading and thinking about philosophy and stuff lik...

Emotional Experience
Shame & EmbarrassmentHelplessness & Agency
commentr/StutterJan 13, 2023
6 points

Well I was set on being a technical writer but now with ChatGPT coming around I feel like my career path isn’t going to even exist in 10 years. I know if I was an all-star programmer or something then...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceSchool & Work
Avoidance & SubstitutionHelplessness & AgencyEmployment & Career
commentr/StutterJan 13, 2023
1 points

Say fuck it, get a van, build it out, go be a ski bum in the winter and a climbing/hiking bum in the summer. I’m at the point where regular life feels futile because I can’t even say my fucking name. ...

Emotional Experience
Helplessness & AgencyHope & Motivation
commentr/StutterJan 12, 2023
1 points

I have a significant stutter and I got a phone based job I thought I could never get, and thought I bombed the interview but was told I did great. Did anyone else stop you from pursuing this dream? ...

Emotional ExperienceSchool & Work
Helplessness & AgencyEmployment & Career
commentr/StutterJan 12, 2023
16 points

People even on this subreddit have reporting completely bombing job interviews because they wouldn't get a single thing out and then still getting the job. Let them tell you no, don't reject yourself....

Emotional ExperienceSchool & Work
Helplessness & AgencyEmployment & Career
postr/StutterJan 12, 2023
16 points

Dream Crushed because of Stuttering

Dream Crushed because of Stuttering Just a little vent here… For a while now, my dream job was to work as an ASL interpreter. I love the deaf community, interacting using sign, and interpreting would’...

Emotional ExperienceSchool & Work
Helplessness & AgencySadness & HopelessnessEmployment & Career
postr/StutterJan 11, 2023
11 points

speaking is so dreadful

speaking is so dreadful I’m not sure when I developed a stammer but I know I didn’t have it when I was a kid.. everything between then and now is a haze anyway but I know that it’s getting worse. The ...

Speech & StutteringAnticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience
Repetitions & ProlongationsAvoidance & SubstitutionHelplessness & Agency+1 more
commentr/StutterJan 10, 2023
1 points

People always say delusional shit like this, if you get rejected from your job, friends, or seen as weird how is that a beautiful life? And you aren't spoiling life your stutter is and I'm pretty sure...

Emotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Helplessness & AgencyStigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterJan 9, 2023
1 points

I was where you are, and I let my own stutter self-defeat myself and self sabotaged. No i'm 42, dont stutter anymore and occasionally wonder what could have been. I mean this with all my heart and s...

Emotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Helplessness & AgencyIdentity & Self-Perception