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commentr/StutterSep 11, 2025
2 points

What I'm talking about directly challenges the claim that stuttering is a mental illness. I'm here to say that it's far from it. Be kind to yourself....

Identity & Disability
Medicalization / NeurodiversityIdentity & Self-Perception
commentr/StutterSep 11, 2025
2 points

While stuttering and mental illness aren't mutually exclusive, stuttering is not a mental illness. I've seen your recent blitz of comments here. You have a very skewed and inaccurate perspective of st...

Identity & Disability
Medicalization / NeurodiversityIdentity & Self-Perception
commentr/StutterSep 11, 2025
3 points

I hope u are right. Part of me thinks its a mental illness. It makes no sense. I stutter when talking to an AI voice but not animals. If it is a mental illness there will never be a cure...

Identity & DisabilityEmotional Experience
Medicalization / NeurodiversityHelplessness & Agency
commentr/StutterSep 7, 2025
1 points

Stuttering is a defined yet non-defined term. You have neurological, genetic and trauma stutterers. I know people who were stuttering (and some cluttering) due dementia at 90 to even 100, is that spee...

Identity & DisabilityCauses & Variability
Medicalization / NeurodiversityTrauma & PsychologicalCycles & Randomness+1 more
commentr/StutterSep 7, 2025
3 points

I think the 1% figure is inflated because the definition of "stutter" is so vague. Those of us in this reddit are talking about pathological stuttering, i.e. COFD. Someone with this condition, when t...

Identity & DisabilitySpeech & Stuttering
Medicalization / NeurodiversityStigma & BullyingRepetitions & Prolongations+1 more
commentr/StutterSep 6, 2025
1 points

She cares about you - but her care is slightly misguided. She sees it as a problem that can be fixed, and why wouldn't a parent want that for their child. Unfortunately like many other disabilities, y...

Parent & CaregiverIdentity & Disability
Parent Emotions & GuiltMedicalization / Neurodiversity
commentr/StutterSep 6, 2025
7 points

Damn dude. How old are you? She needs to hear from other parents of stutterers and stutterers themselves. Speech therapy absolutely held me back in a similar way - it made me focus on trying to "fi...

Therapy & ProfessionalIdentity & DisabilityEmotional Experience
Therapy ExperiencesMedicalization / NeurodiversityHelplessness & Agency
commentr/StutterSep 5, 2025
0 points

That is a good idea, I will let you know his response. Stuttering is also a spectrum and not straight fowars as "physical" disabilites to interpret. Argueably our disorder is physical in the way we ar...

Identity & Disability
Identity & Self-PerceptionMedicalization / Neurodiversity
commentr/StutterSep 5, 2025
2 points

We deserve our own label and study. Not growing out of stuttering has a huge impact on our lives. They can tell kids that but telling adults seems belittling...

Identity & Disability
Identity & Self-PerceptionMedicalization / Neurodiversity
postr/Stutter_remissionSep 1, 2025
1 points

RESEARCH: many perceive stutterers as less intelligent due to their disfluency, however, as a group, individuals who stutter tend to be of above average intelligence

RESEARCH: many perceive stutterers as less intelligent due to their disfluency, however, as a group, individuals who stutter tend to be of above average intelligence *Source:* [*https://guardianlv.com...

Causes & VariabilityIdentity & DisabilityParent & Caregiver
Genetic & Family FactorsSeverity & FluctuationMedicalization / Neurodiversity+1 more
postr/StutterAug 30, 2025
9 points

We normalize glasses 👓 and hearing aids 👂… so why not stuttering? 🗣️

We normalize glasses 👓 and hearing aids 👂… so why not stuttering? 🗣️ grew up with a stutter and used to feel like it made me “less.” Over time, I’ve learned to manage it better and see it different...

Identity & Disability
Acceptance & PrideMedicalization / NeurodiversityPublic Awareness / Media
postr/StutterAug 29, 2025
30 points

It confuses me how stutterers will type a way to ‘fix’ a stutter here, when the whole point is to uplift ourselves.

It confuses me how stutterers will type a way to ‘fix’ a stutter here, when the whole point is to uplift ourselves. I’ve seen a lot of posts under this saying ways to “cure” stuttering, and themselves...

Identity & Disability
Medicalization / NeurodiversityStigma & Bullying
postr/StutterAug 28, 2025
0 points

Do you think stuttering should be treated the same way we treat glasses or hearing aids?

Do you think stuttering should be treated the same way we treat glasses or hearing aids? Growing up with a stutter, I used to feel like it was something that held me back. Over time — with a lot of pr...

Identity & Disability
Acceptance & PrideMedicalization / NeurodiversityPublic Awareness / Media
postr/Stutter_remissionAug 27, 2025
1 points

Enjoy this STUTTER image

Enjoy this STUTTER image This stutter image is alluding to the idea that symptoms or signals themselves are not the problem. Rather relying on the needs (that directly result in self-criticism or nega...

Identity & Disability
Medicalization / Neurodiversity
postr/StutterAug 12, 2025
5 points

Are We Treating the Symptom, Not the Cause of Stuttering?

Are We Treating the Symptom, Not the Cause of Stuttering? I recently made a short video exploring a question I’ve been thinking about for a while: Are we often treating the symptoms of stuttering, ra...

Causes & VariabilityCoping & AdvocacyIdentity & Disability
Trauma & PsychologicalFluency TechniquesMedicalization / Neurodiversity
postr/StutterAug 8, 2025
2 points

Question for the SLP’s only - why can stuttering only be controlled and not fully ‘fixed’?

Question for the SLP’s only - why can stuttering only be controlled and not fully ‘fixed’? ...

Identity & Disability
Medicalization / Neurodiversity
postr/StutterAug 7, 2025
5 points

How can a layperson assist with stuttering research, or make baby steps towards slowly getting into research?

How can a layperson assist with stuttering research, or make baby steps towards slowly getting into research? Asking this as a PWS myself! Stuttering is something that I feel is under-researched, an...

Community & SupportIdentity & Disability
Research & ResourcesMedicalization / Neurodiversity
postr/StutterAug 4, 2025
33 points

Nice thought I had

Nice thought I had As a student of the Bible, I’ve always identified with Exodus 4:10-12. It relays a conversation between Moses and God. After God tells Moses to return to Eqypt to take the Hebrews...

Identity & Disability
Identity & Self-PerceptionMedicalization / Neurodiversity
postr/StopStutterAug 2, 2025
1 points

MIT Neuroscience Grad Debunks Stuttering Myth

MIT Neuroscience Grad Debunks Stuttering Myth FULL VIDEO: https://youtu.be/XT2bz7SAXTY?si=HDZ36B53mLDrzMmH The most skeptic person won’t believe a word if a random jabroni claims to have stopped stut...

Community & SupportIdentity & Disability
Research & ResourcesMedicalization / Neurodiversity
commentr/StutterJul 28, 2025
10 points

We would be more accurately neurodivergent. The brain affects speech, and our brain works differently when processing thoughts to speech, that is pretty much neurodivergence; difference in brain proce...

Causes & VariabilityIdentity & Disability
Neurological & BrainMedicalization / Neurodiversity