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commentr/StutterOct 13, 2025
1 points

I unfortunately avoid and don’t attend gatherings as much as possible, female here… reason: to spare me the horrors of talking to people I’m not that close with, and the psychological exhaustion I fee...

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commentr/StutterOct 13, 2025
2 points

Yeah I relate. I’ve always hidden my stutter. I’ll change my words around or find different ways to say things just to avoid stuttering. Over time I’ve developed selective mutism, I barely talk out lo...

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commentr/StutterOct 13, 2025
1 points

I unfortunately avoid gatherings as much as possible, to spare me the horrors of long talks/ conversations and agonizing blocks, which is sad....

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commentr/StutterOct 12, 2025
1 points

Funny story man I have a mild stutter and like everyone else man we stutter all the time. But once I what to Spain( a place I been wanting to go for 4 years) I volunteered at a hostel though Worldpac...

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commentr/StutterOct 11, 2025
8 points

I have two higher educations, my own apartment in the capital in a northern European country and a well paid job as a project manager and stuttering has maybe held me up some times in my life but neve...

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commentr/StutterOct 11, 2025
1 points

I am from India, I don't think stammering is considered as Disability....

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commentr/StutterOct 10, 2025
2 points

When people forget what you were attempting to communicate by the time you finally get all of your words out....

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commentr/StutterOct 10, 2025
3 points

Lol I have a similar case, when I want to buy a slushie or something I can't point on with my finger in the school's food stand, I ask my friends if they want me to buy them something, so I give them ...

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commentr/StutterOct 10, 2025
3 points

I got you. I have a similar thing, I have a food stand in my school and I barely buy there but when I buy I always pick the things that I can point on with my finger...

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commentr/StutterOct 8, 2025
1 points

I almost had a stroke last year because i got so anxious while stuttering that i was sweating waterfalls and hyperventilating, i collapsed and had to be moved to the infirmary. It’s not the stutteri...

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commentr/StutterOct 8, 2025
2 points

If you take a look at the statistics on stutterers, you would think that you would meet someone with this problem every day, right? The truth is that without fluent speech, you are generally not allo...

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commentr/StutterOct 8, 2025
1 points

Sorry to hear that kinda person, but this post is sorta insensitive. Not everybody is going to react or is able to react the same way as you, and that’s perfectly ok. Me personally, the people who v...

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commentr/StutterOct 8, 2025
1 points

What if i dont have a problem with friends and dressing and taking a shower like you used to? This post assumes everyone 'whining' is lonely has a miserable life. I have a pretty good social life and ...

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commentr/StutterOct 7, 2025
3 points

Phlebotomist! Can be challenging, but mostly it's the same questions and small talk that I can control. After a long day I feel my breath is tired and talking is tiring/hard. Also during stressful tim...

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commentr/StutterOct 7, 2025
3 points

Well, this comments section is a ball of angry hornets. OP, it’ll be ok. Each of us had our own horror stories of stuttering and lived experience with this burden. To some of us, its crippling, to...

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commentr/StutterOct 7, 2025
2 points

Massage Therapist- perfect job, limited talking. I’m a musician too and when I sing I can’t stutter....

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commentr/StutterOct 7, 2025
4 points

TW: Black Pill People don’t want to cure stuttering as they focus on the more troubling diseases/conditions like cancer, viral diseases, blindness, physical disabilities, deafness etc. So because we a...

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commentr/StutterOct 7, 2025
1 points

If you observe enough, you’ll notice that most people are pretty self-absorbed with their own lives and problems. I say this because it’s often us as people who stutter who end up hyper-focusing on ou...

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commentr/StutterOct 7, 2025
2 points

This. Or, while out running errands (or going to a coffee shop or library), make a point to compliment someone on their clothes or ask for directions- doesn't matter if you need help or are actually g...

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commentr/StutterOct 7, 2025
16 points

Part of it has to do with the general public not understanding that stuttering is in fact a disability just like down syndrome or cerebral palsy. I have been personally told that I "didn't" have to st...

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