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Stuttering is genetic in my family. My brother and I both stuttered severely as children and into our young adulthood. My daughter is a 17 year old advanced AP senior with an active stutter. I am tr...
What a piece of shit, honestly. Wether you have a stutter or not, what would compel a person to make this sort of comment? Good on you for standing up for yourself. I'm sorry for what happened, that...
why this obsession with denying that stuttering is objectively something undesirable and something to be concerned about your child. It would be like saying that it is bad parenting to worry about a p...
I know that hurt, but you gotta understand that it was propbably not ment to be hurtful in the way you might think. Maybe he thought your tounge curled up of something, which would be harmless to joke...
Got laughed at today
Got laughed at today I was talking to somebody in a hallway at my college, and I was stuttering. Somebody walking by started laughing while saying “what the hell”? I simply mentioned “I just have a st...
I've been looked at like I wasn't from this world, but it's their problem to deal with. I am the way I am, if someone's not okay with that, then I simply move on. They're not worth my time anyways if ...
My heart only breaks because I know how awful it is and I don’t want her to go through that. A lot of professionals do think it’s a learned behavior. I just don’t want her to go through this...
>I feel it’s my duty as a mother to fix my stutter to help her How is you being fluent going to help her? Stuttering isn't a learned behavior. If anything she needs a role model to show her that s...
Why are there always a-holes at the grocery store? I've gotten into altercations there. Sorry you had to deal with that especially at your job. You did a good job not flipping out. Retail sucks!!!...
I've found that like 90% of the mocking comes from either kids, who don't know better yet, or from older people. I think the time they grew up in was really different and mocking disabilities was a lo...
In the same exact way was I mocked by a Jehova’s witness granny that wanted to hand me a leaflet. At the end of the day I thought ‘wow who else on earth could say they’ve had the pleasure of being mo...
Ew what a disgusting person. Even if you didn't stutter it sounds like she just planned to berate you about your voting choices? I used to work retail and some people were just unbelievably rude. It r...
1. Only insecure babies talk about specific politics or religion to strangers. I never engage in this. 2. She probably didn’t know you stuttered (as in a real speech impediment) so her slight wasn’t a...
English isn't my native language so for a long time I had to studie english, some day another studant come to me and asked me why I am studing english if I can't even talk in portuguese well, I had no...
Was mocked for my stutter for the first time in 2.5 years…
Was mocked for my stutter for the first time in 2.5 years… I’m in college and work part time as a cashier at a major grocery chain. This older lady comes in my line and starts off with “did you vote f...
>what should I bring up? You could advice, in the podcast, that PWS can focus more on trusting automatic speech rather than linking self-esteem to their speech My advice is to tackle the stigma '...
Yes, the way other people look at me during these verbal blocks has me under the impression my respect level and my intelligence level is being zapped from me. I often find my self being challenged ...
The journey to learn and internalize that it's ok to stutter in a society where it is still stigmatized....
i just think since everyone else does it in times of embarrassment, lying, etc.,thats all they know. some people arent mean just to be mean and genuinely dont know its a disability, so of course meeti...
Jeez man I’m so sorry. That sucks. This is a perfect example of a time when I would usually turn around to the person mocking me and say, “I have a stutter. It’s a disability. Are you laughing at me?...