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commentr/StutterJan 20, 2024
3 points

You obviously have some sort of extreme victimization complex. Unless you were beaten or drugged SPECIFICALLY to induce a stutter, you aren't being punished for anything, and you didn't do anything to...

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commentr/StutterJan 20, 2024
2 points

I know that those exist, but they're irrelevant to my point. I'm saying that stuttering will ALWAYS be a part of our life. Even if we completely cure our stutter, we'd have to think about everything w...

Anticipation & AvoidanceIdentity & Disability
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commentr/StutterJan 20, 2024
7 points

Personally, I love it when people underestimate me because of my stutter. Makes it easier to pull one over on them because they let their gaurd down a bit. Also, people expect less from you in a lot o...

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commentr/StutterJan 20, 2024
3 points

Stuttering is the major reason why I find life unbearable and it will not change unless I can talk like a normal human being. No amount of positive talk can fix this issue as everyone is different whe...

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commentr/StutterJan 20, 2024
3 points

I'm 20 and having a stutter indeed makes life hard beyond 18....

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commentr/StutterJan 20, 2024
2 points

yes .., I don't see a light coming, just our lives were destroyed from the moment we were born, we are cursed pwople for none sin, it is a very sad thing when you see people of your age doing what ...

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commentr/StutterJan 20, 2024
7 points

"I'll be a failure because I know that I'll be a failure" is a self-fulfilling prophecy and does you no favors. To counter "everybody complaining about their lives" - I'm 40 with a wife and kids, in ...

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commentr/StutterJan 20, 2024
2 points

I completely agree with what the OP said, he has shown the reality and the rest very clearly, as a young age he is. you have no right to tell someone who is being victimized while the person in questi...

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commentr/StutterJan 20, 2024
1 points

19F! Currently in a rut about my stutter while starting an internship....

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Identity & Self-Perception
commentr/StutterJan 20, 2024
3 points

You'll do it. I did the exact same thing before I graduated a year and a half ago, if you stop caring about your stutter they'll stop caring as well....

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commentr/StutterJan 20, 2024
3 points

These are comorbid effects exacerbated by having a stutter, not effects that are directly caused by a stutter - thus there shouldn't be an iceberg like this because it implies that it's all part of ha...

Identity & Disability
Identity & Self-Perception
commentr/StutterJan 20, 2024
4 points

If you KNOW you’ll be a failure then yes you will be. Because you’ve already decided to be a failure. You’re not the first person to stutter. Lots of people have overcome it so you can too. It starts ...

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commentr/StutterJan 20, 2024
3 points

Hey. Love what you said. I agree. Sometimes I catch myself practicing the words I will say to a future person. The other day I asked myself; ¿Why are you doing this? you know how to speak, you know y...

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commentr/StutterJan 20, 2024
2 points

You can learn to feel better about yourself and reduce your stuttering to an extent. Read psycho-cybernetics the updated and expanded version. Stuttering is made worse by your negative thoughts about ...

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commentr/StutterJan 20, 2024
4 points

Hey mate I have a very similar situation, I'm 28M and would say my stutter has been much worse since age of 24. (I've had it since I was 10) I mostly speak too fast and repeat syllables with my stutt...

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commentr/StutterJan 20, 2024
3 points

i’m sorry to hear this, i am 22M, year after year i get more worried about future, my parents put me in speech therapy and tried to help and nothing helped me ,in fact i felt more like ihave a disabil...

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commentr/StutterJan 20, 2024
1 points

Can we maybe focus on the positives, that someone with a stutter was able to be president. There’s no limits to what we can do and who cares what trump says 🤷🏻‍♀️ Joe biden isn’t a good stuttering ...

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Identity & Self-PerceptionPublic Awareness / Media
commentr/StutterJan 19, 2024
11 points

What you need is some confidence, you need to grow out of this mindset you've constructed that is self sabotaging. That's not a shot at you, I understand how you feel. I have a very severe stutter mys...

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commentr/StutterJan 19, 2024
7 points

This isn't living, don't let anyone convince you it is. People our age are having sex, effortlessly meeting new people, reaching milestones. You aren't living, you're rowing upstream on a shitty raf...

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commentr/StutterJan 19, 2024
2 points

I'm the same age as you, reading your words reminded me of the things I had to give up because it was impossible to reach them with this disability, even though I want this curse to disappear. sometim...

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