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this has nothing to do about when stuttering is at its worst. i’m talking about social acceptance of stuttering. lock in broski...

These statements are results of unawareness. If you want and if she wants to understand, explain to her what actually is stuttering, the depth of it and consequences that we face. Honestly even if I s...

Microaggressions

Microaggressions Was just arguing with a friend (who doesn't have a speech impediment) about certain statements that non-stuttering people give to people who stutter. This sparked since I told her tha...

Under 18 is just a kid. Anyway, she sucked in 8th grade. She was not a nice person. (I wonder if she was being bullied at home?) I will say, however you handled it back then, made an impact on her su...

What goes around comes around

What goes around comes around I want to share with you this crazy story. I recently knew that my biggest bully in elementary school (who bullied me for my stutter), her current boyfriend stutters too....

I am curious where do you live? I also stutter on my name almost every time, and while every once in a while I get a bad reaction, it’s super rare here in Canada! If I had that multiple times a week I...

The frikken realest thing ever. It gets me all riled up when that happens. Like bro I would take your lil stammer over my stutter in a heartbeat...

Right!!! One time I was at a poetry reading and the person reading was super tense and had one repetition on one word, and got super embarrassed and apologized…  🤦‍♀️it really was funny to me. Sad to...

i’m at the point where this shit just isn’t funny anymore. there’s nothing to laugh about. i’ve tried to think positively about my stutter but the truth is, there’s nothing positive about it. it’s a c...

I've had the same experience with a stuttering support group. I also tend to avoid people with more moderate or mild stuttering, or people who used to stutter. Here's why I think this is the case. I...

Generalizing people to that extent and using what ifs to justify it... you know what...believe what you want, don't turn this into a strawman debate that it isn't and change the whole argument maybe b...

Do you get disability checks? Stuttering sucks and it makes communication hard but who are you to shit on other people?...

Wait, do you not understand the concept of people having different lived experiences as you? I had a pretty good childhood, wasn't bullied for my stutter at all, but lots of people had very, very diff...

It doesn't do much if they don't understand stuttering and if they think it's a personality flaw...

Too true and well stated. No one is really out there fighting for disabilities like they are everything else, espeically non-visible ones....

I find sometimes its the secondary behaviors that turn people off rather than the stutter itself. In my case I used to have hard blocks and bad secondary behaviors like lack of eye contact, face wrenc...

i was explicitly told that my application wasn't accepted bcoz of it. the position I applied for only required computer skills n written communication skills and I told them about my stutter beforehan...

That would be a dream lol... but unfortunately in a world where only about 1% of humans suffer this condition and everyone else speaks effortlessly.. most people don't have the patience to deal with p...

Did you ever laugh at the clown in the circus? Were you concerned as whether he was hurt during his routine? You laughed because it looks funny. You are not laughing at him personally but rather as ...

Bullying ruined my life. I think I have the onset of bipolar disorder. Stuttering 😭

Bullying ruined my life. I think I have the onset of bipolar disorder. Stuttering 😭 ...