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commentr/StutterJul 15, 2021
4 points

Yes I always stutter when I say my name. I get the "do you not even know your own name" question a lot as well. One particular time that sticks out in my mind and that I always remember was when I was...

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commentr/StutterJul 14, 2021
2 points

I'm 14 now and I had something like that happen to me a couple of months ago. You see my name is Conor and I nearly always stutter when I say my name,so one day a couple of months ago I was telling th...

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commentr/StutterJul 14, 2021
1 points

This happens to me not very often but often enough that my friends aren't surprised or shocked when it happens. I'm 14 and have had a stutter pretty much my whole life. Blockages usually happen to me ...

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commentr/StutterJul 14, 2021
1 points

In my first memory I think I was 4-6. I only remember because when I would stutter around my grandma she say "Don't do that"...

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commentr/StutterJul 10, 2021
2 points

Dunno why this got downvoted. Stuttering, obviously, gives you a disadvantage at many things and seeking for therapy is the best way to reduce it, at least....

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commentr/StutterJul 9, 2021
1 points

My dad uses to say that, it pissed me off so much, its just such an insensitive thing to say to someone with a really mental problem :/...

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commentr/StutterJul 9, 2021
3 points

Kids can be cruel, mobbing, excluding etc. School is a though place. People become better the older you turn, less judgement and more acceptance but we struggle moving past our childhood traumas and ...

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postr/StutterJul 9, 2021
8 points

They sometimes confuse me with a foreign national in my own country lol

They sometimes confuse me with a foreign national in my own country lol You read it correct. Because of my stutter, many people think that I'm not from here at first. When I have to talk with institut...

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commentr/StutterJul 9, 2021
2 points

It did. The conversation my mum got to have with his mum after was where the education came in, both ways, I did a bad thing but we did get to educate them to a point they understood. My mum, like m...

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commentr/StutterJul 9, 2021
4 points

And who are those people? If strangers, fuck them. If "friends", fuck them. If family, well, fuck them. Dont spend your time with assholes. As i said, nobody mocked me for many many years, there are m...

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commentr/StutterJul 9, 2021
3 points

Or when you're 14 you throw a metal tennis racket at a smirker from about five feet away and split him enough that had he goes to hospital Yes it was wrong. Yes it got me in a lot of trouble. Yes I ...

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commentr/StutterJul 9, 2021
1 points

I wish somebody would mock me, I dont have this experience at all for many years. I wish somebody would do it so I can defend myself properly. As a kid/teenager I was not "adult" enough to defend myse...

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postr/StutterJul 9, 2021
15 points

Stutter Pet Peeves

Stutter Pet Peeves Here's a small list for me to vent my frustrations out. \-When I know what I want to say, but it won't come out. \-Sometimes I struggle to pronounce words because of my stutter...

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postr/StutterJul 7, 2021
3 points

You know when you stutter and the part you stutter at is “sh”

You know when you stutter and the part you stutter at is “sh” It’s sad how some people think I’m telling them to shut up. I have relied on my phone to text people big sentences. 🥲this happened at a f...

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commentr/StutterJul 7, 2021
2 points

I think you may be projecting a bit… feeling how you would if you had his stutter. I (mild stutter mostly controlled) feel this a lot when around my brother whose stutter is… a larger issue. I take de...

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commentr/StutterJul 6, 2021
3 points

I don't have any actual tips to give you but i can tell you one thing. You're not supposed to be a "burden for others" and if they aren't patient enough to wait a bit to listen to what you have to say...

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commentr/StutterJul 5, 2021
2 points

Thanks mate, good to hear that you did well in your thesis presentation. People in my country are still ignorant about stuttering one of my professor got agitated while I was answering his question I ...

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postr/StutterJul 4, 2021
40 points

I don’t like jokes at my expense

I don’t like jokes at my expense i’m at my dads and he keeps making jokes about my stutter. i know they are just jokes and stuff but it hurts my feelings. like i was trying to get a new bra because i ...

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commentr/StutterJul 2, 2021
1 points

I can absolutely relate to every single thing you wrote! It's like you exactly summarized my entire life so far. And yeah... I feel like the happiest person in the world when I finish a smooth sente...

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commentr/StutterJun 30, 2021
2 points

Telling this person that they "ran into a monster" with stuttering is highly stigmatising. Not everybody who stutters views it as having some sort of monster condition. There is no need to paint a lot...

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