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postr/StutterJun 30, 2020
11 points

Exhausted

Exhausted I'm done with trying. I'm done with all the struggling I've to experience in order to say a few words, sometimes ending up with different words even if I wanted to say something else. I rea...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentOverthinking & Monitoring+3 more
commentr/StutterJun 29, 2020
3 points

Same here. I’m 100% mine is just due to my self esteem being non existent. Just need to figure out how to build it up....

Emotional Experience
Shame & EmbarrassmentHope & Motivation
commentr/StutterJun 28, 2020
7 points

Yeah I feel you bro. I’ve had this stutter for 8 years and therapy didn’t help. My speech pathologist told me I was extremely fluent when I spoke but as soon as I left it came back. I try to use a who...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceSpeech & Stuttering
Avoidance & SubstitutionShame & EmbarrassmentHelplessness & Agency+1 more
postr/StutterJun 28, 2020
61 points

I never want to speak again

I never want to speak again I just can't deal with all this stress and anxiety. I keep blocking for such a long time just for one word. Happens at home, at work, at school, when I'm ordering food, I j...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceSpeech & Stuttering
Hiding & ConcealmentShame & EmbarrassmentAnxiety & Social Judgment+2 more
commentr/StutterJun 28, 2020
1 points

My mum is the most loving, but I think my father likes me as well. About school, i experienced bullying and that made my stutter worse but the real problem about stuttering isn't what caused it, it's ...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionShame & EmbarrassmentAcceptance & Pride
commentr/StutterJun 28, 2020
1 points

I guess I can do that. but do.i really have to spell it out? I have an elder sibling too and even a stranger can notice how different our lives are. she has more friends, more people to call and talk ...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience
Avoidance & SubstitutionShame & EmbarrassmentHelplessness & Agency
postr/StutterJun 26, 2020
7 points

I really need help bad

I really need help bad My stutter is not bad at all but it is ruining my life even tho it is so small. It’s always the first word of the sentence and I always think about it to much to the point where...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience
Feared Words & NamesAvoidance & SubstitutionHiding & Concealment+3 more
commentr/StutterJun 26, 2020
2 points

I feel like cursed. I can live with it sure but i fear what other ppl think about my stuttering. But no one has mocked me yet...

Emotional Experience
Anxiety & Social JudgmentShame & Embarrassment
commentr/StutterJun 26, 2020
11 points

FAKK I CAN'T EVEN ! There was this one time in school when a girl started quarrelling with me for a very petty thing. And I tried to reply her and boom ! I stuttered ! And she laughed. It was really...

Emotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Shame & EmbarrassmentStigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterJun 25, 2020
2 points

I've had a stutter my whole life, and had this same issue, but just reading the title of this post breaks my heart. I was at a magic show once in Atlantic City when I was a kid and he brought me on st...

Emotional ExperienceAnticipation & Avoidance
Shame & EmbarrassmentFeared Words & NamesAvoidance & Substitution
commentr/StutterJun 25, 2020
3 points

I've had it too many times..unfortunately. And most of the time after they say something like this I somehow push out my name, tell about my stuttering and then there's this super uncomfortable pause ...

Anticipation & AvoidanceSocial & RelationshipsEmotional Experience
Avoidance & SubstitutionDisclosure & Telling OthersShame & Embarrassment
commentr/StutterJun 24, 2020
1 points

I first noticed that I had trouble reading aloud in class as a sophomore in high school. Since then I began to notice it more and more throughout my life. As a current sophomore in college I have mad...

Identity & DisabilityEmotional Experience
Acceptance & PrideShame & EmbarrassmentHelplessness & Agency
commentr/StutterJun 24, 2020
2 points

I started stuttering in kindergarten. I went to speech therapy for a while and they said that it would eventually go away. Their tip for my mom was to never mention the stutter to me. My stutter was m...

Emotional ExperienceMeds & SubstancesCommunity & Support
Shame & EmbarrassmentAnxiety & Social JudgmentHarmful Med Outcomes+3 more
commentr/StutterJun 24, 2020
1 points

It started when i was kid in kindergarten, i see it as curse and have been woth thr curse 17 years (i am 17 year old boy) fear that i can mocked by stuttering...

Emotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Shame & EmbarrassmentStigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterJun 24, 2020
5 points

Hi, first of all I apologize fir my english. My stutter started around that age, maybe 6 y/o. It was very difficult for me to talk, I had to go to speech doctor, and eventually I could "manage it" mor...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceParent & Caregiver
Avoidance & SubstitutionShame & EmbarrassmentEarly Concern & Onset
commentr/StutterJun 24, 2020
1 points

Same, shame and anxiety are most common for me. It feels like all of my options are cut off because of my stutter...

Emotional Experience
Shame & EmbarrassmentAnxiety & Social JudgmentHelplessness & Agency
postr/StutterJun 23, 2020
9 points

My Silent Story

My Silent Story My Life has been full of Anger, Frustration, Sadness, and Shame, living in a rough end in london with this condition has made me social anxious, worried that someone may be silently ju...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Feared Words & NamesHiding & ConcealmentTrauma & Psychological+3 more
commentr/StutterJun 22, 2020
1 points

I find myself covering my face or mouth when I block, or averting eye contact. It’s such a helpless awful feeling....

Anticipation & AvoidanceSpeech & StutteringEmotional Experience
Hiding & ConcealmentPhysical TensionShame & Embarrassment
commentr/StutterJun 20, 2020
2 points

Stutter, shame of stuttering that caused social anxiety that caused isolation which caused no higher education than one year in high school.. Nah. I'm stupid as shit....

Emotional ExperienceSocial & RelationshipsSchool & Work
Shame & EmbarrassmentLoneliness & IsolationSchool & Academic Life
commentr/StutterJun 20, 2020
1 points

the kid should be mature enough to understand what an adult is saying. I say myself the same thing, that they're just kids and we can't expect an adult conscience from them. but it does hurt and ut di...

Emotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Shame & EmbarrassmentStigma & Bullying