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commentr/StutterApr 12, 2024
5 points

This is so tough. I’ll be with friends and want to spontaneously make a joke and it’s just so challenging and unfortunate...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & Variability
Avoidance & SubstitutionPropositionality & Weight
commentr/StutterApr 12, 2024
7 points

Yeah, jokes are difficult, especially when you have to rely on timing. An example of a stutterer who was a comic genius is Rowan Atkinson. He did some non-verbal comedy like the invisible drumset sk...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & Variability
Avoidance & SubstitutionRoles & Performance
commentr/StutterApr 12, 2024
3 points

Yeah exactly! You go to explain, you then stutter more, and you totally lose the audience. I consider myself humorous too. When my brain does not cause me to stutter, I make people laugh, a lot. But ...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionAnxiety & Social JudgmentAuthenticity vs. Masking
commentr/StutterApr 12, 2024
2 points

I think I’m kind of an outgoing person. I always have thoughts of “what if I could do this” or “it would be cool if I could do that” ….but that’s If I didn’t have this stutter. But I do…and it’s tur...

Anticipation & AvoidanceIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionAuthenticity vs. MaskingIdentity & Self-Perception
commentr/StutterApr 12, 2024
7 points

It sucks really hard! Even more when one joke doesn't quite land you are asked to explain it. Then, even if the joke at first went okay-ish, the explanation is a rocky gravel road with potholes deeper...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience
Avoidance & SubstitutionAnxiety & Social Judgment
commentr/StutterApr 12, 2024
3 points

Yes fucking finally, I have found the only voice of reason in this thread and he's all the way at the bottom. People always ask me if it's okay to finish my sentences and I always say yes cause I don'...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCoping & AdvocacySocial & Relationships
Avoidance & SubstitutionSelf-Advocacy & BoundariesListener Reactions
postr/StutterApr 11, 2024
44 points

I hate how stuttering affects my ability to be funny/tell jokes

I hate how stuttering affects my ability to be funny/tell jokes So much of being funny generally comes down to the timing of things when you say them. Having a stutter, I tend to trip over words until...

Causes & VariabilityAnticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience
Propositionality & WeightAvoidance & SubstitutionAnxiety & Social Judgment+1 more
commentr/StutterApr 11, 2024
1 points

so this is complicated. when you abstain from masturbation, you are eliminating escapist behaviors. people masturbate to run away from uncomfortable feelings. they also masturbate to reason with our i...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience
Avoidance & SubstitutionShame & EmbarrassmentHelplessness & Agency
commentr/StutterApr 11, 2024
4 points

I fucking love it when I’m struggling and people finish it for me. Idk why people don’t personally. like I just wanna get the word out and move on. Granted my stutter is not that band anymore at all...

Anticipation & AvoidanceSocial & Relationships
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commentr/StutterApr 11, 2024
5 points

THIS IS ME! I always think of how different my life would be if I could speak with fluency. All the missed jokes, quips, flirtatious remarks, repartees and comebacks I've never said because they all r...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionSeverity & FluctuationAuthenticity vs. Masking
commentr/StutterApr 11, 2024
-3 points

This is chatgpt... what do you think about that?? **The relationship between pornography and stuttering:** There is no direct scientific evidence of a relationship between pornography and stuttering...

Anticipation & AvoidanceMeds & Substances
Avoidance & SubstitutionHelpful Med OutcomesHarmful Med Outcomes
commentr/StutterApr 11, 2024
2 points

can’t you try to write it with easy words you dont stutter with? try also to change the order of the sentences to make it easier at the beginning then the other words will follow. for me you have to t...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCommunity & Support
Avoidance & SubstitutionAdvice Requests
commentr/StutterApr 11, 2024
9 points

It’s never easy to guess. At moments i wanted people to help me finish my sentence and other moments i wanted to finish them myself. Under no circumstances however do i want people to say “calm down” ...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Avoidance & SubstitutionStress & Fight/FlightAnxiety & Social Judgment
commentr/StutterApr 11, 2024
5 points

Since you don't really know him, wait. Me personally I hate when people in general correct my stutter, I feel like that ends up making it worse. I am however fine with people I am really close to (cl...

Anticipation & AvoidanceSocial & Relationships
Avoidance & SubstitutionDating & RomanceListener Reactions
commentr/StutterApr 11, 2024
16 points

I used to get upset when people finished my sentences for me, I felt humiliated and I should be able to talk on my own. But honestly, now I welcome it. If I get stuck and have trouble getting out a wo...

Anticipation & AvoidanceSocial & Relationships
Avoidance & SubstitutionListener Reactions
commentr/StutterApr 11, 2024
1 points

Hmm I wouldn't say that blocking is avoidance of "repeated" stutter. I have never had the problem with repeating sounds, only speech blocks...

Anticipation & AvoidanceSpeech & Stuttering
Avoidance & SubstitutionBlocks & Stoppages
commentr/StutterApr 11, 2024
3 points

I totally agree, I generally do go for it anyways, sometimes it works. But there's an undeniable reality that timing/tone are a huge factor in communication, especially humour, and it rarely comes acr...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCoping & AdvocacyIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionMindset shiftAuthenticity vs. Masking+2 more
commentr/StutterApr 11, 2024
2 points

You know what I think, I think you should always go for that joke or always tell that story. Of course we have to focus on breathing and talking a little bit slower to people, but if your "friends" ar...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCoping & AdvocacyIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionFluency TechniquesAuthenticity vs. Masking
commentr/StutterApr 10, 2024
1 points

I got this below excerpt from some website which might be of help to some. But i believe it all depends on how you hold your nerve when talking to strangers. Begin Quote "He told me that I don’t rea...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCoping & AdvocacySchool & Work
Avoidance & SubstitutionFluency TechniquesPublic Speaking
commentr/StutterApr 10, 2024
16 points

Online dating for me. I approached people in college and just stuttered through it and got a few girlfriends that way. The reality is most people don’t really care about your stutter in the way th...

Anticipation & AvoidanceSocial & Relationships
Avoidance & SubstitutionDating & RomanceDisclosure & Telling Others