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postr/StutterDec 29, 2020
115 points

WHEN A PERSON WHO STUTTERS HAS FINALLY HAD ENOUGH!!!!

WHEN A PERSON WHO STUTTERS HAS FINALLY HAD ENOUGH!!!! I just had an experience, that is somewhat normal to me. Usually it doesn't get under my skin, but this time it did. After working in the cold all...

Causes & VariabilityEmotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Stress & Fight/FlightFrustration & AngerStigma & Bullying+1 more
commentr/StutterDec 28, 2020
2 points

Sad part is, we never ask for pity or tend to cause annoyance. People automatically assume it. Which tends to piss us off. My teachers did nothing about it. In fact they made fun of it more than the s...

Identity & DisabilityCauses & VariabilitySchool & Work
Stigma & BullyingTrauma & PsychologicalSchool & Academic Life
commentr/StutterDec 28, 2020
1 points

Yea it’s rough man, we’re the only disability in the world that still gets laughed at and get little to no accommodations for it. Trying to stay positive as well though....

Identity & DisabilityEmotional Experience
Stigma & BullyingHope & Motivation
commentr/StutterDec 28, 2020
1 points

When I was in university one of my schoolmate will always laugh and mimic my stutter. I can remember him saying “say it again? Say it again?”. Keep it mind I am a physiotherapist so we were future the...

Identity & DisabilitySchool & Work
Stigma & BullyingSchool & Academic Life
commentr/StutterDec 27, 2020
3 points

Just every time I stutter people mimic and go w-w-w-w haha......

Identity & DisabilitySpeech & Stuttering
Stigma & BullyingRepetitions & Prolongations
commentr/StutterDec 26, 2020
3 points

It was one of those week where I was having a TERRIBLE time with my stutter. It’s weird- I can go on for weeks with a very bare stutter and then out of no where it just hits me real bad where I strugg...

Causes & VariabilityEmotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Severity & FluctuationFrustration & AngerStigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterDec 26, 2020
4 points

I was 14, working my first job as a busboy. I was asking a man if he wanted coffee, and I blocked like REALLY hard. He looked at me wide-eyed and bursted out laughing. He jokingly said he wanted a wor...

Emotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Shame & EmbarrassmentStigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterDec 26, 2020
3 points

Someone in middle school said to me I sound like an AK-47 (automatic rifle) trying to pronounce my name in the first day. That was years ago, before school shootings became a trend....

Identity & DisabilityEmotional Experience
Stigma & BullyingShame & Embarrassment
commentr/StutterDec 25, 2020
4 points

I was working in the drive thru and I stuttered taking telling this man his total and they busted out laughed and told me I need to learn to talk. Honestly I have countless stories like that, being fr...

Emotional ExperienceIdentity & DisabilitySocial & Relationships
Shame & EmbarrassmentStigma & BullyingQuality of Life
commentr/StutterDec 25, 2020
4 points

Ive only really experienced my friends mocking me but im not super self conscious about my stutter cos its just apart of me so im used to it, but the only friends that "mock" me are like my friends th...

Identity & Disability
Acceptance & PrideStigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterDec 25, 2020
4 points

I normally have blocks when I say my name and one time when I went to this party and everyone was introducing themselves (my nightmare) this girl approached me and I had a block, she then proceeded to...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Feared Words & NamesShame & EmbarrassmentStigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterDec 25, 2020
7 points

Oh man. I received a lot of comments. Some were mean-spirited. A “friend” when i was younger said, “WHATS WRONG WITH YOU? SPIT IT OUT!” A grown adult asked me once “Did you forget how to speak?”in a m...

Emotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Shame & EmbarrassmentStigma & BullyingAnxiety & Social Judgment
postr/StutterDec 25, 2020
14 points

What’s the meanest thing someone said to you as a stutterer?

What’s the meanest thing someone said to you as a stutterer? -A “friend” once said to me in a “jokey” way “I’m not going to hangout with you because I don’t wanna develop a stutter”...

Identity & DisabilityEmotional Experience
Stigma & BullyingShame & Embarrassment
commentr/StutterDec 23, 2020
2 points

Don't be sorry! having been a genuine guinea pig I had about 4 SLP interns per year moderated by a very unpleasant woman who's name is now emblazon on the pre-pre-k school I was also sent to (with ver...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentShame & Embarrassment+3 more
commentr/StutterDec 22, 2020
2 points

I go through this like every 6mths. I feel like nobody understands what we go through with this condition and it really fks me off that fluent speakers just don’t fkn get it. But yeah like others said...

Emotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Frustration & AngerHelplessness & AgencyStigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterDec 22, 2020
1 points

THANK YOU. legit ive had people tell me that i wont have a stutter if i just had a bit more confidence can people not forget that a stutter can be caused by a brain injury please these tropes c...

Causes & VariabilityIdentity & Disability
Genetic & Family FactorsStigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterDec 22, 2020
1 points

I can only think of two real don't off the top of my head. Don't make it a joke. A lot of times a stuttering character is just there for comic relief, because stutters are stupid and it's hilarious (...

Identity & Disability
Stigma & BullyingPublic Awareness / Media
commentr/StutterDec 21, 2020
1 points

I’m giving the presentation to my class, I told the teacher and the class that I stutter, but the teacher laughed at it because she thought I was just joking. 👁👄👁️...

Emotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Shame & EmbarrassmentStigma & Bullying
postr/StutterDec 20, 2020
91 points

(21M) Really hate when some stranger points me out Infront of my friends and asks me "dO yOu StUTTeR?" No bitch I'm just beat boxing.

(21M) Really hate when some stranger points me out Infront of my friends and asks me "dO yOu StUTTeR?" No bitch I'm just beat boxing. [deleted]...

Identity & Disability
Stigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterDec 20, 2020
1 points

i can almost 100% relate to this. my stutter is also quite bad and when i go the my speech therapist it feels like he sometimes thinks that i might have faked it as i dont stutter talking with him. wh...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Hiding & ConcealmentOverthinking & MonitoringShame & Embarrassment+3 more