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commentr/StutterFeb 9, 2025
2 points

It is. There’s no hiding it either. When I was 18, my boyfriend’s mom had referred me to work at a hair salon. When I was interviewed, the lady- who was part owner in the salon next to her husband- sa...

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commentr/StutterFeb 7, 2025
3 points

First, I'm so sorry for your experience. I ask myself how reasonably educated adults can traumatize their children to that extent. I'm sure my parents contributed to the lifelong stuttering. They ini...

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commentr/StutterFeb 7, 2025
5 points

I’m really sorry you went through this, I get it. Both of my parents are narcissistic and my Dad has anger issues which caused a pretty stressful household growing up which made my stutter worse. My D...

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commentr/StutterFeb 6, 2025
3 points

I’ve had unfortunately similar stages of this in my upbringing. And it severely impacted stuttering to points of being mute for long periods. O I suggest looking into trauma informed therapy. I think...

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commentr/StutterFeb 6, 2025
1 points

I feel like it’s a death sentence for me. Have always felt that my life would be more difficult with the stuttering. In teens I started developing a sense that I this must die alone with me, no genes ...

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postr/StutterFeb 6, 2025
8 points

I need a realistic wake up call

I need a realistic wake up call So... I've never actually posted anything on here but I've been lurking a lot on this subreddit. I don't even know how to write posts on Reddit in a comprehensible man...

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commentr/StutterFeb 6, 2025
2 points

Even with in stutterers, all lifes are not same. I know a stutterer, who has better life than me, he is confidence with his stuttering and all, because he has strong supportive family since birth. I h...

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commentr/StutterFeb 6, 2025
1 points

I get your point, but not sure I’d call it a disability. For example, people who can’t walk for some reason, are always restricted in this sense, they have no choice. People who stutternavigate it di...

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postr/StutterFeb 5, 2025
11 points

As a stutterer how do you try to gain friends?

As a stutterer how do you try to gain friends? I'm 17(M) and never had many friends because of my severe stammering, I can't socialize that much, and lately, I have been feeling rather lonely that I d...

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commentr/StutterFeb 4, 2025
1 points

Tell him ; i stutter as an adult 22 years old and nobody approached me clearly as a woman they made it clear it was okay but they didn’t say it directly that my stutter was beautiful… which made me qu...

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postr/StutterFeb 4, 2025
26 points

Missing out life changing opportunities

Missing out life changing opportunities Hi, 30(M) here. I have been stuttering for my whole life and currently working or should i say surviving in the cyber security domain. Dont wanna brag but i a...

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commentr/StutterFeb 3, 2025
2 points

If only this could help. So many of us, mostly the younger stutterers have almost given up hope. Especially those in countries that provide no services or still regard stuttering as evil, even a curse...

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Sadness & HopelessnessStigma & BullyingHope & Motivation
commentr/StutterFeb 3, 2025
2 points

It’s definitely neurological and it’s not fun I find it sore I get headaches I feel down it’s hard to be happy and have a stutter. And yet they say keep breathing blah blah blah … nothing works...

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postr/StutterFeb 1, 2025
23 points

Happiness

Happiness I have never met a person with stuttering like me. Today I made this reddit account to join this community and for some reason I feel accepted and comfortable for the first time in a while. ...

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commentr/StutterFeb 1, 2025
1 points

Yeah ik that I'm young but I already fear that I will die alone. Not everyone would be okay with dating a stutterer, even less with dating someone with low self esteem and mental health problems, EV...

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commentr/StutterJan 31, 2025
5 points

Maybe for the other guys on here that are young there is hope..but like I said im 33. my looks that I tried so hard to max out are fading with time & I'm not has upbeat ad I used to be. I still feel l...

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commentr/StutterJan 31, 2025
3 points

Having a severe stutter means that you’re already carrying an enormous cross which God probably does recognise. The dilemma between indulging the pleasures of the flesh and feeling good for a bit vs...

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commentr/StutterJan 31, 2025
0 points

Yea they have no idea. It’s easy to look down on people paying for sex when you’ve gotten sex your whole life. Or you’ve never dealt with getting rejected for things you can’t control. I would hones...

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commentr/StutterJan 31, 2025
1 points

I’ve paid for it many times and plan on doing it more. I’ve also have suffered depression and substance abuse because of my stutter. I’m 23 and have never touched a woman sexually in any way besides p...

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commentr/StutterJan 31, 2025
17 points

Oh man I feel you. I'm an 18 yo drug addict and I feel like I'm wasting my teenage times. Sober from opioids for over a year, I do other downers tho so still not fully sober and probably never will be...

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