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commentr/StutterNov 11, 2024
-1 points

I went from 90% stuttering with drooling blocks to 10% and talk all day. My buddy who is in charge of a couple hundred government employees did the same thing. Every famous person who stutters did the...

Emotional ExperienceCoping & AdvocacyIdentity & Disability
Hope & MotivationFluency TechniquesMedicalization / Neurodiversity
commentr/StutterNov 11, 2024
3 points

What a trainwreck. There's no "fix". Therapy helps a lot, yes, but you need to actively work towards that and like anything, you might slip here and there and that's fine. All that "mightier than t...

Therapy & ProfessionalIdentity & Disability
Seeking TherapyMedicalization / Neurodiversity
commentr/StutterNov 11, 2024
-4 points

>Your post will make people feel pretty bad about themselves, especially young adults who don’t know much about stuttering Karen alert. You have no right to be dictating how and what young adults sho...

Identity & DisabilityEmotional Experience
Medicalization / NeurodiversityHope & Motivation
commentr/StutterNov 11, 2024
7 points

Spoiler alert, this is simply not true. Either you did not have an actual stutter or you don’t know what stuttering is. Your post will make people feel pretty bad about themselves, especially young ad...

Identity & DisabilityEmotional Experience
Medicalization / NeurodiversityHope & Motivation
commentr/StutterNov 10, 2024
4 points

Think about how there's so much research being done on the entire trans issue, how there's companies getting paid to hire more of trans people and propagate this agenda of us having rather fluid gende...

Community & SupportIdentity & Disability
Research & ResourcesMedicalization / Neurodiversity
postr/StutterNov 10, 2024
35 points

Why there isn't a solution for stuttering?

Why there isn't a solution for stuttering? Why there isn't a cure for stuttering?...

Community & SupportIdentity & Disability
Research & ResourcesMedicalization / Neurodiversity
commentr/StutterNov 9, 2024
13 points

To me I believe it’s mostly his age. Maybe the lack of stamina brings it out but he also confuses himself mid sentence sometimes. In a way could one take it wrong the other way? I feel like to blame h...

Causes & VariabilityIdentity & Disability
Severity & FluctuationMedicalization / Neurodiversity
commentr/StutterNov 7, 2024
3 points

Yea I’ve noticed exactly what you mentioned OP. Even the word “stutter”, isn’t designated to mean a speech impairment or speech disorder. Which kinda doesn’t leave space for pws in society. Language d...

Identity & Disability
Identity & Self-PerceptionMedicalization / NeurodiversityStigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterNov 7, 2024
1 points

Reality is what you make it. And even the ADA says it can be considered a disability but it’s not necessarily a disability. We can agree to disagree at this point....

Identity & Disability
Identity & Self-PerceptionMedicalization / Neurodiversity
commentr/StutterNov 7, 2024
1 points

I disagree that it isn’t a disability. It is recognized and covered under ADA as a disability. Now, for you if it helps to think it is not a disability but more empowering, you should continue you to ...

Identity & Disability
Identity & Self-PerceptionMedicalization / Neurodiversity
postr/StutterNov 2, 2024
6 points

Do you personally think there ever will be a fix for stammering?

Do you personally think there ever will be a fix for stammering? And if so, what do you think it would be?...

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Research & ResourcesMedicalization / Neurodiversity
commentr/StutterNov 1, 2024
1 points

Afaik, it's some neural connections not happening in the brain. Weird, coz no other functionality of the body is affected, and we're perfectly fine otherwise. It's sad that stuttering is not taken ser...

Causes & VariabilityIdentity & Disability
Neurological & BrainMedicalization / Neurodiversity
commentr/StutterNov 1, 2024
1 points

Afaik, it's some neural connections not happening in the brain. Weird, coz no other functionality of the body is affected, and we're perfectly fine otherwise. It's sad that stuttering is not taken ser...

Causes & VariabilityIdentity & Disability
Neurological & BrainMedicalization / Neurodiversity
postr/StutterOct 31, 2024
4 points

Stutter

Stutter Is stuttering a mental disability or a physical disability. ...

Identity & Disability
Medicalization / Neurodiversity
commentr/StutterOct 31, 2024
4 points

Science knows basically nothing about what causes stuttering. Therefore, all theories about stuttering make sense and can be used to answer your question. It's sad....

Causes & VariabilityIdentity & Disability
Neurological & BrainTrauma & PsychologicalMedicalization / Neurodiversity
commentr/StutterOct 31, 2024
0 points

Since you're a speech therapist now, then you'd know stuttering is not psychological?...

Causes & VariabilityIdentity & Disability
Trauma & PsychologicalMedicalization / Neurodiversity
commentr/StutterOct 30, 2024
2 points

Professional help, so a good speech therapist and a psychotherapist. Regular sport and other activities like meditation to help manage the stress, preferably in a team/group setting to meet people. Al...

Therapy & ProfessionalCoping & AdvocacyIdentity & Disability
Seeking TherapyTherapy ExperiencesMindfulness & Breathing+2 more
commentr/StutterOct 29, 2024
2 points

Stuttering affects about 3% of the world population. Plus, stuttering is a hidden disability. This means that walking past you on the street, no one would know you had a disability unless they interac...

Identity & Disability
Medicalization / NeurodiversityPublic Awareness / Media
commentr/StutterOct 29, 2024
1 points

Now I think it’s fair because we will get rewarded more for struggling. And because of my stutter I know to never laugh at someone with a disability or treat them unfairly so we don’t lose any rewar...

Causes & VariabilityIdentity & Disability
Genetic & Family FactorsMedicalization / Neurodiversity
commentr/StutterOct 28, 2024
2 points

Hello, I am a minister in a church, so this means that I have to speak before people and I stutter as well. It is true that God made the mouth and the tongue but He is not making your life "a hell". T...

Causes & VariabilityIdentity & Disability
Stress & Fight/FlightGenetic & Family FactorsMedicalization / Neurodiversity