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postr/StutterSep 2, 2025
6 points

My experience as a stutterer.

My experience as a stutterer. I am 20M. And like everyone in this sub I suffer from stuttering. I am writing this because currently I am really angry with my myself cuz of the stuttering and that till...

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commentr/StutterSep 2, 2025
7 points

Man, I really feel you on this. Stuttering can be brutal, and it sucks how society still thinks it’s okay to make jokes about it. You’re not wrong that it can feel like one of the hardest social disab...

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commentr/StutterSep 2, 2025
-1 points

Yep there is no comfort if u live a life with a stutter. The only thing that helps is alcohol. The coping that this sub does is causing so much harm. Instead of fighting that the government accepts ou...

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commentr/StutterSep 1, 2025
2 points

Stuttering didn’t directly cause my atheism, but it did make me question how a loving God could give me a stutter that nearly destroyed my mental health, pushing me to the brink of suicide and when I ...

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postr/Stutter_remissionSep 1, 2025
1 points

What are alternative words for fight-flight-freeze response? (that precede stuttering like disfluencies)

What are alternative words for fight-flight-freeze response? (that precede stuttering like disfluencies) I give an example: (A) I don't stutter with my mother, but I significantly stutter with my fat...

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commentr/StutterSep 1, 2025
1 points

Just to play devil’s advocate for a moment… is it safe to assume that you believe lying is wrong? Now, have you ever told a lie before? If so, then you aren’t living up to your own standards either,...

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commentr/StutterSep 1, 2025
2 points

There are better reasons for being atheist, but I get what you're saying. Nevertheless, keep your chin up. You can always improve in all other areas....

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commentr/StutterSep 1, 2025
1 points

I can only speak for myself but whenever im about to be in a situation where i need to speak publically i make a small prayer to god to not embarrass me and as far as i remember i almost never stutter...

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commentr/StutterSep 1, 2025
2 points

Your disability is not a punishment from god, nor is it a blessing. It just is. For some people, praying or meditating helps their stuttering, making them calmer and accepting of it. But if the anxiet...

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commentr/StutterSep 1, 2025
6 points

that’s been my main problem with religion, not necessarily its concept, but nearly all of its followers being moral hypocrites and not practicing their beliefs despite identifying with them....

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commentr/StutterSep 1, 2025
1 points

I don’t always remember to do this. But I noticed it helps my stuttering when I express my thoughts with my hands as I’m speaking. I think it’s some kind of psychological trick? My brain had to speak...

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commentr/StutterSep 1, 2025
1 points

Being high and euphoric kills my stuttering. But at the comedown I'm a nervous wreck. I was on Vyvanse but had to stop, in the long run it made me worse. And, I can't deal with the comedown so I just...

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commentr/Stutter_remissionSep 1, 2025
1 points

I think it's a combination between the subconscious mind: INTERPRETING stimuli + TREATING how to respond to those stimuli under a certain rule or in a certain condition. And over time, stimuli (such a...

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commentr/Stutter_remissionSep 1, 2025
1 points

So stuttering could increase if the subconscious mind interprets "loud noise" as: \- "I need to speak better/perfectly" or "He probably won't understand me correctly" or any other reason. It can even...

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commentr/Stutter_remissionSep 1, 2025
1 points

I tried to put above example (mastering a native language = more fluency) into a model. Example: Before stuttering onset, and even after stuttering onset: Speaking in the native language & ...

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commentr/StutterSep 1, 2025
6 points

I remember one time a priest tried to perform an exorcism on me because I was stuttering, and when I started stuttering he said the devil wasn’t letting me speak, dude had his hand on my throat and ch...

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postr/StutterSep 1, 2025
10 points

how do you stop stuttering (fr)

how do you stop stuttering (fr) honestly, stuttering is such a big problem, most especially when it comes to speaking- and making extraspontaneous speeches- which is what my teachers soemtimes do when...

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commentr/Stutter_remissionSep 1, 2025
1 points

In my opinion: I don't know, but let's say that in 50% of PWS (people who stutter), they stutter more in their native language, while the other 50% of PWS stutter more in another language that they a...

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commentr/Stutter_remissionSep 1, 2025
1 points

I think that negative past experiences might reinforce defenses (like a protection mechanism). And this is refined over a lifetime. My question is then: Other than negative past experiences. What else...

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postr/Stutter_remissionSep 1, 2025
1 points

WHY do some people STUTTER more during loud sound (like in a bar, café), while others stutter less during loud sound? In your own words

WHY do some people STUTTER more during loud sound (like in a bar, café), while others stutter less during loud sound? In your own words https://preview.redd.it/z4t087ugghmf1.jpg?width=759&format=pjpg&...

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