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yeah i'm familiar with this term and i'll try to use it, i certainly understand the idea behind it: "stutterer" basically describes the PWS first and foremost by their stutter. PWS emphasizes the "per...

"Person Who Stutters (PWS)"

"Person Who Stutters (PWS)" Does anybody else use this term an alternative to "stammerer/stutterer"? I've just recently found out that it's even a thing, and I'm wondering how popular it is....

This is such a good reply, and spot on. It's hard but it's our battle to fight, we wouldn't be the people we are without it....

I feel this. It didn't even dawn on me to consider my stutter a disability until I started joining stuttering communities two or three years ago. I always thought of it as, like, bad acne or a big nos...

the amount of times i’ve had people try to police me on calling myself disabled as if it’s any of their business,, should send them this honestly...

the annoying part is everyone will tell you youll get over it when you grow old!! Im literally an adult now!!...

I never believed in God period. Even when I was like 7 years old I thought it's all just stories and fake like Santa Claus. I'm more inclined to lean towards the alien theory above any Sky Daddy. That...

We can actually be pretty *in*visible, was my point. Many stutterers actively hide their handicap. Something like a wheelchair or the white cane of blind people is more visible, wouldn't you say?...

Okay well it’s obviously kind of hyperbole but the point generally stands that on the whole, ours are pretty visible handicaps. But it’s nothing to be ashamed of. We can lead fulfilling happy lives ev...

>Ours are just more visible to the world than everyone else’s issues. Did you write that right? I mean, surely you can think of handicaps that are more immediately visible than stuttering....

Hey! It’s a fellow stutter who was given the old ‘You’ll grow out of it’ pep-talk. I was in therapy for a year or so and they told my parents ‘with his progress he should be fine. Nothing to worry abo...

Having a stutter definitely affects who we are, Who we are is just the sum of our experiences You are your true self. Everyone would be someone different with a different experience of life. While ...

i am an introvert so i don't really talk to much, stuttering made me anxious and it changed me completely it kinda gave me depression...

If you really enjoy being a librarian then go for it at the end of the day stutter can only get better, live your own life you want to live do not let a small thing stop you, I have anxiety about spee...

Def because of my stuttering. Blessing in disguise though because I’m a really sarcastic smart ass when I get irritated. It for sure saved me from issues in school as a teen and at work as a young adu...

I understand your pain cause I have been there also. I am a Christian and I have accepted that as crazy as it sounds, my stutter makes me who I am. God uses our circumstances in crazy ways to either ...

I stopped believing in God years ago, but it has nothing to do with my stutter, I just genuinely believe that he doesn't exist. I'm really sorry to say this but I don't think it's a valid reason to s...

Why has stuttering caused you non belief and not science ? Two things are going on here. 1) nature is random 2) there is no God...

I stopped believing in God a few years back too. My stutter is the main reason but there are others too. The amount of shit that I've had to endure because of my stutter. I don't think there's been a ...

I'm a fellow athiest and I stutter. I have come to learn and accept that God had nothing to do with my stutter. My stutter is simply a combination of a nurological disorder enhanced by social anxiety....