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postr/StutterDec 6, 2025
1 points

Did anyone else only started stuttering right after the covid lockdowns were lifted or because they spent too much time in isolation?

Did anyone else only started stuttering right after the covid lockdowns were lifted or because they spent too much time in isolation? For context: Stuttering was never an issue for me until a few year...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Anticipating StutteringAvoidance & SubstitutionStress & Fight/Flight+2 more
commentr/StutterDec 6, 2025
1 points

What you’re describing sounds more like cluttering to me, than stuttering. Cluttering is more like the brain struggling to pace, organize, and monitor speech output. Stuttering is, at its core, t...

Speech & StutteringAnticipation & AvoidanceCauses & Variability
Repetitions & ProlongationsOverthinking & MonitoringNeurological & Brain+1 more
commentr/StutterDec 6, 2025
1 points

The only “overlap” between stuttering and drug/alcohol addiction is the neurotransmitter Dopamine. Addicting is “craving” that dopamine surge in the brain, and that euphoria that comes along with it....

Causes & VariabilityMeds & Substances
Neurological & BrainStress & Fight/FlightRecreationa substances (e.g. Alcohol, Cannabis)
commentr/StutterDec 6, 2025
0 points

Alchohol and drug addiction are made by bad choices, mental illness and stuttering are things you can't control 9/10 times it's something you're born with or developed over time. It's not anything con...

Identity & DisabilityCauses & VariabilityMeds & Substances
Medicalization / NeurodiversityTrauma & PsychologicalRecreationa substances (e.g. Alcohol, Cannabis)
commentr/StutterDec 6, 2025
2 points

Nah...

commentr/StutterDec 6, 2025
2 points

So is having any other disability. I don't understand what you're trying to say....

commentr/StutterDec 6, 2025
-2 points

I know, I know it doesn't give us any satisfaction, but I feel that the problems we have are no different from those of a mentally ill person or a drug addict....

Identity & DisabilityCauses & VariabilityMeds & Substances
Medicalization / NeurodiversityTrauma & PsychologicalRecreationa substances (e.g. Alcohol, Cannabis)
commentr/StutterDec 6, 2025
2 points

Isn't relapsing deliberately choosing to for example smoke another sigarette or drink alcohol. I never choose to stutter again, I hate stuttering and I don't get any dopamine out of it. So for me it's...

Identity & DisabilityMeds & Substances
Medicalization / NeurodiversityRecreationa substances (e.g. Alcohol, Cannabis)
postr/StutterDec 6, 2025
1 points

Anyone who despite a moderate/severe stutter is charismatic?

Anyone who despite a moderate/severe stutter is charismatic? I feel trapped in my body I don't know how to put it. Everything is possible, for everybody else with a complete working body. There is th...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Feared Words & NamesShame & EmbarrassmentHelplessness & Agency+2 more
commentr/StutterDec 6, 2025
3 points

Simple answer - No...

commentr/StutterDec 6, 2025
7 points

No....

postr/StutterDec 6, 2025
1 points

Are we addicted to stutter?

Are we addicted to stutter? I realized that mental illnesses are talked about as if they were addictions. You're addicted to heroin, you quit, and suddenly you start using again? You relapse. You have...

Identity & Disability
Identity & Self-PerceptionAcceptance & PrideMedicalization / Neurodiversity
commentr/StutterDec 6, 2025
1 points

If you really don’t think it’s stress/anxiety it is definitely possible to develop a stutter in your adult years. Not that likely but definitely possible. Or you could be just talking to fast & not ta...

Causes & VariabilityEmotional ExperienceAnticipation & Avoidance
Stress & Fight/FlightAnxiety & Social JudgmentAvoidance & Substitution+1 more
commentr/StutterDec 6, 2025
4 points

nope completely normal....

commentr/StutterDec 6, 2025
1 points

Completely agree with you. Ive done that for like a year, the past year and saw alot of improvement. I even made a speech Infront of 700 students and teachers. But the struggle is still there. until w...

Emotional ExperienceCauses & Variability
Hope & MotivationSeverity & FluctuationHelplessness & Agency
commentr/StutterDec 6, 2025
1 points

Sounds like you're just too lazy to put the work in. "Life on Delay" by John Hendrickson is a memoir that delivers hard-won, practical advice for stutterers: Accept permanence. Letting go of the "fl...

Identity & DisabilityCoping & AdvocacySocial & Relationships
Acceptance & PrideVoluntary Stuttering & ExposureDisclosure & Telling Others+3 more
commentr/StutterDec 6, 2025
1 points

Id rather die from those drugs than stutter the rest of my life...

Emotional ExperienceCauses & Variability
Suicidal Ideation & High DistressSeverity & Fluctuation
commentr/StutterDec 6, 2025
1 points

I cant it's kind of a habit now......

postr/StutterDec 6, 2025
6 points

How do you feel about this?

How do you feel about this? I just had what I thought was a fairly fluent phone call with a car insurance company, I spoke a bit too fast in places and repeated some syllables. At the end, the call h...

Coping & AdvocacyEmotional ExperienceSocial & Relationships
Self-Advocacy & BoundariesAnxiety & Social JudgmentListener Reactions
commentr/StutterDec 6, 2025
1 points

Some medicines improve the problem but do not eliminate it 100%. In my case Xanax and abilify worked wonders...