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commentr/StutterJan 11, 2021
3 points

Well I'm married now, and it was something my wife never brought up too much while we were dating. Like anyone with a stutter, after someone gets to know you, its something they overlook. It's only ...

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commentr/StutterJan 11, 2021
9 points

Tinder No issues She didn't care ​ But in all seriousness, weve been together for almost 6 years, living with each other for 5 of those. I dont really stutter around her anymore either,...

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commentr/StutterJan 11, 2021
2 points

Really interesting question ! I cannot speak for him, because each stutterer and relation with a stutter is different. But I can still give you a point of view of a stutterer : On my side, I will f...

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commentr/StutterJan 11, 2021
3 points

Met my GF on Tinder. I stutter pretty hard but there wasn't a problem with the stuttering. She says she stopped noticing it....

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commentr/StutterJan 11, 2021
1 points

So when does singing become an issue for you? Could you sing a wordless song (like those old hymns where people are just basically making sounds)? I've honestly never heard of this. As I mentioned I s...

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commentr/StutterJan 11, 2021
2 points

Everyone is different. I am a person who stutters as well as a speech-language pathologist. I stutter when I sing solo in front of a crowd (bombed many auditions in HS show choir ha) I have severa...

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commentr/StutterJan 11, 2021
8 points

Isn't Europa a moon of Jupiter or smth? Pedantry aside, thanks for sharing your story, a lot of us stutterers need to hear exactly that!...

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commentr/StutterJan 11, 2021
1 points

The rest of the article discusses the different activation profiles of singing vs speaking but well done for finding this counterfactual where *repeating words/phrases* showed more overlap between spe...

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commentr/StutterJan 11, 2021
2 points

Everyone who stutters is different. I know friends who stutter no matter how they vocalize. There is significant improvement in over all fluency due to these factors: • There is now evidence that ...

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commentr/StutterJan 11, 2021
4 points

I met my boyfriend in a gc that had a lot of mutual friends. He’s never really said anything about my stutter. I don’t remember him ever making fun of it, and he’s never completed a sentence before I ...

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commentr/StutterJan 11, 2021
16 points

I met my wife at a mutual friend’s Halloween party. She was having a friend take her picture and I photobombed. Struck up a conversation, stuttered my butt off but she didn’t care. Now we are marri...

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commentr/StutterJan 11, 2021
2 points

To keep it short, stuttering is the source of a lot anxiety and problems. I don't think calling what's effectively a mild to severe disability attractive makes sense. It isn't a trait like an accent o...

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commentr/StutterJan 11, 2021
5 points

I met my girlfriend (now wife) while attending a small festival around Amsterdam in 2012. I'm Dutch and she is Japanese, she was backpacking through Europa. I was doing well and could speak quite flue...

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commentr/StutterJan 11, 2021
11 points

Every guy i’ve been with says its cute. My current bf understands the most about my stutter as he has flaws he’s insecure about too...

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commentr/StutterJan 10, 2021
3 points

Yeah I agree - the fact that it was focused on ‘overcoming’ it reiterated the harmful narrative of being fluent = the end goal of stuttering...

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commentr/StutterJan 10, 2021
1 points

Everyone stutters from time to time. Listen to teachers example. Some stutter couple of times during a class but no one cares. Listen o other people they stutter too. This really helped my self esteem...

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commentr/StutterJan 10, 2021
5 points

It bothered me that he was able to get rid of it so easily. Even with speech therapy in childhood a lot of us don’t get rid of it...

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commentr/StutterJan 10, 2021
5 points

I think wearing a mask would make communicating easier. When I was younger the anxiety of speaking to someone directly aggravated my stutter. The mask is a shield and, I think, lessens the anxiety....

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commentr/StutterJan 10, 2021
28 points

Everything gets mocked. Personally I've never considered it a disability, as I've acheived the same and in some cases even more than my peers. And I consider myself lucky to stutter and, let's say, no...

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commentr/StutterJan 10, 2021
2 points

As a woman who stutters, I feel like I am not taken as seriously. I am already shy and very quiet and my stutter makes it worse. Also, being small doesn't help. Still hasn't stopped me. I would like t...

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