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commentr/StutterNov 10, 2024
6 points

The victim mindset is real but when you accept it it becomes OK. I've learned not to point it out or apologize for my speech and it's helped me immensely. I'm 37 and stuttered my whole life. It's me, ...

Identity & Disability
Acceptance & PrideAuthenticity vs. Masking
commentr/StutterNov 10, 2024
8 points

No no no, you’ve completely misunderstood the meaning of the photo/ this post. The gold gun you see in the photo is a very rare gun in the game Fortnite. This post, as well as the original post isn’t...

Identity & Disability
Authenticity vs. MaskingIdentity & Self-Perception
commentr/StutterNov 10, 2024
2 points

I remember finishing high school hiding my stutter. I only spoke when I knew I was in a phase of reasonable fluency, and here's something that goes against what everyone is saying in the comments: I w...

Anticipation & AvoidanceIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentAuthenticity vs. Masking
commentr/StutterNov 9, 2024
1 points

If you ask me about my stutter I'd say it's bad. But if you ask random people I know, like not very close ones and not the ones I go to class with, they'd be like Wait?? He stutters? Sooo there'...

Anticipation & AvoidanceIdentity & Disability
Hiding & ConcealmentAuthenticity vs. Masking
commentr/StutterNov 9, 2024
7 points

I feel like no matter how hard you try to hide it, if you stutter i'll know it 👀. I wonder if it's like this for other people that stutter too, that theyll hear it immediately...

Anticipation & AvoidanceIdentity & Disability
Hiding & ConcealmentAuthenticity vs. Masking
commentr/StutterNov 2, 2024
0 points

Isn't that reversing cause and effect? In the '90s I heard a psychiatrist talk like this and it scared the #(#$\*$ out of me. This was during the time that the anti-depressant Prozac had reached Taylo...

Causes & VariabilityEmotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Trauma & PsychologicalSadness & HopelessnessAuthenticity vs. Masking
commentr/StutterNov 2, 2024
1 points

Your prolongation didn’t go away, so much as it morphed into the block, also called a covert stutter. If you learn to be comfortable with others hearing your prolongations again, thr blocks will vani...

Anticipation & AvoidanceIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionAuthenticity vs. Masking
commentr/StutterNov 2, 2024
2 points

I don’t think any of us ever get used to it. You just got to accept it, it’s not special, it’s not a novelty and when it’s not a novelty and just a boring part of you people tend to look past it....

Identity & Disability
Acceptance & PrideAuthenticity vs. Masking
commentr/StutterNov 1, 2024
6 points

Hey, when I was your age I would not even consider applying for jobs like that out of fear, you are definitely in the right direction my friend. In the past years I have realized that the only way out...

Anticipation & AvoidanceIdentity & DisabilitySchool & Work
Avoidance & SubstitutionAuthenticity vs. MaskingEmployment & Career+1 more
commentr/StutterNov 1, 2024
3 points

I am rather trying to do the opposite as I get older. I've been a recluse for most of my life because speaking was exhausting and embarrassing for me. Trying to accept myself and break out of that lo...

Anticipation & AvoidanceIdentity & DisabilityEmotional Experience
Hiding & ConcealmentAuthenticity vs. MaskingHope & Motivation
commentr/StutterOct 31, 2024
3 points

You stutter, I do sometimes and I don't speak clearly. I imagine you make up for your perceived weakness with all kinds of pluses...

Causes & VariabilityIdentity & Disability
Severity & FluctuationAuthenticity vs. Masking
commentr/StutterOct 31, 2024
6 points

I don’t like talkative people to begin with. 😆😆😆 I would consider myself someone who talks, only if I have something of value to contribute. Got a nice select group of friends who know my situat...

Identity & DisabilitySocial & Relationships
Authenticity vs. MaskingLoneliness & Isolation
postr/StutterOct 31, 2024
48 points

I hate that I've been so fluent at work lately, now I've set the bar high for myself, again.

I hate that I've been so fluent at work lately, now I've set the bar high for myself, again. This always happens. **Step 1)** Go through a vicious stuttering/blocking cycle. **Step 2)** Come to term...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityIdentity & Disability
Hiding & ConcealmentSeverity & FluctuationAuthenticity vs. Masking+1 more
commentr/StutterOct 31, 2024
2 points

A very sad one too, realizing how easy and smooth everything went, it's sad that I ever thought I couldn't do smth like this before. Despite me actually stuttering (multiple times) throughout the mee...

Identity & Disability
Acceptance & PrideAuthenticity vs. Masking
commentr/StutterOct 31, 2024
15 points

I think the thing to keep in mind is that every person is different, everyone for the most part stutters differently (although there are many commonalities) and therefore what works to manage stutteri...

Identity & DisabilityCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Authenticity vs. MaskingSeverity & FluctuationHelplessness & Agency
commentr/StutterOct 30, 2024
2 points

Me too, I couldn't give 2 shts if it’s perhaps a little patronising, I just want to communicate what I want to communicate and the less I need to do face gymnastics the better....

Identity & Disability
Authenticity vs. Masking
postr/StutterOct 29, 2024
7 points

Will this help?

Will this help? What makes me feel pure rage is the fact that I am completely fluent when I am alone but for some reason my brain cannot do that when I am not alone like ??? Anyways, I was thinking ...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & MonitoringSituational Variability+1 more
postr/StutterOct 29, 2024
14 points

Stuttering nerfed me

Stuttering nerfed me Ever since is was around 12 I began noticing that I have quite a stutter when talking to other people. All though I'm still very young (16) I would definetly say that it has influ...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Feared Words & NamesHiding & ConcealmentOverthinking & Monitoring+3 more
commentr/StutterOct 29, 2024
2 points

This isn’t going to be as helpful, but this one night I took LSD and MDMA, and it literally made my stutter nonexistent, which made me super happy for the next 3-4 hours. Then I thought if I could be ...

Causes & VariabilityIdentity & Disability
Genetic & Family FactorsAcceptance & PrideAuthenticity vs. Masking
commentr/StutterOct 29, 2024
1 points

didn’t have actual friends till the age of 19 when i dropped all the “caring what others think” BS. growing up with a stutter it was actually super hard to make friends but i believe the embarrassment...

Identity & DisabilitySocial & Relationships
Acceptance & PrideAuthenticity vs. MaskingFriendships & Belonging