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To reply to your link (which I saw before, I love the Oatmeal’s work). Maybe I’ve used the wrong words. I guess I meant content? Not utterly miserable, you know, not wanting to not exist? Happiness is...

I could be wrong surely, but I can’t help but feel like there’s this undertone that if a stutterer managed to use positive thinking to get past their pain and struggles, surely their stutter or bullyi...

Happiness is nice to want and wish for but some of us will never get that happy ending. Sometimes existing in the grey is all we have. Most stutterers have tried many things to remain positive and was...

As someone who has also improved myself immensely like you, I have to say your post is extremely insensitive. Your post ignores the fact that some people are either severe or lifelong stutters who li...

Wow, that is horrible. Porky was one I loved as a kid too, in spite of my stutter. He didn't make me feel self conscious for some reason (similar things normally would). With that said, I don't think ...

I am puzzled by the downvotes on your post and comments. We all share different degrees of this struggle, and those of us who were emotionally wrecked or paralyzed by shame and grief earlier in our li...

I'm just gonna live up to my username. You know what, the OP if fucking right. We should do something and not just mope the fuck around. I mean of course it is on *us* to forgive. Apparently it's a *c...

Oh, I guess all those people laughing at me and doors closing in my face and those lonely nights and feeling ostracised mean nothing? Nor does the hours, days, weeks, and years of work I put in to mak...

Social skills take practice. We only get better at being social by engaging in lots of social activities. If we feel awkward because of our personalities or speech barriers then it's likely we will fe...

I never got put in speech therapy. But I stuttered from before school age. You are never going stop kids being kids. He's going to be made fun of at some point. Every kid is. The stutter is just an ea...

I could have written your post myself. I'm an outlier on this sub from what I've heard. Not many women are stutterers (I didn't know). Attitude helps a lot. Being simple able to say, no matter how slo...

Question for socially awkward stutterers

Question for socially awkward stutterers How much do you think your stutter contributes to your social awkwardness? Completely? Partially? Or maybe you don't think it contributes to your social awkwar...

You are right that toxic positivity means emotional avoidance, pretending everything is fine when it is not, or dismissing someone’s real struggles. I lived that life of misery. But what I am talking ...

"People are not avoiding you because you stutter. They are avoiding you because you are miserable to be around." Thank you. I really need to take that to heart.  I've always felt like I've never h...

It do be like that. Find a hobby to get your mind off life. My hobby of choice is mountain biking It's rd to overthink all my previous interactions and what I should have done differently and all th...

I am sorry you feel unsupported on the subreddit - for what it's worth, you do raise very excellent points. We have many PWSs [in our Discord](https://discord.gg/ruf5BAt) who have extremely severe stu...

Communication abilities may be enhanced by being confident. This can be true. Yet lets not reduce a complex neurological disorder such as stuttering to a reductionist viewpoint of "just be confident"....

I'm too short! I'm too tall! I'm too fat! I'm too skinny! My nose is too big! My nose is too small! It's always complaints about something you can't fix - instead of taking responsibility of wha...

Yep mild stuttering people here with their toxic positivity are hurting this community so much. They have such a mild stutter and then they lecture people with severe stutter how should they act and i...

There is no formula to stuttering or dating, thats incel thinking and it'll do a lot more harm to your ability to be happy, make friends, or date than any disability. The truth is I and a ton of peop...