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for a disability it's pretty common. .5% of people are blind, 1% of people stutter....

Stuttering vs normal disfluencies. What's the difference?

Stuttering vs normal disfluencies. What's the difference? **Everyone experiences normal disfluencies. But not everyone experiences uncontrollable stuttering. What's the difference, in your own thought...

In your own thoughts, what are the differences between Stuttering-like disfluencies and Normal disfluencies? (besides the secondaries)

In your own thoughts, what are the differences between Stuttering-like disfluencies and Normal disfluencies? (besides the secondaries) ...

Personal opinion in this question doesn’t matter at all. It is objectively a disability. Accepting that doesn’t make you weak, it makes you grounded in reality....

a few reasons: 1. stutterers who say they're not disabled usually associate "being disabled" with "being inferior as a person", whether consciously or subconsciously 2. stuttering is probably the si...

So then why do some people not classify stuttering as a disability? It also feels like we don't get the usual protections. This will always baffle me....

Unless a stutter is mild enough that it doesn't affect your speech in any significant way, it's factually a disability by definition (see my other comment). It's not really a choice you make...

I mean, it is a disability. At least in the US. The official definition of a disability by the ADA is : "An individual with a disability is defined by the ADA as a person who has a physical or mental...

Mate that’s not right thing to think, you can't compare yourself to someone who can’t walk just because you can’t speak fluently, these have big differences, especially where you think you can park th...

I don't know what he wanted to tell with that video, If stuttering yours is a disability, it doesn't mean you have to park the car for people with disabilities to me that’s sounds a lot crazy, they ca...

Theres a scene in Curb where an able-bodied person parks in the handicapped spot and larry gets out and says hey, youre not disabled and then he stutters. Obviously this is taking it to an extreme bu...

I guess it is a mild form of disability, because the very concept of disability implies some kind of deprivation - for example, a person cannot walk, hear, communicate, etc. In your case, I do not thi...

Have you ever come to a decision that you have realized that your speech is a disability?

Have you ever come to a decision that you have realized that your speech is a disability? I find it difficult to accept that my stuttering left me with a solution that I have to accept that I am a per...

Stuttering and religion

Stuttering and religion I was raised into a typical christian go to church every sunday family so i was well aware of what i was being told. The whole time i would wonder why i had to have this horrib...

I honestly would never do this but that is just me personally. I was a very similar situation as OP( taught swim lessons to 5-12 year olds meeting weekly from once a week to 5 times a week) and I just...

"I’m starting to think of my future and will it ever get better?" \- Yes, the teen years are for many stutterers the worst years in their life, so it will get better than that :) "Will it ever go?" ...

There are people who are both stutterers and ugly though. So your logic is a little bit strange. I'm luckily not in the US and I'd honestly say that fuck US. It seems to be a shithole of the wild ca...

I'm not in the US. In my country, the criteria isn't being able to work a job. Your disability rate has to be %40 to get minimum disability benefits. And disability rate of severe stuttering is %30. B...

Yes, it isn't. Who have claimed otherwise? Many people think in black and white, including this subreddit. They are either needlessly optimitistic or too pessimistic. CBT is a good antidote for this ...

Yeah, I didn't really put it right though, I was just confused by the author's elevation of himself as the only martyr. No, we all suffer in life in one way or another, it's an obligatory stage of lif...