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commentr/StutterAug 9, 2021
2 points

Just like the joker with his “sorry I laugh” card we need “sorry I stutter” cards to flash ....

Anticipation & Avoidance
Avoidance & Substitution
commentr/StutterAug 9, 2021
2 points

Literally before every time you speak say “sorry I stutter”...

Anticipation & Avoidance
Avoidance & Substitution
commentr/StutterAug 9, 2021
1 points

All of them. I've literally walked into a business intending to buy something, chickened out, went home to buy it online and then wait days for said item. Or rather than walk up to order food, do it v...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceSocial & Relationships
Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentHelplessness & Agency+1 more
commentr/StutterAug 9, 2021
2 points

i do elongate my words to avoid stuttering, but then i end up doing it for too long and slow the rest of these...sorry OP, they don't really make sense...

Anticipation & Avoidance
Avoidance & Substitution
commentr/StutterAug 8, 2021
3 points

I have a stutter and tend to avoid words that I struggle with. I try to conceal it. It’s also evolved over time as I’ve tried to deal with it. I was never in speech therapy so I was on my own. I also ...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & Variability
Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentSituational Variability+1 more
commentr/StutterAug 8, 2021
9 points

These are dumb. Don’t slow down and elongate your speech because I stutter. I’m capable of understanding normal paced speech. I don’t have trouble comprehending anything. I stutter if I eat or rest (a...

Anticipation & Avoidance
Avoidance & Substitution
postr/StutterAug 8, 2021
3 points

the vice on my neck (short poem)

the vice on my neck (short poem) this vice on my neck more like a strangling serpent. Spend my days observing. Not a comprehendible word will make it through the channel most find so navigating words ...

Anticipation & AvoidanceIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionIdentity & Self-Perception
postr/StutterAug 8, 2021
16 points

i stutter all the time and i really need help.

i stutter all the time and i really need help. my name is ghaith I am from Syria and i live in Dubai, my stutter began from as long as i could remember and i really need help. in school when a teacher...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Feared Words & NamesAvoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & Monitoring+2 more
commentr/StutterAug 8, 2021
11 points

Personally tho, I wouldn't like it if others elongated words that I struggled with or changed their speed while speaking but maybe that's just me...

Anticipation & Avoidance
Avoidance & Substitution
commentr/StutterAug 7, 2021
3 points

That's the reason i was so bad after my speech therapy. I had to speak slowly which made me think about my words which made my stutter really bad. I just speak with open mind but sometimes if i have ...

Coping & AdvocacyAnticipation & Avoidance
Fluency TechniquesAvoidance & Substitution
postr/StutterAug 7, 2021
17 points

Any tips for my weird stutter?

Any tips for my weird stutter? My stutter is weird. When someone is expecting me to talk, I totally stutter and that person looks at me waiting so that's why I stutter or when I think too much of wha...

Anticipation & Avoidance
Anticipating StutteringAvoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & Monitoring
commentr/StutterAug 7, 2021
1 points

Appreciate it - I’m in my 50s now. I hope young people with this problem avail themselves of support that is available. This thing really encourages avoidance, isolation and self-loathing but it rea...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience
Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentHope & Motivation
commentr/StutterAug 7, 2021
1 points

thank you for your advice, the whole thing is when i do that, they say they don't need to be involved in the process i just need to slow down and I'm like¿ you obviously don't know what stuttering is ...

Coping & AdvocacyAnticipation & Avoidance
Self-Advocacy & BoundariesAvoidance & Substitution
commentr/StutterAug 6, 2021
3 points

It saved me a few times where I wanted to speak but what I would have said would be stupid. It taught me to have more empathy It taught me that there are many reasons for why something might be the ...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCommunity & SupportCauses & Variability
Avoidance & SubstitutionValidation & EmpathyPropositionality & Weight
commentr/StutterAug 6, 2021
3 points

We have become excellent listeners not by choice. But it’s one of our best traits and people like that. Stuttering doesn’t define you as a person it’s just how you talk. You think clear thoughts and...

Community & SupportIdentity & DisabilityAnticipation & Avoidance
Validation & EmpathyAuthenticity vs. MaskingAvoidance & Substitution
commentr/StutterAug 5, 2021
5 points

I don’t let my friends make fun of me at all and they never have. Anytime I talk to my friends about stuttering their usual response is “we didn’t notice until you told us” (thanks to Avoidance Reduct...

Anticipation & AvoidanceIdentity & DisabilityCoping & Advocacy
Avoidance & SubstitutionAcceptance & PrideSelf-Advocacy & Boundaries
postr/StutterAug 5, 2021
21 points

Am I being too sensitive?

Am I being too sensitive? A friend laughed out loud and told me that I picked a safe job (I am a teacher and it's a very challenging job even if I didn't have fluency issues) when I confided in her th...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCoping & AdvocacyEmotional Experience
Avoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & MonitoringVoluntary Stuttering & Exposure+3 more
commentr/StutterAug 5, 2021
6 points

Well for me it is opposite. mine get worse when I switch to English, cuz it is my second language not the native. I am more comfortable in speaking in my native language and I hardly stutter with it. ...

Emotional ExperienceSchool & WorkAnticipation & Avoidance
Anxiety & Social JudgmentEmployment & CareerAvoidance & Substitution
commentr/StutterAug 5, 2021
1 points

Well tbh i did intensive gym with good diet and i did see the redults in maybe 20 or some days , but when i started practicing those therapy exercises, i did practice for almost 2+months and i was eve...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCommunity & Support
Avoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & MonitoringAdvice Requests
postr/StutterAug 5, 2021
5 points

Can't find a 'suitable' job.

Can't find a 'suitable' job. So... yeah. Been looking at jobs lately and I can't find anything that's not mostly speaking, my stutter ain't bad, I obviously get "those" days when it gets awful, but a ...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceSchool & Work
Feared Words & NamesAvoidance & SubstitutionAnxiety & Social Judgment+2 more