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I do feel negative emotions about my birth gender, but more than that, it's a general sense of wrongness and feeling like I fit being female more. Certainly not a trauma response to me, and if it is c...

I'd agree with the other user -- my stutter sucks sure, but it's not comparable to the disease that severed my spinal cord. A disease is also generally from an organic cause, like there's something st...

Because there's a majority of stutterers who want to be considered disabled....

Stuttering is not curable… speech therapy can be done but in people like me who got a stutter from brain damage there’s no fixing it and your always gonna stutter still...

I’d argue that there are paraplegics that can be cured using modern medicine and physical therapy. Just like speech therapy works for some stutters but not all....

Stuttering is treatable for most people. How is it a disability?...

To answer your first question, it’s counter productive to the goal of acceptance. There is no cure for stuttering. The sooner that you accept the fact that you are a person who communicates differentl...

Physical disabilities are visible and straightforward to deal with. You put in ramps, get a wheelchair, prosthetics…ect. You get instant sympathy and understanding when people can see your disability....

Counter productive as in what are we trying to accomplish? Do you really think it's the same as bring physically disabled where you can't walk ANYMORE? No. It sucks. Some people have it worse than oth...

Please don't compare stuttering to being physically disabled not being ever able to use your legs again....

IMO, he has an amazingly fluent, clear and interesting voice. Please judge for yourself tho. He also explains why PWS don’t like to hear others stutter. (Hint - it’s all part of the key to reducing...

Well yea, I know I’m physically capable of making all of the sounds. This was explained to me in childhood speech therapy. Science hasn’t thought stuttering was a mechanical issue since the 1910s or ...

You really know all that?? Even the part about articulators?? Cuz admitting that was the key for me - and lots of other ppl in this sub....

SLPs are generally successful at treating the issues they are actually trained to treat. Unfortunately, many have very limited training in treating stuttering and address it as if it’s articulation...

But women who stutter are a minority in that regard...

Honestly I think they’re throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks. Stuttering doesn’t really have a known cause. I did speech therapy in early elementary school. I don’t remember much o...

My brainstorm ideas to get tips for stuttering remission: * [Research](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fIVTx5LyO3bT19Uw8qiNFlefiqUMHcsv/view?usp=sharing): PhD researcher Yaruss et al, researched "**...

I appreciate this and hoped you would weigh in. While doom scrolling and trying to convince myself that kiddo didn't suffer an anoxic brain injury during tonsil surgery a few months ago, I read a numb...

I guess we're just made to feel it all before we can say it all lol. Is there a diagnostic for a HSP?...

>"*80% of PWS can be classified as HSP (highly sensitive person).*" Amazing comment and it's very interesting! I also reviewed [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/1372xp9/tips_to_impr...